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SARS didn't do the markets a lot of good - what about Swine Flu Epidemic

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  • tesuhoha
    tesuhoha Posts: 17,971 Forumite
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    1984ReturnsForReal wrote: »
    But it will help the unemployment figures & the Government debt situation...

    I think you should change your name to 1918ReturnsForReal:eek:
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  • perplexed.com
    perplexed.com Posts: 202 Forumite
    Does the mix of avian and swine flu mean that pigs really will fly?:D
    My favourite subliminal message is;
  • michaels
    michaels Posts: 29,229 Forumite
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    perplexed.com wrote: »
    Does the mix of avian and swine flu mean that pigs really will fly?:D

    I'm just avoiding all the WPC's where I work...
    I think....
  • tomterm8
    tomterm8 Posts: 5,892 Forumite
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    1984ReturnsForReal wrote: »
    How come, no matter how hard I try, I cannot wipe out the entire population of the world??

    :o

    I've killed everyone (smug)

    Hint: Try to start on an island - ie madagascar, japan, new zealand (if not, restart). You need to keep visibility and infectability as near zero as possible to start. Sell all your simptoms, don't buy any transference methods. Buy up the basic three resistances ( cold I, heat I, Moisture I), then buy Drugs 1 to 4. Slowly buy the other resistances to level 3. When the region you are in goes orange, buy airbourn and warerbourne.

    That isn't guaranteed, but you need to fly under the raidar. Madagascar and peru tend to be the downfall.
    “The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.”
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  • amcluesent
    amcluesent Posts: 9,425 Forumite
    WHO just announced alert level raised to 4 on a scale of 6.

    We KNOW that the authorities always try and play down the implications of a health scare. It's not looking at all clever.
  • MiserlyMartin
    MiserlyMartin Posts: 2,284 Forumite
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    All these people who have signs of the disease have returned from somewhere else. Surely it is simple, ban all overseas travel be it rail, air, boat, or chunnel. How much do they want it to spread before they do something?
  • Generali
    Generali Posts: 36,411 Forumite
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    MiserlyMartin wrote: »
    All these people who have signs of the disease have returned from somewhere else. Surely it is simple, ban all overseas travel be it rail, air, boat, or chunnel. How much do they want it to spread before they do something?

    What would you eat? Britain imports most of her food.
  • tomterm8
    tomterm8 Posts: 5,892 Forumite
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    MiserlyMartin wrote: »
    All these people who have signs of the disease have returned from somewhere else. Surely it is simple, ban all overseas travel be it rail, air, boat, or chunnel. How much do they want it to spread before they do something?

    Ultimatly, this flu contains strains of avian flu. It is likely that sooner or latter it will be migrating into britain.
    “The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse, Love Among the Chickens
  • Generali
    Generali Posts: 36,411 Forumite
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    tomterm8 wrote: »
    Ultimatly, this flu contains strains of avian flu. It is likely that sooner or latter it will be migrating into britain.

    There's a joke in there along the lines of 'Pigs will fly'. Surely nobody would stoop so low as to make it.

    Where's Mewbie when you need him? Or Nelly for that matter?
  • Harry_Powell
    Harry_Powell Posts: 2,089 Forumite
    Wouldn't it be a bitter irony if, just as house prices bottom at 70% from peak and we buy our FTB, the human race is wiped out by a germ.
    "I can hear you whisperin', children, so I know you're down there. I can feel myself gettin' awful mad. I'm out of patience, children. I'm coming to find you now." - Harry Powell, Night of the Hunter, 1955.
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