Avian Flu?
Any of you guys worried about the Avian flu?
Over here in the States, the government has quietly released a warning pamphlet recommending that families prepare to stay in their house for up to four months, stocking up on food, water and medicine... expect schools, day-care and work-places to be closed.
Kinda scary. I think I'm gonna stock up though... I'd rather look silly in the supermarket by buying lots of food early and be wrong, than not prepare and end up in a scramble for the last box of lard and bottles of water when/if the panic hits.
Anything like that going on in the UK/Europe?
(At least America lets me buy a gun for the house in case the shit really hits the fan :) )
Andrew
Over here in the States, the government has quietly released a warning pamphlet recommending that families prepare to stay in their house for up to four months, stocking up on food, water and medicine... expect schools, day-care and work-places to be closed.
Kinda scary. I think I'm gonna stock up though... I'd rather look silly in the supermarket by buying lots of food early and be wrong, than not prepare and end up in a scramble for the last box of lard and bottles of water when/if the panic hits.
Anything like that going on in the UK/Europe?
(At least America lets me buy a gun for the house in case the shit really hits the fan :) )
Andrew
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Is it really that much of a concern in the US?
I mean stockpiling food for months on end in case they have to be locked in their houses for months, sounds laughable.
Probably the same people who said it was the end of the world when it was Millenium Eve and every computer/clock etc was gonna be broken when it hit 12.
Sorry to say but does sound like a totally over the top american response
Still more chance of getting hit by a hijacked plane on your way to work than dying of bird flu.
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Put Lemsip powder or Day Nurse on your bird table instead of bird seed. Obviously, you'll be better putting out Night Nurse for the owls.
Also, instead of hanging up bags of nuts, put up bags of Tunes or Lockets for the birds to peck at.
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Cornishdavy..is that you?
There aren't any chickens around my way. Went out to eat on Monday and the restaurant was only serving mutton, fish and prawns. The nearby chicken stall is most worrying: all his stock has turned into fish!
I would go for Lemsip, as budgies usually sleep during the night IIRC. So Night Nurse wouldn't be of any use.
Yeah, my local dhaba has gone the mutton/fish way too. It's only the big places that are serving chicken it would seem. Went to TGIF the other day and they were serving chicken dishes. We had a couple of 'em partly because we hadn't had chicken in ages and partly because we were quite drunk to care. :D
Bytes:Chuntey - Spectrum tech blog.
and still no aids epidemic, that?s strange
nevertheless the hygiene institutions were analyzing the old documents from the times of first and second world war to find out how people were digging the mass-graves back then, to be prepared for case of great epidemic :lol:
this I call panic
[ This Message was edited by: de Vandemar Croup on 2006-03-29 22:21 ]
true is that in these countries (also in japan) is the problem to speak of it due to social and other taboos - this is making it impossible to solve or supress
but we speak of aids for 18 - 20 years already and it?s beeing here longer than that
but you can?t rely on my calculations, might beeing underestimating view on a problem
It's being called the silent epidemic or something. And India is at the recieving end too. According to the UN, by 2010, India may well have a staggering 20 million AIDS cases. Current projections are at 5 million, which is by no means a small number.
You are right, vandemar, more than the avian flu it's AIDS that's silently spreading all over. But the avian flu has the potential to be a dangerous epidemic if it were allowed to continue unchecked, and therein lies the worry.
Incidentally, I read somewhere that every so and so years, the world is hit by a deadly epidemic - some sort of vicious cycle. We are long overdue for one it would seem. Avian flu has all the trappings of one.
Bytes:Chuntey - Spectrum tech blog.
I agree it sounds laughable, but believe it or not the Americans tend to tone this sort of stuff down... The advisory pamphlet was released on the quiet, and there's not a big fuss being made, but government officials are mentioning the possibility once in a while...
After all, before Katrina hit, they didn't make a big fuss about evacuation. They put out the warnings and that was that...
There are lots of valid american stereotypes... blowing this kind of thing out of proportion is not one of them.
If they suggest stocking up on food and water, I'm inclined to believe them... and I'd rather do it before the panic sets in (if/when)... Better to look silly and waste some food than risk not having the supplies if the shit hits the fan.
Andrew
Some nutters over here when we had the petrol protests were going into supermarkets to stock up just in case they were stuck in their house with no petrol in their car for days on end !
Bird Flu has hit a lot of Europe but there havent been huge deaths from it and i dont see people stocking up on food etc. I just personally think its a very over the top view. If bird flu was killing 1000's then fair enough but theres much more chance of getting hit by a bus than there is of getting bird flu so should we stay in and avoid roads ?
Are you sure this leaflet was produced by the government? and not the local wall mart?
or some burger chain in competition with KFC?
I heard large doses of vitamin C can affect it??
Yeah - but that means eating fruit.
be warned, i have reason to beleive there have been some untested remedies suggested here, having recently took the precution with a friends budgie (he sneezed)we proceded to give him hotlemsip followed by some vicks vapour rub on his beak, the budgie is now lying on his back and beginning to smell (not of vicks!).
Isn't there a part in revalations about the birds falling from the sky? or is it nostradamus?