Comments on: Hey, guess what? Pigs just flu

By: john xuereb

john xuereb — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:51:09 +0000

I APOLOGISE……..FOR WRITING IN MALTESE……NEXT TIME I COMMENT I WILL DO IT IN ENGLISH…….SORRY BUT I AM BOY FROM RABAT NOT FROM SLIEMA.

[Daphne – You don’t have to be from Sliema to know English.]

By: Kev

Kev — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:22:37 +0000

In reply to kev.

The vaccine rush is on. The Kiwis don’t want to die. The populations within Orwell’s Oceania will survive. Iss, mhux fair!

http://tvnz.co.nz/health-news/h1n1-vaccine-imported-into-nz-2830781

By: Ethel

Ethel — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:45:48 +0000

Marisa – He cannot possibly explain to all and sundry that he has an allergy so under the present circumstances and to avoid the usual paranoia I would suggest that anyone who has a cold and cough should stay away from crowded places.

By: Samira Jamil

Samira Jamil — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:41:28 +0000

I’m visiting the UK at the moment and have been impressed by the general attitude to swine flu here: no hysteria, no mass panic and life goes on as normal. People have been instructed by the health authority to: CATCH IT, BIN IT, KILL IT. Use a tissue when you cough/sneeze, dispose of it immediately and kill the germs by washing your hands.

By: Kev

Kev — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:38:05 +0000

In reply to Antoine Vella.

No kidding Antoine? I think you missed my point. Vaccination saves lives, but when vaccines are ‘bad’ (especially when they have mercury in them, or have serious side-effects), or when they are unnecessarily given to whole populations, the result is that people die who otherwise would not have.

If you think you “really don’t know”, it’s because you don’t. As I have often reminded you, you need a box cutter first, then you might possibly understand me.

By: Kev

Kev — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:32:34 +0000

In reply to Corinne Vella.

Whe I say “It’s been said” it means this is common knowledge. Here’s one early report, but there are several: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-04/uom-afr042909.php

“The virus formed when avian, swine, and human-like viruses combined in a pig to make a new virus. After mutating to be able to spread by respiratory droplets and infect humans, it is now spreading between humans by sneezing and coughing.”

By: Mandy Mallia

Mandy Mallia — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 08:29:51 +0000

In reply to Mandy Mallia.

@H.P. Baxxter – Maybe I should have said “lone men”.

By: Antoine Vella

Antoine Vella — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:54:58 +0000

In reply to kev. Kev, the development of vaccination was one of the great advances of medicine. It has saved millions of lives and protected millions of others from debilitating diseases like polio. I really don't know how you can turn this into another conspiracy theory.

By: H.P. Baxxter

H.P. Baxxter — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 22:25:06 +0000

In reply to Mandy Mallia. Unless their girlfriend is sitting beside them, that is. You naughty boy Baxxter! [Daphne - Careful, or the homosexual men will rush in to claim that yours is a discriminatory remark. Homosexual men eat peanuts too.]

By: Corinne Vella

Corinne Vella — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:56:50 +0000

In reply to kev.

“It’s been said” – by whom?

Avian flu viruses infect birds, not humans. What’s your point, exactly?

These are serious questions.