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2009-02-10 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Panasonic calls people home over flu fear

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Posted by Anonymoose 2009-02-10 17:22|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Do they know something we don't know?

Posted by Anonymoose 2009-02-10 18:32|| 2009-02-10 18:32|| Front Page Top

#2 Sales are down and ex-pats are expensive?

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2009-02-10 18:57|| 2009-02-10 18:57|| Front Page Top

#3 China is already in a quiet panic about H5N1. It is slowly and methodically increasing its endemic territory, and sporadically coming out and attacking just a person or two.

By comparison, if it was in the US, on one day, a person in rural Utah, two days later, someone in Boston. Two days after that, one on the bayou in Louisiana. Then one in downtown Seattle. The US Department of Health would be freaking out.

The zinger is that the H2H mutation might be almost mathematically derived, with each source like alarm clocks, and all set to go off at the same time.

Echoes of "The Andromeda Strain".

Posted by Anonymoose 2009-02-10 19:14|| 2009-02-10 19:14|| Front Page Top

#4 well December 2012 is coming so maybe they are on to something...it would go right along with all the other cheery news that is out there. I feel a whole lot better after I go to church.

Posted by remoteman 2009-02-10 19:29|| 2009-02-10 19:29|| Front Page Top

#5 If it strikes China, where am I gonna get my plastic crap, Melamine-laced baby pacifiers and lead-based children's toys?? Oh noes!

Posted by Frank G 2009-02-10 20:44|| 2009-02-10 20:44|| Front Page Top

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