So, when is the bird flu going to rear its head and take us all out? nt

[raccoon]

[tigereye]

1. a vet I know who does research in this area told me

that as long as you aren't kissing a chicken, etc., you should be fine. ;)

[LynneSin]

3. Damnit, why didn't you post that earlier

I got to 3rd base last night with a Rhode Island Red.

I'm fucked aren't I?

[Burma Jones]

8. Not if it's just third base

[LynneSin]

9. But there was some tongue action

:shrug:

Rick Santorum would so scold me if he knew about our love

[Burma Jones]

10. So, you have a feather fetish, who am I to judge

just practice safe birding, please.....

Santorum has done so much scolding, it has no impact any more

[MrCoffee]

11. The difference between erotic and kinky is using a feather vs. using a chicken

Terry Pratchett wrote that. it's pretty funny.

[tigereye]

14. you are scaring me, Lynne

[MrCoffee]

2. that's not funny. Superflu is tops of my list of irrational fears.

second is the heat death of the universe.

third is clowns.

fear of clowns is not necessarily irrational. haven't you seen It?

[raccoon]

4. Maybe you'd better stop reading Stephen King.

I know somebody who fears clowns.

They are kind of spooky looking and they never say anything.

[raccoon]

5. The corporate media certainly makes it sound as if it is inevitable

that the virus will mutate and be human-to-human transmissible, and that it will then sweep around the globe, killing everybody who gets it.

[MrCoffee]

6. it's not just bird flu...the next pandemic flu is inevitable.

now i have to go stock up on surgical masks and lysol.

[kay1864]

12. Well, human-to-human transmission IS inevitable...

What's unknown is if it's decades away, or months away. Because geneticists don't know how many bits of its DNA control it being bird-transmissible (living in the gut) vs. it being human-transmissible (living in the lungs).

For example, if it's 30 bits, then that mutation could happen in a couple of months. If it's 3000, then it could take decades.

In the meantime, a *different* flu virus could become "the" pandemic. Avian flu ain't the only one out there that mutates.

:scared:

[PVnRT]

13. Nah, it'll be a Big Crunch

You could start building a spaceship now and travel to the Cosmic Egg before the end, so you can get caught up in it and reborn in the next universe as the new Galactus. That would fucking rock. I would totally eat worlds populated by right-wing asshole aliens.

[Deja Q]

7. Preferable to poverty. n/t