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Come on Energyralph, make a swine flu pun so far off the mark as 'the aporkalypse' or 'you should rub some oinkment on that' it comes out as Pigfluenza or Trotter AIDS.
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Sure there is. If a Jew or a Muslim contracts it, they may face eternal damnation. Now try and tell me Yhwh doesn't have a sense of humour!
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You know what. I think newspapers and radio shows and all the rest of it should prove that they know what a 'pandemic' is before they use the word, and that every instance of its use should be accompanied by an explanation. It seems to get batted around as being one up from an epidemic, when the two don't actually correlate to each other at all. A pandemic of swine flu could mean simply that in four different countries, one person catches the disease from another. A pandemic could mean that eight people out of the global population got sick, as long as they all got sick in different places. It could be pandemic without being epidemic anywhere. In other words, we're back to what we already knew, which is that it's a load of flapping about nothing.
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Phew. Panic over everyone. The well respected medical expert Michael O'Leary has said that Swine Flu is only a risk for slum dwellers.
I personally like to take all my medical advice from owners of low cost airlines. I had a good conversation with Stelios Haji-Ioannou the other week about my piles.
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quote: As you are no doubt aware, the World Health Organization has increased its pandemic alert level to phase 5, signaling that they believe "a pandemic is imminent and that the time to finalize the organization, communication, and implementation of the planned mitigation measures is short” (Source: WHO). Enterprise Continuity is taking this escalation very seriously. We have activated our Infectious Disease Response Team to monitor the situation and to prepare for the potential need to implement containment activities to protect our employees and help slow the spread of this disease within our facilities.
I didn't even know we had an Infectious Disease Response Team.
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We had an email from HR asking all heads of departments whether anyone had been to or come back from Mexico in the last ten days. My boss sent one back saying no, but that I had eaten an enchilada three days previously. (that old gag again, I've been doing well out of that at the moment)
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I think the disease team covers both. But to be safe, I'll find out if we also have a virus team -- if so, I'll let them know they've assigned the wrong team to the problem. As usual.
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