Swine Flu Q&A

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How does it know who are the odd ones?

I'm posting this because there are too many swine flu post in Hacker News. It's still soon to panic.

Now let's go back to startup-related news.

I'm posting this [swine flu post] because there are too many swine flu post in Hacker News.

Ironise much?

PS: yes, that's a word: http://dictionary.reference.com/dic?qsrc=2888&q=ironise

I don't believe you or Dictionary.com!

If you can't imagine the Queen saying it - it 'aint a word!

seriously though, any students got access to the OED online? check it out and give us the official definition, I'm dubious, but could do with a new way of insulting peoples' intelligence =P

As far as I know the OED does describes language and does not prescribe. So it does not have the 'official' definition, because there is none.

The problem is that someone edited the title of my post. It was "seasonal flu kills 36,000-odd Americans every year".

Only 36,000 odd Americans? Does that include the unusual ones? What about the peculiar ones?

Pekosz is an idiot. Where did they find him? Swine flu is killing the young and healthy in Mexico. This is dangerous. They've probably got a few 10s of thousands of cases right now, and a death rate of 1%. By winter, absent a strong vaccination program, we're going to see around 5-10% of the population infected. Do the math for that and tell me you're not worried.

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