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Posted: April 29 2009, 12:51 |
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Today's depressing news topic was that the 1st confirmed swine flu death in Texas occurred. The person(I think it was a baby/child) was not disclosed by the CDC nor the location. But since the only confirmed swine flu victims in Texas were in San Antonio, that kind of narrows it down. Appx. 80 miles south of Austin. Oh well, what to do? All the handwashing in the world won't stop it. Only a strong immune system and drive to live can win, unless the medications are made available fast. I'm not afraid. In fact I wonder, a month or 2 ago I got on here with nothing to do, as I had a respiratory infection(which could have been the flu, I did have fever)and was excused from work that week. I wonder if my immune system was boosted by that. Stay alert and stay inside Tubes...sorry, Tubularians.
About 6 months ago, out of pure boredom on my night shift job, I discovered a new online game and played it, and wondered all the while "Is this evil, am I doing something bad by playing it?" The game was called "Pandemic 2", the idea being to pick either a virus, bacteria or parasite then manipulate certain variables like the starting point of the disease(Madagascar being the only way to win) and earning points, then spending those points on making the disease spread before borders could be closed, transit stopped, schools closed etc. This scenario is playing out just like the game. Verbatim. I know thousands of people played the game, I saw massive high-score lists. Whoever wrote that game obviously knew what they were doing and knew a lot about diseases and microbiology. I quickly grew bored of it since after you won what was left? After that it was a worthless game. But now I wonder. I feel guilt and remorse for having played the game, now that it is becoming a reality. I can only hope that the game has been banned on the internet. If it has not, it should be, be damned the rights of whomever wrote/designed the game. Feedback? Am I a bad person for having played the game?
Jim
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We raise our voices in the night
Crying to heaven
And will our voices be heard
Or will they break Like the wind
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yo jim no you are not evil! governments have been tinkering with germ warfare for centuries, nerve gas, blood agents, gulf war syndrome from exposure to dirty bombs made from spent nuclear weapons! this flu is another example of natural attrition,deb 