drinking and swine flu

[squishtoy]

I'm drunk at my friend Jem's house with over a dozen of my best Mass Comm friends, and huddled in a room reading up on the swine flu outbreaks, and feeling this sense of foreboding. There are a few movies running through my head right now, and they all involve a sense of doom. I'm telling myself it's the alcohol talking, but this whole thing's come

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[latentfunction]

I found a citizen's guide to pandemic preparation online, or something else with some ominous name, and it's a little worrying, yes. Maybe a lot worrying.

[squishtoy]

I read up on handwashing. Honestly, what are we without the internet?

[a1icey]

don't worry- since everyone spends a significant portion of their time alone in front of computers these days, pandemics are extinct. unless you live in manilla, or mexico city, or mumbai...

lol

[squishtoy]

You must hate M-letter countries. :(
Hopefully we all panic ourselves into immunity.

[a1icey]

i was kidding, i presume you live quite near manila?

[squishtoy]

I live in it! Metro Manila at least. 10 million sitting ducks, what up Tamiflu.

[helgarr]

I got nervous like that last time bird flu got big. But this whole apocalyptic thing never started. Felt very anti-climatical but I got through. Maybe that's why this time around I'm not really worried.

[squishtoy]

Those bitches better contain this shit. I can't have people dying right now. That would be so selfish and 1918!

[postingwhore]

My favourite part about this is that we were just talking about the possibilities of this last week in my emerging viruses class. :D

[squishtoy]

IT COULD BE LIKE 28 WEEKS LATER OK.