WE'VE GOT THE FIRST DEATH IN THE USA FROM THE SWINE FLU!!


...Of course, it was a Mexican toddler who was transported to the US to be treated and died here. Not an American citizen who caught the flu in America and died.

In other words if your any other ethnic group besides hispanic I wouldn't worry about it.

I hate how this story's been hogging the newspapers lately

Sheesh, don't worry about it. Everyone is too fucking paranoid about this flu.

I'm still scared.

I'm gonna start actually using the alcohol gel at work LOL

Well, it's true that it's not worth panicking over, but don't discount the possibility of this being something serious.

As long as people are careful, things should be fine.

Flagg, you bastard! D<


Urg, I thought I wouldn't have to deal with it, since I live in Florida. x.x It seems to be spreading rather quickly, though. I honestly don't know what to believe anymore.

You should definitely take more precautions than usual, but don't be scared and don't go overboard. If you use good hygeine you probably won't get it, and even if you do get it, you'll probably be fine.

... you poor bastids. welp, i got lucky and escaped the Swine Flu.

According to a quiz I did on Facebook, I'm gonna get Swine Flu and die, but it won't be my fault so that's ok.

Is there a chance that this virus infects Hispanic's more so than any other ethnic group. The majority of the cases in the United States have been mild (I don't know about the ethnic groups over there), but it seems like the Caucasian's get over it and don't suffer very much.
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LOL. And I'm going to survive it. And light people on fire. XD

I should say, however, that there is no such thing as a disease that truly hurts one race more than another! Yes, how hard a disease will hit you can be determined by your genes. However, races like "hispanic" are defined by where your ancestors lived or the genes for their skin pigment, not by lung cell receptors! Something like sickle-cell trait (resistance to Malaria) may only be common in people of African descent, but many "white" people carry sickle-cell trait from earlier interbreeding. Whether you are white black hispanic or monkey is still not determined by your ability to get sick, and to attribute such things to race is the number one lie that perpetuates the idea of "racial science", a sad euphemism that was responsible for everything from American slavery to the holocaust. I normally love science (I'm going to be a med researcher myself), but people who think that they are geneticists because they are racist should never be allowed to influence medicine, or else they will kill whoever they want and claim that they're being all sciency. According to some, the gas chambers saved lives because jews did nothing but kill. Do hispanics deserve the same fate because members of their race were unlucky when a new disease struck? This is not science, and never will be.

Just saw a story on how several hundred students have possibly caught it in New York:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090428/ap_ ... ine_flu_us

And allready members of the tin foil hat brigade are saying it's part of "the plan"

The only way I would even bother being afraid of Swine Flu is if this happened.

Regardless of how common a gene is in a racial group, races are defined by appearances and origins.

NOTHING MORE!

How can you argue that there is any validity to the idea that races are genetically simmiler when, in a single "race" there is still infinite genetic variance? And that variance is 100% absolutely irrelevant when it comes to the genes that affect more than skin tone. Is flu-survival rate linked to melanin levels?

What people are trying to do is assign whites hispanics and everyone else into into groups with set, unchanging survival rates rather than see the facts that are clerly laid out before them. Mexico has the most flu, so it has had the most deaths. Plus, there is inferior medical treatment in Mexico and, because Tamiflu is obsolete to treat the common flu, it took a week before anyone was getting the proper medicine. All of those facts explain the statistics, so the existance of alternate theories can only exist to prove peoples own ideas, like that hispanics are inferior. Nazi Germany was simply the last time that it was mainstream to believe in "racial science". It's modern comeback is not new genetics, but disguised blind hate in a masquerade that uses heavy enough terminology to trick a fair amount of the public.

Perhaps a gene commmon in mexico does lower resistance to the flu. Is it a gene decided by race? No, as hispanics are all over the world, and people in mexico city may be mostly hispanics, but it does not work both ways; most hispanics are not in Mexico city right now. Genes are dispersed by location more than anything else, and selected in accordingly. The spanish flu hit the US hardest (I think, but am not sure), so a gene may have been selected in that helps against this flu. But that was natural selection, which is caused by reproductive success, not a magical talking faerie gene which grants its protein upon you based on the color of your skin and how much it wants to be your friend. For all I know a bad gene is in Mexico because of genetic drift. But unless you can find that gene and tell me what it is, don't expect me to take you seriously when you make claims that are so amazingly unlikely.

Speculation may seem like the heart of science, but taking speculation seriously without any evidence suggests an alternate motive. I may be breaking Goodwins law a million times over, but it's true that the Nazis are the most powerful organized body in recent history who would have accepted race as a scientific reason for disease. Why? Because they kicked out most of their good scientists on account of their race. Let's not be so quick to make judgements as the possibility of a panemic looms overhead. In fact, how about we never make such judgemnts about race, ever?