PAX succumbs to swine flu outbreak News

reminder to self: find gas mask before October.

I thought i had it a few weeks ago, phoned the helpline but all i got was crackling.

I like how just below the title you indicate that this is coming out for every platform :D

Perhaps people should've been deconhaminated.

All those people hogging the demo pods would've been happy as pigs in mud, and be too distracted to look out for illnesses.

The infected should be (honey) roasted to find out who they could've (meat paste) spread it to!

"Just swill"

Arf

It was like they got hambushed by the virus.

Isn't it "Mexican flu" now, since it's got nothing to do with pigs anymore?

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I like how just below the title you indicate that this is coming out for every platform :D

I'll be getting Swine Flu on the 360 for the achievements though. ;)

47 Achievements. So there's probably going to be a DLC later on. They haven't released a list of Achievements though.

Swine Flu isn't inherently dangerous though, mostly like normal flu - that takes 1-2 weeks to go through. It's only if you have other health related problems that it might become dangerous to the person.

Hopefully next year's event will be bacon unaffected.

Ah...totally unlike regular influenza then. Or any other airborne virus.

Nice to see the Amerry Kans are still fully panicked by anything.

Including a bunch of the Turbine community support team it seems.

I would say most of the western world seems bat shit crazy about this. It seems as harmful as regular influenza which is... WE ARE ALL GONNA DIE... or more, the very weak among us might, in some cases... where there are severe complications, and other illnesses ... maybe... die.

I thought Tom had already had a case of Hamthrax?

The reason everyone is going bat-shit crazy is because it's a virus that we don't have any immunity to, and it if mutates into a more deadly strain, it will kill a good percentage of the world's population.

We are not gonna get any less immune by hiding under a rock.

H1N1 the most overated illness i have ever heard.

Its a fucking flu you aint gonna die. More people die of the normal flu than swine flu and were vaccinated against that shit. This isn't anything to worry about it, hope i catch it can have a week of doing nothing....mind you thats no different to what i do now.

Most people I know, including myself, had it weeks ago....

PAX dropped the ball on exclusivity here.

Get Tom some 'OINKment' he will be fine.

The worry for governments isn't the death toll - it's the disruption to the smooth running of the country brought about by having large swathes of the population unavailable for work at any one time. If even a few percent of the workforce suddenly goes sick the effect is huge. Certain people are bottlenecks - imagine, for example, some bloke who co-ordinates the delivery of petrol via tankers to stations. Then certain stations don't get petrol. Then some people have problems getting in to work even if they don't have swine flu because they can't refuel...and a domino effect comes in.

However, just to quietly usher in the apocalypse, there are reports that birds in Turkey have been found infected with swine flu. It has jumped species again. If we have a further mutation and that new version has the virulence of swine flu and the potency of avian flu, then.....

"It started with the piiiiigs.....never thought that it would come to thiiiis...."

Without trying to sound arrogant, this isn't really a big deal. A number of my friends have had swine flu, and they were either ok after a day or so, or actually didn't know they had it until they had fully recovered.

Good to see a rasher-nal discussion about this.It's a crackling read.

Lol Retroid.

Yeah my skepticism comes from the fact that there are only so many times you can cry wolf. SARS were supposed to kill us, then the avian flu and now this. I just think it's a giant cash cow for the media. I would like to hear more about what the scientists think but it's all "sneeze in your armpit" et cetera now a days, which makes me believe this is not that serious.

There but for the grace of needing to watch my young children over the weekend, goes I. My daughters saved me from the flu for once (instead of infecting me, as they have for the past several years).

scared nerds hahaha