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This could get ugly in the next few years, though to be honest, I think a large world wide pandemic might actually be for the best (assuming there is a large reduction in human population). Morbid, but overpopulation kills everybody and I honestly believe that mankind needs to be reminded, from time to time, that mother nature is the one in charge.

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I don';t want to be largely reduced. I got a heart condition and trust me - I do respect that Mother Nature is in charge

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maybe that was the cough I had for a week or two, glad I didn't really get sick though (never really do)

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Wiccan_Seeker said:

I went to the doctor and he proposed testing Tamiflu on me to see if it was effective with this particularly nasty strain of influenza.

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Wiccan_Seeker said:

Why isn't this all over the media?

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I dont know about how things work across the big water but here we have drug reps pushing experimental drugs to doctors who in turn push them on us, many of these drugs also kill people

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> I don';t want to be largely reduced.

I don't want to either, but would surrender to nature if it means mankind as a whole can continue to survive. If nature reduces the human population by 90%, a whole lot of our problems go away, at least for a few hundred years or so.

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Well if you're with that 90% i'm sure your problems will go away

There's survival instinct too, many people who think they will have little difficulties letting go of life hold onto it most tenaciously once they're on their death bed. We have the luxury of armchair philosophizing, but our whole outlook and attitude on life and death may crumble to dust when Mother Nature puts us on the spot.

The best way to reduce the world population would be birth control and opening the door to legal euthanasia worldwide. Something like the Spanish Flu, in the 21st century, would be a nightmare of suffering that would traumatize those left behind. Imagine that you and everyone you know has lost 9 out of 10 family and friends over the same short timespan. We'd be cast back to medieval times.

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they're finding the resistant strains in the people that have
never taken the drug, not just in those that have

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it was released around 2000, sinc then there's been several
revisions to the literature to reflect new findings, just because
it's in wide release doesnt mean it's not still experimental.

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Its not a wonder drug, but at least for some it does what its supposed to do. I hope i'm one of them yet again

The nice cream white/yellow capsule has a nice placebo effect on me too, so that alone ought to boost my immune response

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understand that it's your body that fights the virus, the drugs treat symptoms

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I understand that full well..

The drug fucks with the virus' ability to reproduce for the 5 days the treatment lasts, and the idea is that this containment of viral activity will give your body a better shot at producing an immune response to wipe out the virus itself. Because the body is under less intense attack, more energy can be spent on the counterattack.

My next generation of antibodies is on the drawing board