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[hope4wp]

re: WC 100K Post Challenge - You Ready?!

Aren't we always, weren't we always?

Of course, viruses can be spread more easily than ever before, which means more people can be affected, and the virus can evolve better due to the broader host range and selection. That means that there have to be people thinking about what to do if such a case will ever arrive. But as many of these experts earn their money with exactly this, of course they want us to have this in mind all the time and people who are afraid are more happy to spend money for their safety. (I think that's very similar to starting a war...)

Personally I don't worry about some super pandemic. And I'm working in an infection biology lab after all ;-)

Also, few viruses have a cure. What we usually do is get some painkillers and wait until our own immune system gets rid of it. Or we suppress the virus that it can't act anymore, like in HIV infections. That virus we carry forever, and it's the same for example for Herpes.

maybe you can make a cure and sell it to us Arabs....and we will give you lots of money and you'll be rich yayyy

 

[N_LaRUE]

re: WC 100K Post Challenge - You Ready?!

Oh shh stop scare mongering lol

I don't worry about it. I just note it as a possibility and live my life normally.

I just realise that the spread of any 'super virus' could happen fairly quickly these days due to our ability to travel fairly quickly. Keep in mind that last major one was less than a 100 years ago killing about 50 to 100 million people. Known as the Spanish Flu. The main issue with the flu types is that most people will think it that way, still go to work, travel, etc. That's the problem.

 

[N_LaRUE]

re: WC 100K Post Challenge - You Ready?!

"the end is near"

Hardly, there are always those who are immune. Also depends what you mean by 'end'. Humans can disappear tomorrow. The planet and universe will keep going. We are just one point in time in the grand scheme of things.

 

[hope4wp]

re: WC 100K Post Challenge - You Ready?!

Hardly, there are always those who are immune. Also depends what you mean by 'end'. Humans can disappear tomorrow. The planet and universe will keep going. We are just one point in time in the grand scheme of things.

I always used to think as a kid what would happen to the universe after everyone is dead :/ and then I'd get confused and stop thinking

 

[Chregu]

re: WC 100K Post Challenge - You Ready?!

maybe you can make a cure and sell it to us Arabs....and we will give you lots of money and you'll be rich yayyy

I don't work on viruses.

Many viruses include their genes into the DNA of their host. The only way to get rid of the virus then is to kill off the cell. Our body does that, killing infected cells. But it's not always that easy, and if too many cells get killed that's not healthy either. But this also makes it incredibly hard to cure such a virus infection.

Fiddling with human DNA (a cure had to be based on that) is very risky and can be much more harmful than the virus itself. And it easily leads to cancer. So I'm actually glad I don't have to find a solution for those problems ;-)

 

[Chregu]

re: WC 100K Post Challenge - You Ready?!

I always used to think as a kid what would happen to the universe after everyone is dead :/ and then I'd get confused and stop thinking

Nothing. Nothing would happen.

 

[N_LaRUE]

re: WC 100K Post Challenge - You Ready?!

I always used to think as a kid what would happen to the universe after everyone is dead :/ and then I'd get confused and stop thinking

The universe will continue on whatever journey it started. Current models show it being a heat death many billions of years in the future. Some people have issues thinking of things like that though.

 

[hope4wp]

re: WC 100K Post Challenge - You Ready?!

I don't work on viruses.

Many viruses include their genes into the DNA of their host. The only way to get rid of the virus then is to kill off the cell. Our body does that, killing infected cells. But it's not always that easy, and if too many cells get killed that's not healthy either. But this also makes it incredibly hard to cure such a virus infection.

Fiddling with human DNA (a cure had to be based on that) is very risky and can be much more harmful than the virus itself. And it easily leads to cancer. So I'm actually glad I don't have to find a solution for those problems ;-)

Cancer is no bueno when i was in high school my friends mother had leukemia and she died.. It was all sadness around the school.... We had our exams too then

 

[hope4wp]

re: WC 100K Post Challenge - You Ready?!

The universe will continue on whatever journey it started. Current models show it being a heat death many billions of years in the future. Some people have issues thinking of things like that though.

Global warming will kill us sooner than we thought in my opinion

 

[N_LaRUE]

re: WC 100K Post Challenge - You Ready?!

Global warming will kill us sooner than we thought in my opinion

I think it will kill off a significant portion of the human population but probably not everyone. We're too adaptable. That's of course if we don't have a pandemic first.

 

[Chregu]

re: WC 100K Post Challenge - You Ready?!

Cancer is no bueno when i was in high school my friends mother had leukemia and she died.. It was all sadness around the school.... We had our exams too then

My father died of cancer when I was in the last year of my undergraduate course. It wasn't easy.

 

[Shinigami910]

re: WC 100K Post Challenge - You Ready?!

aah nothing much! really! he didn't abuse me in any way....physically/verbally/mentally

Then you should go with a hung, drawn and quartered approach then

 

[hope4wp]

re: WC 100K Post Challenge - You Ready?!

I think it will kill off a significant portion of the human population but probably not everyone. We're too adaptable. That's of course if we don't have a pandemic first.

Or people who work in a lab can risk their lives and make a cure for the dying!

 

[hope4wp]

re: WC 100K Post Challenge - You Ready?!

My father died of cancer when I was in the last year of my undergraduate course. It wasn't easy.

I'm sorry =|

 

[hope4wp]

re: WC 100K Post Challenge - You Ready?!

Then you should go with a hung, drawn and quartered approach then

Thank you!

 

[Chregu]

re: WC 100K Post Challenge - You Ready?!

Or people who work in a lab can risk their lives and make a cure for the dying!

They usually know how to protect themselves, I wouldn't worry about them ;-)

 

[N_LaRUE]

re: WC 100K Post Challenge - You Ready?!

My father died of cancer when I was in the last year of my undergraduate course. It wasn't easy.

Sorry to hear that.

 

[N_LaRUE]

re: WC 100K Post Challenge - You Ready?!

You know. It's Friday. Even though the weather here is crap, we should be a lot happier.

 

[Chregu]

You know. It's Friday. Even though the weather here is crap, we should be a lot happier.

I am happy, I am happy about WP8.1, I am happy about the camera I will soon get, and I am happy to have the greatest girlfriend how lets me shower at her place.

Swipe is great too.

And it's Friday

I almost forgot, I will also get tons of free food today. That makes me happy!

 

[N_LaRUE]

re: WC 100K Post Challenge - You Ready?!

I have a feeling my wife will want this camera to replace the one we have:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Canon-IXUS-...ag=hawk-future-21&ascsubtag=UUwpUvbUpU2499163