Al Qaeda hit by Black Death fear

[VikingHumpingWitch]

There are days, and today is one of them, when the thought of most of the population of the planet being wiped out by plague doesn't really seem that bad. Particularly if it starts in the Dubai office of my company.

[radge]

ahahaha yeah it can seem quite appealing sometimes

[yord]

the worlds a beautiful place , its just people fecking it up

[newyorker]

Jan 19, 2009 16:39:57 GMT yord said:

the worlds a beautiful place , its just people fecking it up

The people are the most beautiful thing about it.

But there are f**k*d up people as well.

[sweet soul]

So, why did u mention China Tarrant ?

[VikingHumpingWitch]

Well if pitching up at my metaphorical door with a tender due in one hour and a document in pdf form requiring extensive amendment, including of embedded pictures, doesn't merit a large dose of the bubonics then I daren't think what would.

[limeylily]

Has an aid collection point been set up yet? ;D

[tarrant]

Jan 19, 2009 16:48:49 GMT sweet soul said:

So, why did u mention China Tarrant ?

You mean this:

Jan 19, 2009 12:23:38 GMT @tarrant said:

Can you imagine what will happen if this is put into the populations of India and China?

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[sweet soul]

Yea that

[puffin]

I read it that Tarrant was saying how serious it would be if it happened in a country with a very large, dense population with many poor areas...such as India or China.

[tarrant]

Jan 19, 2009 17:16:07 GMT sweet soul said:

Yea that

Jan 19, 2009 17:20:15 GMT puffin said:

I read it that Tarrant was saying how serious it would be if it happened in a country with a very large, dense population with many poor areas...such as India or China.

Exactly.

Given that China and India control much of the world manufacturing now isn't going to help any economic recovery.

[sweet soul]

Oh.

[cathy]

The horror disease, which killed 25 million people in medieval Europe, is understood to have been found in a militant’s body dumped at a roadside.

Let's hope they don't decide to leave parts of an infected body somewhere in India, Europe, the USA, Australia, or some other place they think of as enemies of Islam.

[lawrence]

Don't get too excited about this. Bubonic plague occurs and an infection here or there is nothing new. For people living in squalor in caves it may be a worry but otherwise .........
Some facts..
www.medicinenet.com/plague/article.htm

[Libby]

As long as they leave the body parts in a developed country, there will be enough antibiotics to avert a disaster! If treated there is no risk of a pandemic.

[cathy]

Yes, but it wouldn't be pleasant!

Also, it would be extremely bad news in some parts of the world if it was allowed to go untreated.

[radge]

maybe the world needs it?

[Libby]

I agree cathy, it wouldn't be at all pleasant and untreated could result in mass loss of lives.

But radge what would a mass wipeout (because untreated that is what might happen, major loss of human lives) achieve in the World other than less mouths to feed?!

[yord]

"there will be enough antibiotics to avert a disaster! If treated there is no risk of a pandemic"

Your presuming , and I would suggest wrongly , that the powers to be wouldnt apreciate a pandemic. Of course if they could provide employment, feed and shelter the population, it would blow that theory right out of the water. As they cant provide employment and as the UK is total relient on imports to feed its population , which are going to increase in price to the extent of a tin of beans being the equivilent price of caviar, what would you suggest a government does when people are rioting on the streets after losing homes, savings and unable to feed themselves ?

[yord]

start printing money ? Yeah right, thats inevitable which will only increase the price of imports once again