/jp/ - Otaku Culture

We won't be anything.

Reality is overrated.

>>2492759
re you referring to that new instakill flu?

But if I was a god, it would be a bad thing for people. I would kill at least half of the human population.

Imagine how much of a sausage fest its going to be once all the normals are killed off.

A smell of smoke sneaks through the window, slowly reaching the nose of a young man. It takes a while for him to notice it, his sense of smell gone weak after enduring his own stench for a couple of weeks.
Finishing what he was doing on the computer, grunting with effort to raise out of the chair. His body resents the sudden movement, as he seizes the moment to stretch out his pale limbs.
He walks toward the open window, only to struggle against it trying to shut it. He has the sudden realization of why the window remains open, even though he hates hearing the busy city outside his room. It won't budge, no matter how much he tries. Not that he has made a serious attempt in the past, but it's too much of a bother.

Sighing, he leans in the window sill. The white noise of human activity that bothers him is no longer there. Hasn't been there for a few days now. Sniffing, he finds the source of the foul smoke. A building going up in flames, a couple blocks down. There's nobody trying to control it, no sirens, no curious onlookers, no chains of buckets filled with water.
Just the foul smell of burning plastic.

He looks at the flames as they dance over the forgotten building. A few weeks in, there will be nothing to mark it was even there. A cold wind blows, moving the orange fire. He thinks of the chances of the fire reaching his block. Maybe he will have to leave his room soon, try to find the rest of the people.
Bored now of the fire show, he walks back to his usual spot in front of the computer. He doesn't want to think about leaving, but if the fire comes closer, the smell will probably alert him. He nods to himself, satisfied with the plan.

Hitting refresh, he finds a few new posts in the board. It has grown really slow lately, but the usual topics remain. There are probably no more than a dozen anonymous left now. He smiles, comforted by the usual sight of the bluish background.

>>2492785
It's not instakill, it's just very contagious and a little fatal.

>>2492832
It has all the features of a Spanish Flu. Last time that rolled around, 20 million people died.

Fuck, that's it. I'm taking the next plane to Madagascar.

This is Jupiter's wrath for not sacrificing enough shit to him last harvest season.

>>2492845
It's 34 trying to fuck with us, bro. Not Jupiter.

http://www.myspace.com/jhkpourtous

what new instakill flu?

anyways, it'd be good to see a reduction of global population. I think overall hourly wages would rise.

>>2492864
New strains of Swine Flu. It's fucking shit up.

Will we actually stand more of a chance of surviving because we dont leave our houses?

>>2492873
Yes, unless your daddy touches you a lot and he happened to pick it up.

>>2492873
If its going to be really bad, probably yes.

>>2492873
Unless it's airborne, of course we would... the less you go outside, the less chance you have of interacting with someone else that's picked it up. So, is this a Japan-only thing or found it's way to multiple countries?

>>2492873
Health "authorities" agreed, don't bother them about it.

>>2492888
Fuck me for still studying. I still have to leave my house ;_;

>>2492888
It's not in Japan, yet. It's in Mexico, United States and Australia.

>>2492902
Ah, assumed it was in Japan due to OP's pic. Luckily, I live in England though I hate this crappy place. Wanted to check out AUS or the US if I could ever get a job and save up enough money.

>>2492888

Japan? What the fuck are you talking about
You should read de news from time to time

>>2492940
That's a picture of Mexico, how do they look Japanese to you?

Fuck, it's hit California first.

I knew all that traffic into Mexico would kill us all! Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck.

>>2492969
Relax fag, wear a mask, blow fans out your window/door to create negative pressure, don't eat any ham, cook your food until it's practically burned, stay away from spics

Usual epidemic procedure
You'll be fine.

>>2492902
Ah, Im really happy that i dont live there. Im really scared about things like this

I wish I had hair like that

I must have sex before I die.

>>2492969
Where in California do you live? This is important.

>>2492963
Can't say I've every seen those weird face-masks used in anything not Japanese (or hospital)-related. That plus they all have black hair, slightly dark skin and he looks like an otaku. And my experience with Mexicans is limited to years ago when I actually watched normal TV.

Besides, since when does Mexico have subways...?

>>2493026

Ha, people think in Mexico there is only fat brown-skinned moustache men with big hats

>>2493023
I live right next to the border and room with a spic named Juan. He likes to go clubbing and arrive early in the morning with some whore he picked up.

How does it look, Doc?

Let's take over the world while doing nothing.

>>2493074
Have you BEEN to Mexico? That's a fairly accurate description.

http://www.who.int/csr/don/2009_04_24/en/index.html

854 cases of the swine flu in Mexico, 54 deaths. 20 cases in the United States so far, 0 deaths.

Overhyped epidemic is overhyped.

>>2493117
It's not an epidemic unless everyone is dead within a single day?

>>2493124
An epidemic is usually associated with millions of death, not a handful...

>>2493124
There's not even 1,000 cases you jew.

>>2493124
No, but its still pretty overhyped. I dont believe that it will kill like half of earths population or anything like that...

>>2493133
Remember that this shit is still pretty new, aniki.

>>2493124

It's not like the epidemic was released "just yesterday"-- the WHO report recorded these cases over the period of a month.

So far, the infection rate of this virus has been less than SARS. Some of this may be due to the efforts of epidemiologists, but I think this is mostly just the news hyping up shit to get ratings.

To put it into perspective, you probably have a higher chance of dying every time you get in your car than you have getting killed by this disease. It's really nothing to get paranoid about imo.

I hope you remember how foolish you were in a month when everyone is dead.

>>2492902
i've heard they found a case in britain too
we're fucked, yay

/jp/ - Potentially widespread diseases/General

>>2493163
"If only I went outside, then I could be dead too..."
?

Also remember that this shit thing even worldwide yet.

i, for one, think the world would be a little more exciting if more people died. I've just never grown out of enjoying the thought of normalfags randomly dropping dead.

>>2493319
Fascinating.

>>2493319
I want to die, but not through fault of my own.

>>2493171
Oh. Yay.

>>2493319
My country is constantly in civil war, hundreds die everyday, it's not cool at all.

If you aren't an infant, have AIDS or are 90 years old, you'll probably live.

It's just a really bad flu for most people.

fuck, i left the house today

>>2493372
But I have all 3 of those traits.

>>2493366
My country is one of the most violent ones and I'm not whining about it.

>>2493405
Violent≠In war
A violent country just means it's filled with idiots, just like you.

Sorry, when the rest of the world appears dead and lifeless, the Madagascans shall spread out over it, killing any survivors they find like us shut-ins out of fear that we might be contaminated.

>>2493380
me too. I had to buy some instand noodles ;_;

>>2493405
scotland?

Just saw the news, it's killing 20 daily it seems.

>>2493422
Killing people is killing people no matter what, faggot.
>>2493434
Worse, Colombia.

Im not interested in this shit before its in my country.

>>2493372
Erm, there's this thing. As with the Spanish Flu outbreak, most of the affected are healthy males between 20-40. Which baffles the mind because they're supposed to have pretty good immune systems.
That's what makes this so potentially dangerous, along with the fact that it's influenza, which mutates quickly and lethally. From this outbreak, two strains are already recognized. The California strain is weaker, but the Mexico strain is dropping ~20 dead per day. It will spiral out of control in a week or two.

Chances of infection are low for now. Just wash your hands often, minimize exposure to big meeting places, such as universities and theaters, and wear a face mask when in public if you know there are cases in your vicinity.

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&t=p&msa=0&msid=106484775090296685271.00
04681a37b713f6b5950&ll=32.639375,-110.390625&spn=15.738151,25.488281&z=5

Not in my state yet. I'm still good.

I hate myself for being such a coward about anything like this.
I REALLY hope that this bullshit doesnt come to Finland

>>2493444
br?

>>2493446

Where on earth did you get the ~20 dead per day? According to the WHO report, between March 18 and April 23, there have been 59 deaths-- and this is without active epidemiological efforts.

I really really doubt we'll be seeing a resurgence of the Spanish Flu.

>>2493466
>In North + South America and Western Europe

Well, humanity had a good run.

This shit will amount to nothing.

They didn't have the measures to control outbreaks in 1918 that they do today. With disease control measures, treatment, hospitals, and not to mention NEWS NETWORKS, people are alot better prepared to deal with shit like this.

People die in Mexico? Not surprising, that country has been turned into a violent, dirty shithole, thanks in part to U.S. drug policy.

>>2493473
The news seconds ago

>The WHO is taking the outbreak very seriously, calling it a "public health emergency of international concern" that has a "pandemic potential."

>>2493430
Yeah, those Madagascans always shut off their ports long before anything spreads there, which would take a long time anyway, because no one ever goes there. Those bastards.

>>2493466
Many 9-13 kids suspects? No more lolis for /jp/

>>2493466
What the hell Europe?

>>2493490

The WHO never gets any publicity for their efforts normally, so they're willing to ride this out and go with whatever the news says. Again, it's a slow news day, people are sick of hearing about the recession, and there's nothing quite like a SARS-scare to boost up ratings.

>>2493487
Source?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/26/flu-pandemic-mexico

This article quotes the WHO report I linked earlier with slightly updated figures, placing the death toll at 81 total.

>>2493466

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

>Colombia

>The Minister of Social Protection, Diego Palacio announced that 11 suspect cases have been detected. Samples of the virus have been sent to the USA for comparisons and analysis and confirmation should be expected in a couple of days

Ah, fuck.
What really worries me is that yesterday this wasn't so widespread. I really doubt we can contain it at this stage, and the infection rate is only growing.
Or perhaps we're being taken over by the sense of pandemic doom. Makes for great news and people tend to overestimate more notable health and security risks. Time will tell.
Anyway, I can't help but feel that giddy sense of global catastrophe.

>>2493521
Source is local shitty hyped news, got a problem with it?

>>2493541
Add ten or more to that number because even our official sources are forged.

>>2493558
I think I know how the news station arrived at the ~20 deaths per day:

-Look! This WHO report released on the 23rd puts the death toll at ~60 in Mexico.
-Well, this NEWER report recently released by the WHO places the death toll at ~80 in Mexico.
-Oh my God... this flu virus must be killing 20 people a day!

Not enough dying.

>>2493466
Fuck, someone better get some of it spread over to Russia, or else those bastards will be taking over the world pretty soon.

>>2493590
Too cold for a flu to survive.

>>2493430
What's something culturally distinctive about Madagascar? I need to go out and buy some of it quickly so I can appease them when the time comes.

>>2493647
Putin as new emperor of the world confirmed.

We only have to worry if Madagascar starts shutting down everything.

>>2493676
Closed ports.

Meanwhile in Madagascar...

>>2493678

B-B-BUT CHINA WILL GROW STRONGER!

Affected countries:
Mexico
USA
New Zealand
UK
Spain
France
Argentina

I live in Mexico and I can tell you, this is no normal flu.
I've never seen a flu that kills you, just to bring you back to life again...
I don't know for how much longer I'll have internet or electricity, but its chaos out there, so who knows. you guys should REALLY avoid populated areas and find some shelter, preferably one with a generous food supply, and wait it out...

>>2493758

That's it, staying in my house for the week.

>>2493758
So God likes playing Pandemic II?

I, for one, welcome our super flu overlords

>>2493760
>>you guys should REALLY avoid populated areas and find some shelter, preferably one with a generous food supply, and wait it out...
Not going to happen. I live in motherfucking Europe

>>2493142

That would be called a pandemic.

>>2493843
If something goes wrong you blame the niggers.

Day 3:

Google news has been down since around 8PM last night. Amazing that there actually was something that moved faster than the media. I started checking it often after my parents called me and told me to leave the state. I could hear the rioting through the phone, I wonder if they'll be ok.

Moving to a rural area was the best thing I'd done. The beginning of the third week of reports said the "flu" was wiping out the population of the western half of the country. The UK was gone, Spain was a warzone. I stopped going to work yesterday to just watch the news before the TVs went to static, doubt I'll need the money at this point.

My roommate was supposed to come home yesterday from his trip, I texted him and never got a response. Now I don't even have any bars.

I'm contemplating whether I should head to that gun shop about a mile from here or not...

Rations should last me another three weeks.

If I don't survive to continue this journal and you discover it I hope you'll live to make this world a little less fucked up.

-Anonymous

>>2493843
>I live in motherfucking Europe
>>2493758
>Affected countries:
UK
Spain
France

>>2493647
So that's its weakness, eh? Well, if it spreads any closer to my country, I'm gonna head north.

>>2493856

But you brought your hug pillow, right?

>>2493760
Do you live in an urban area?

>>2493863
Indeed, Go to Alaska, North Canada, Siberia, etc and you'll be fine.

http://blog.wired.com/sterling/2009/04/practical-tips.html

A call for sanity and how to temper it out. Really informative.

>>2493896
>Alaska

Fuck no, I'm not going near that bitch Palin.

http://www.pigflumap.com/
Check your area.

>>2493858
well then its not even too close. If this actually gets bad here, i can just move to my grandparents summer cottage..its really far away from everything.

>>2493916
>Statistically speaking, adblockers get the flu first.

I laughed heartily. It's an adfarm site, and they're not afraid to show it.

Would be much better if it was sexually transmitted. We all need to have the briefest of contact with someone once in a while in order to get food, but we're specifically trained to go without sex for decades, even lifetimes. The world would be a huge sausage fest, though, because all women are sluts.

>>2493943

I can buy food off the internet, which was packaged by robots, and I have an airlock that disinfects everything before it reaches me. Soon I will have enough food in my greenhouse to neet it out forever.

>>2493943
Hoping to outlive AIDS bro?

>>2493894
Mexico fucking city.
30 million people out there, putting one foot outside and I'm fucked.

>>2493971

And that's just from the gangs, shit.

>>2493971
20 people dying a day doesnt seem like much (ha)

>>2493973
Wait, I thought he was just joking about zombies or something.

>>2493984
But in 1.5 million days, they'll all be dead!

ALL

DEAD

>>2494001
Try 50000.

>>2493984
You do realized that rate rises, right? Just solve the differential equation.

>>2493984
20 are just the ones that stay dead, those trouble me not, but the other ones...
>>2493988
not a joke, RUN DAMMIT

>>2493903
Thanks. I found this very helpful.

>>2493903
>flu has never ravaged whole cities as cholera or the Black Death
Stopped reading there.

>>2494073
Agreed. Fucking Spain gor raped by flu years ago.

>>2494118

They got raped by Moors, too. Fucking Moors.

>>2494125
Well, spaniards were never able to beat anybody that could defend themselves.

Really, they have always been more cowardly than the french.

>>2494247

Cortez was like a real life action hero though!

>>2494272
?

Silly enough, it was the diseases they brought along that killed the natives, NOT the invasion itself.

lol biological warfare

Sometimes I love it when /jp/ is /n/

Shit, Canada got hit

>>2494814

Oh, fuck.

>>2494814

Both in BC and Nova Scotia!

We're fucked, gents.

Someone explain to me what this thread is about right now.

>>2494999
Humanity is pretty much fucked

>>2494998
Head for the hills!
Stock on food and ammo!
This is it people!

>>2494999

Swine Flu is here, it's real, and it's killin' for fun. It might be a government cover up. People who die from it might not stay dead.

>>2495082
OH FUCK
ZOMBIES?
WE GET ZOMBIES?

>>2494999
Media over sensationalizing a minor flu outbreak in Mexico as some kind of super virus that will destroy the planet. Despite the fact people have already contracted it outside of Mexico have recovered just fine with most of them never even being hospitalized. There could probably have been even more people affected who never reported it and just got over it after a few days.

The only reason it's killing so many in Mexico is because their government has fallen apart and it's basically a third world country anywhere not near a major city. Also the whole "affects young and healthy" thing is blown out of proportion because the average "healthy" person in Mexico is about equal to a homeless American person.

>>2495093
Yes, the time has finally come. Fortunately, we have years of experience in these sorts of things.

>>2495116
Wow. I have read bullshit before, but this here is Grade A distilled BS.

hahaha owow in exactly 4 weeks nobody remembers this hyped-up bs anymore, just like always

>>2495116
Holy shit, you sure are stupid.

hf with your martial law amerikkans

Sure is /fit/ in here.

I had it last week. No big deal at all. I was basically really sick for one day, and then the next day it was gone.

Then again I'm a pretty fit young man who doesn't live in a third world country.

>>2495309
Fascinating, ZUN.

Day 5:

..The power actually went out once since my last entry when I said they had flickered a couple times. I'm concerned it'll go out completely soon. That'll take out a lot of my rations.

Day 5 Part 2:

Thank god I went to the gun shop.

After I wrote my entry yesterday I figured I'd try to make a trip to the Meijer since the trip to the gun shop went so well. I was stunned to find people there even after there wasn't a soul around when I ventured a further distance. After I parked I got out to see if this person standing in front of the store's door was ok. The mothefucker LUNGED at me. They were so slow about it I backed up a couple paces and saw half of their face was gone. Thank god for Left 4 Dead because I just popped two in the head, got back in my truck and fucking left.

Of course there are "zombies" for lack of a better word. As much entertainment as we get out of that particular media karma just needs to step in and give us a boot in the ass.

I'm so bored of sitting here. My roommate that went to check on his parents never came back, the one on the trip probably won't be coming back.

I may pack up some stuff and start trying to head north. I might actually run into people. I can't imagine if I've already run into one "zombie" there won't be more popping up and I don't want to deal with it alone.

>>2495309
>ZUN!bar
>fit

>>2495309
You do realize viruses don't last one day, right?

>>2495213
How does I forget about mutating virus?

Chances this will effect my school, home, or social life: zed

If you dont have sex you are ok.

Once again the superior specimens of humanity that are us virgins will survive.

I'm worried about Chardo and all of our other /jp/ Mexican posters.

Hopefully they don't get the Swine Flu.

Fuck this thread. As a hypochondriac who recently got sick I really didn't need to hear about this shit.

>>2495448

It's only a matter of time before you get sick.

nothing is going to happen

they're blowing this out of proportion

>>2495448
I had an allergy just from hearing the news, being an hypochondriac sucks, but just take it easy bro.

>>2495500
Psychosomatic reactions are not "allergic." It's all in your head.

>>2495527
I hope that's true, but my burning skin says otherwise to me.

>>2495539
Your mind can make you sick. Endless anxiety causes a whole host of nasty problems for your body. Stress isn't good for your heart, pancreas, or other meaty organs.

>>2495556
Then I'm fucked, and the fact that I just realized that fucked me even more.

I read somewhere that drinking alcohol helps.

I swear to God I'll never let myself get infected!

>>2495639
Well that's stupid