Archive for the 'Coincidence?' Category
She Loved Them to Death at Ray’s Hell Burger
May 6th, 2009Oh, brother, the Christians are going to love this. Look at the order number on the table. 42. I know, I know. It’s all a coincidence; just like when they covered up references to Jesus and photographed Obama so that he appeared to be speaking in front of a pyramid. Anyway, here’s what’s going to […]
Bank of England Carried Out Pandemic Flu Exercise in 2006, “With Eerie Prescience”
May 4th, 2009Via: Independent: With eerie prescience, the City tracked a pandemic using a ‘bird flu’ scenario in 2006 – leaving it better prepared for the effects of the swine flu outbreak. … UK financial regulators have rehearsed how a pandemic like the swine flu, now spreading from Mexico, will affect Britain. In the most detailed disaster […]
“It was nothing malicious, Oxford believes, just some flu vaccine research that broke out of containment.”
May 4th, 2009Via: NPR: The question, then, is how nasty the virus will end up being. Professor John Oxford at St. Bart’s and the Royal London Hospital says there’s some reason for cautious optimism. “In one sense, it’s one of the mildest shifts because most people on the planet have got some memory, have come across H1N1 […]
Coral Cross: The World’s First Global Flu Pandemic Alternate Reality Game; But Just Weeks Before The Scheduled Launch, An Extraordinary Coincidence Occurred…
May 2nd, 2009“The flu crisis in now real. And so is Coral Cross.” Via: Alternate Reality Gaming Network: Dystopic literature often turns to the threat of pandemics for inspiration. From Albert Camus’ La Peste to Stephen King’s The Stand, authors create global pandemics in their stories to confront issues raised by a threat to human survival that […]
Mexico Outbreak Traced to ‘Manure Lagoons’ at Pig Farm
April 28th, 2009This is an interesting story. Of course, it doesn’t mention the fact that, back in February, Panasonic knew that a pandemic flu event was going to happen. Via: Times Online: The first known case of swine flu emerged a fortnight earlier than previously thought in a village where residents have long complained about the smell […]
Flashback: CDC to Mix Avian, Human Flu Viruses in Pandemic Study
April 28th, 2009Via: CIDRAP: One of the worst fears of infectious disease experts is that the H5N1 avian influenza virus now circulating in parts of Asia will combine with a human-adapted flu virus to create a deadly new flu virus that could spread around the world. That could happen, scientists predict, if someone who is already infected […]
Container of Swine Virus Explodes on Swiss Train
April 28th, 2009Via: Reuters: A container of flu virus samples packed in dry ice exploded on a Swiss train, injuring one person but posing no other risks to humans, police said on Tuesday. Skip related content The box held vials of swine flu virus, although a different strain than the H1N1 variety that has caused about 150 […]
What Do You Call it When a Four-Week Civil Contingency Exercise, to Prepare for a Flu Pandemic, Has to Be Cancelled Due to the Outbreak of a Flu Pandemic? A “Sheer Coincidence”
April 27th, 2009This was in the Scotsman last week: Rehearsal of Flu Pandemic Set to Begin: A FOUR-WEEK exercise to prepare Scotland for a flu pandemic is to start next week, it was announced yesterday. The Scottish Government will be running the emergency exercise, called Cauld Craw, involving health boards, the ambulance services and other organisations who […]
Flashback: Panasonic to Fly Home Workers’ Families “Well Ahead of Possible Confusion at the Outbreak of a Global Pandemic”
April 26th, 2009Remember this one from February? Via: AFP: Panasonic Corp. has ordered Japanese employees in some foreign countries to send their families home to Japan in preparation for a possible bird flu pandemic, a spokesman said Tuesday. Family members of Japanese employees in parts of Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Russia, former Soviet states and Latin […]
April 14-15: FEMA’s Interagency Continuity Influenza Pandemic Tabletop Exercise
April 26th, 2009Via: Imperial Valley News: Most people recognize the value of a fire drill. Adults and children alike recognize the usual fire drill steps include evacuating the building and reaching a pre-designated spot. What most people do not recognize is that a fire drill is really an emergency evacuation plan and emergency evacuation plans are growing […]
