Bird Flu Blockbuster for Sept… Surely to be Followed by Another Season of FUD

By Friday July 15, 2011

Perhaps they’ll open the movie with this classic PSA.

We’re all gonna DIE!!!!! Now if we can just get a vaccine for FUD.



24 Comments
  1. scandihoovian says:
    7/15/2011 at 7:26 am

    The talent they amassed for this madness is pretty astonishing considering Matt Damon narrated Inside Job. I’ll just keep taking my vitamin C with that relaxed look of office chair w/ feet on desk look though. BOO.

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  2. kerpow says:
    7/15/2011 at 8:13 am

    I love the line “Someone doesn’t have to weaponize the bird flu… the birds are doing that.”

    I almost sprayed coffee on my screen. I’m predicting a War on Birds.

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  3. Nolimit662 says:
    7/15/2011 at 8:14 am

    I agree with #1…..why such a blockbuster cast? They must really want to push their fear agenda!

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  4. scandihoovian says:
    7/15/2011 at 8:35 am

    A Public Scare Announcement? Keep it coming McCullough, this is gold and a great laugh on a Friday.

    However, now I just realized Bryan Cranston is in this movie. For Fucking Shame.

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  5. Dallas says:
    7/15/2011 at 10:48 am

    Combine air travel and Chinese eating raw chickens and monkeys and we got a problem that God didn’t account for. I welcome the chicken flu vaccines. This shit is in fact what will decimate humans some day. Intentionally or accidentally.

    Oh and nice flick!! Matt Damon, of course, is so yummy and Gweneth Paltrow is awesome.

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  6. UncDon says:
    7/15/2011 at 10:50 am

    I blame the army of the Twelve Monkeys.

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  7. spsffan says:
    7/15/2011 at 12:17 pm

    Typical Hollywood crap. What did you expect?

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  8. bobbo, high culture art critic says:
    7/15/2011 at 12:18 pm

    Why watch it if Bradgalina isn’t in it?

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  9. deowll says:
    7/15/2011 at 1:51 pm

    Just what we need. A high budget B movie with a disease as Mothra. You can’t trust the bleeps running the government when they can make money selling us out to big pharma.

    The sick thing is one of these day this disease will kill about 1/4 of the human race. Until then these sick bleeps want to get rich screaming wolf but the bad news is sooner a or large the monster under the bed will show up and the CDC and WHO will have no cred because they screamed wolf way to many times when it was Bow Peep.

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  10. msbpodcast says:
    7/15/2011 at 1:58 pm

    In # 2 kerpow said: I almost sprayed coffee on my screen.

    Well I did. :-)

    Hilarious…

    I too loved> the line: “Someone doesn’t have to weaponize the bird flu… the birds are doing that.

    Nature’s ultimate revenge.

    Now … Go lie down on a beach near the ocean. (Can you say tsunami?)

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  11. msbpodcast says:
    7/15/2011 at 2:01 pm

    WTF is happening with the posting system?

    [Sticky mouse button? Fixed -ed.]

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  12. admfubar says:
    7/15/2011 at 6:26 pm

    #9 is kinda on to this… this is a IP protectionism movie, sponsored by pharmaceutical industry. Remember how the last bird flu scare didnt achieve the sales results of vaccinations??? soo how do you ramp up sales..

    we are being carefully manipulated by advertising… and this movie is nothing more than that.. (well a remake of andromeda strain) an ad to get us to buy into the flu vaccines. But remember no vaccine today can protect you from the pandemic(s) of tomorrow, because it will take time to find the strain that causes the pandemic and then develop and distribute the vaccine to the population. by then it will be too late for most..
    :) have a nice day! :)

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  13. Rick says:
    7/15/2011 at 9:56 pm

    Pretty much every virus originates from China. Nuke the country and the rest of the world is much better off.

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  14. sargasso_c says:
    7/16/2011 at 12:05 am

    Definitely Oscar worthy. Waiting for that.

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  15. UncDon says:
    7/16/2011 at 9:18 am

    #13:

    No, just isolate pigs and ducks in China:

    http://psc.edu/science/Herlocher/Herlocher-blame.html

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  16. H1N1 Vicitm says:
    7/16/2011 at 12:31 pm

    My wife got H1N1 when she was six months pregnant, ended up in the critical care unit for a week and nearly died. It was a scary fucking disease and it all happened in under 24 hours. Thankfully, she got though it, thanks to some heavy hitting drugs, and everything was OK in the end.

    I know this blog loves to make fun of the Brid Flu, Swine Flu etc.. However, these are real diseases and they affect real people, so keep that in mind.

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  17. Floyd says:
    7/16/2011 at 3:01 pm

    In the 70s, a month or two after I got out of the Army, I got a free immunization from the local health department for the swine flu vaccine. No side effects, and I haven’t had the flu since. I hope H1N1 is as efffective as that was.

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  18. GregAllen says:
    7/16/2011 at 4:30 pm

    I’m old enough to remember when the old folks still talked about the 1918 flu pandemic.

    It was not FUD. It was death on a massive scale by the H1N1 people now scoff at.

    Some of our neighbors lost all their kids.

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  19. deowll says:
    7/17/2011 at 4:12 pm

    #18 The flu is a killer but most cases of flu are moderate to mild. If you are old or for some other reason have a compromised immune system it can kill you. I do take the regular flu shots and some of those contained material that would have helped with H1N1.

    However it was clear very early that the CDC and WHO were fear mongering for reasons not clear.If you looked at the number of cases and numbers of deaths from the early data you of Mexico you already knew this was nothing even remotely resembling what happened in 1911. It came down to one or two deaths per thousand of reported flu cases and the Mexican authorities were saying most people stayed home and never saw a doc. I’m not sure if even 10 people died of H1N1 in the state of TN.

    The bleeper with H1N1 is if it did get nasty and you started to run a high fever you needed help fast. That is a fever is normal with most flu cases but with H1N1 running a fever meant you were critical or that’s what the publications said. I can’t actually name anybody that I know for sure had H1N1. For a while they were calling everything H1N1 and having a hissy fit.

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  20. GregAllen says:
    7/17/2011 at 4:33 pm

    Deowll,

    The kind of scary thing about the last H1N1 breakout was it was more fatal in kids than adults.

    http://tinyurl.com/6e97xzj

    I suspect that my daughter and I both got the H1N1 in 2009 and it was definitely harder on her than me. This was very atypical. Normally she shrugs off the flu and it hits me like a locomotive. Not that time.

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