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[multivitamins]

oh my god what the fuck? you know what, this flu is like some killer flu or some shit because everyone i have spoken to is coming down with it. how is that for this place? all survived the null attack to be killed by a cold? you do realize that the influenza virus can give you shit like heart failure and sepsis? i mean jesus, your arm could drop off. other bits of you could fall off.

so if you don't have this flu bullshit then go lock yourself away and don't talk to anyone and if we all die then at least we'll come back. maybe. unless it's all fucked up then who the hell knows anymore?

it'll be smallpox next.

[ This is Eddie's worst nightmare without the paranoia kicking in.]

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[soldier_blade]

Thing about those sorts of stories kid-and this coming from my own experience-any story beginning with 'I knew someone' is either a bullshit rumor or greatly exaggerated with missing details.

So, this is a flu bug going around, shit like that happens all the time. Freaking out and panicking about it won't do you or anyone any favors, and since stress weakens the immune system, I'd suggest you try and calm down.

And I've already been vaccinated against small pox-one of the few good things about military health care.

[multivitamins]

or they could be true and we don't believe it because we think it's bullshit, then we pay the price. better to listen to it and then it's not a shock if it happens.

it does???? wait you can get a small pox vaccination?????

[soldier_blade]

[So..if someone told you there's a disease where people start growing cow parts, would you believe them?

No, that's not a real disease, it's just what people feared when they started experimenting with vaccinations. The first experiments involved dairymaids who had caught cowpox, but doctors found they were immune to smallpox]

[The kid was so wound up, it was draining just to explain things to him.]

[I don't know when you were born, kid, but yes, until I was a little younger than you, there was a smallpox vaccine. They stopped because the virus was all but eradicated except for the CDC. They only give it to military because the work we do puts us at risk for chemical/biological warfare-hell, even our uniforms are treated against possible infection.