Comments on: Cosplay Convention Top Story on CNN

By: Kale Kip

Kale Kip — Mon, 04 May 2009 16:49:30 +0000

@Mer: We should shape condoms like pig snouts, make pictures of Japanese hipsters wearing them and send those to Fox news. Humanity can still be saved!

By: David Forbes

David Forbes — Mon, 04 May 2009 15:47:39 +0000

Virus Chic! Yeah!

On a more serious note, remember that the most likely apocalypses are the ones you never see coming.

By: Mer

Mer — Mon, 04 May 2009 14:44:05 +0000

“90 people get swine flu and everybody wants to wear a mask. A million people have AIDS and no one wants to wear a condom.”

Read that in my twitterstream yesterday. Says it all, somehow.

By: syd

syd — Mon, 04 May 2009 02:52:21 +0000

strange indeed. I enjoyed this disregard of the whole thing
http://KuroGato.deviantart.com/art/air-conditioning-120858514

By: Alice

Alice — Mon, 04 May 2009 01:08:57 +0000

I remember seeing that kiss image a year or so ago and just…swooning over it. Automatic right-click-save, that one.

Can’t say I’m sad about the possibility of medical masks becoming a more acceptable day-time accessory, though. Especially since a package of 50 just arrived for me in the mail (ordered for completely non-H1N1 reasons)…

On a side note, do masks like these (i.e., ones without any actual filter mechanism) really do much in the way of disease prevention?

By: Tequila

Tequila — Mon, 04 May 2009 00:58:10 +0000

You keep waiting and waiting for the end of the world only to get nothing. The Apocalypse is suck a cock tease.

While the issue itself is serious, the handling of it at this point has totally been overkill to the point of doing more harm than good. It’s making some see it as “no big deal” and others panic to the point of actually making themselves sick.

DAMN YOU CABLE NEWS MEDIA!!! Can’t you guys get anything right? Then again they can’t even handle the murder of a little girl with taste and professionalism so maybe we’re expecting too much?

I’m off to my bunker with a shotgun, decade supply of dried food and water, and my many How To Kill Zombie manuals…cause you top dwellers are all screwed man.

By: Skerror

Skerror — Sun, 03 May 2009 20:54:38 +0000

Those FOX News images are total rich-white-businessman pr0n. If you’re using a flu epidemic as a means to “express your individuality”…you’ll probably be willing to buy ANYTHING.

By: Kale Kip

Kale Kip — Sun, 03 May 2009 20:24:10 +0000

“I imagine the colorful swine flu parade coming from the news media
to be the product of journalists/photographers bored to tears from framing recession-related stories.”

It is either that or a giant marketing conspiracy of the mouth cap industry. If you look at the mortality rate in other flu epidemics, this one is hardly special. http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content-nw/full/289/2/179/TABLEJOC21709T3