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This service crawls the international press pages hosted on the interweb, logs all the mentions of diseases and transforms the results into a worrying real-time graph showing which pandemic is currently creating the most concern. These results are then cross-referenced with reliable (hah!) medical web
sites to create a drilldown feature that shows you the likelihood of contagion, of permanent disfigurement, disablement or death.
Registering for this service is free and members can also receive free SMS messages to their mobile so that they know, from moment to moment, whether they should be heading to the drugstore, the doctor or the undertakers.
The site would be funded by taking advertising from leading pharmaceutical & healthcare companies.
Of course, if no-one got sick, there'd be no need for it.
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(See last comment, Nov 02 2001) [angel, Nov 17 2005]
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Ooh... can you add some mapping
functionality? |
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Like a spreading red patch on GoogleEarth? |
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scaremonger.org?
chickenlittle.net?
cnn.com? |
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You should worry when your neighbors are drumming and chanting all evening to keep the sun up. |
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It's called the mainsteam media. If I could just my hands around one of their executives necks... |
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... I believe the maintstream media, and television is largely responsible for ALOT of today's problems. The economy might pick up if the media didn't constantly inform us about how bad it's doing! Women everywhere might feel good about themselves, instead of puking away their dinner, and buying more make-up than you could ever use! I am all for freedom, freedom of speeach, freedom of expression, but I believe media corporations should not be allowed to have an opinion! The media helps the petrol industry, they 'predicted' that the gas prices would go up after Hurricane Katrina hit, yet these massive corporations have been insured, and their operations down south would definitely have been reinforced to withstand Hurricanes. Yet, the prices DID go up, and the oil companies are publishing RECORD PROFITS. I heard that a senator or someone in my state was subpoenaing the oil executives to explain WHY they are publishing record profits! |
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The media provides us with distractions, AKA celebrities and movies, which are the standard in this country, but are largely a multi million dollar steaming pile of shit! |
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The reporters reported 'rape' and murder, down in NO after the hurricane, yet not even a single reporter has seen such an act! |
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CNN executive 1: "Let's see, there is a destroyed city, with no law enforcement, and criminals loose throughout the city, what can we do to 'enhance' this story?" |
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CNN executive 2: "logic pursuades that there must be illegal stuff happening! Like Rape! And Torture! And looting! And all kinds of bad things the masses GUSH over!" |
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CNN executive 1: "Brilliant! Secretary! Get me the chief editor for Yahoo news!" |
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I could go on for a veeery long time, but I've lost my track on what I was abou to say. |
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Ah, but in this case Mr Pickels, the scaremongering media is a good thing. This is an advertising service for those who stand to benefit from health scares not a public information booth.
I like st3f/angel's map tie-in. Perhaps with the sound of a beating heart added in. As the red rash spreads the heart beat can speed up just to engender a little extra feeling of panic into the proceedings. |
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Such as an active media wall chart that depicts silhouette shapes of which species of contagious bird to brown your pants at the sight of this particular week? Parrots are out, finches are in. |
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Excellent thinking.
Also, I've just realised that if I use an 's' word to replace 'Alerts' in the title, it can be called GPS, giving it some totally unwarranted credibility by false association with, well, GPS. |
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I was thinking of something with some gravitas but still likely to induce undue panic. 'Alert' is a good word for that sort of thing. 'Siren' would be good in that respect but 'Global Pandemic Siren' doesn't quite sound right. Although I like the idea of an air-raid siren sounding whenever you open up the site. Air-raid sirens never fail to induce panic. |
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*shouts* as in the way the emergency services would use the word, I thought. |
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not having lived through the 2nd world war, the all-clear always scared me stiff as well. |
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I assume chickenlittle is the same as ChickenLicken in the UK? The sky is falling down etc? Then I vote for chickenlicken.co.uk for us Brits. |
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Regarding angel's link, I would argue that quite the opposite is true. We're in the business of convincing perfectly healthy people that they need to introduce copious quantities of high profit margin substances into their bodies in order to maintain their health.
After all. why limit the market for drugs to just sick people? There are a limited number of them and, given their state of health, they're not likely to be either wealthy or long term consumers. There are lots more healthy earners out there that you can sell stuff to and, if you can convince them that it's in their own interest, they're likely to provide you with a lifetime of sales opportunities.
The whole idea has more in common with FoxyLoxy than ChickenLicken. |
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chickenlicken.co.uk could get hits from people who were looking for something compeletly different. |
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Whilst EvilPickels is going a little overboard he has a point about this. It would only serve to cause panic and the advertising would let pharmacutical companies raise prices due to higher demand. This would in no way benefit the consumers. |
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Having a website that gives clear and reasonable guidance would be a much better idea, and they exist. |
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I do agree with one thing EvilPickels said - The media should not have an opinion (ar at least the news shouldnt) |
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[DrBob]: You're saying that if no-one got ill there'd be *more* need for this, because people would need something other than genuine illness as a reason to buy medication? |
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Absolutely. I refer you to the idea category, m'ludd.
//It would only serve to cause panic and the advertising would let pharmacutical companies raise prices due to higher demand//
And your point is? |
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Chicken Licken: how avian flu is transmitted to humans. |
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The intention of the idea (to prevent
people from deadly diseases) is good,
but I think the news already do that,
plus, I'm on EvilPickels' side about the
impact of the media. |
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Having //A service to let you know what
you should be worrying about// is
exactly what the world's governments
-particularly the american- are doing. |
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I think we have already worried too
much about things that are out of our
control. We shouldn't give the
"leaders" more tools to terrorize and
manipulate us while pretending they're
informing us. |
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Remember the american "Patriot Act" (or
something like that, I don't remember
the name) after 9/11; people giving up
their rights because they were induced
to panic by the media. |
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We don't need that, and I think this idea
here is the perfect tool to continue with
it. Fish, sorry. |
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Ah, Pericles, I guess DrBob's sarcasm didn't make it through the language barrier. |
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Oh, sorry. No, it didn't make it through.
Fish removed, sorry :) |
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Where any confusion occurs, the fault is with the writer not the reader.
(Obviously I don't believe that for a minute but it nevers hurts to be polite!) |
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Is it just me, or is it that the human race should've died out ages ago because of the 'epidemic/pandemic' that is 'long due'? Every year the news brings in some 'expert' who claims that we're all due for another black death or something like that. |
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I'm waiting for an expert to claim that we could have all died in a pandemic which is long overdue, were it not for the fact that statistically speaking we were all wiped out when Mt St Helens erupted and clothed the Earth in nuclear winter several hundred years ago. Incidentally, I haven't been keeping track, but anyone know the current ratio of deaths due to Tamiflu vs deaths due to H5N1? Read an article saying 13 Japanese kids had died from the drug. |
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This may create unwanted spurts of petty mass hysteria from time to time... but otherwise helpful. [+] |
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