so if we have a swine flu pandemic/outbreak

[datasuspect]

Poll question: so if we have a swine flu pandemic/outbreak

what role do you want to play?

[JTG of the PRB]

1. Other: I'd be the TV news reporter who dramatically takes off his glasses during the news...

"We have received word now that the virus has spread to critical levels in New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Chicago, and that hospitals across the country are filled to capacity with the dead and the dying."

(Cue dramatic glasses removal)

"Ladies and gentlemen, we will stay with you on this channel as long as we can, as long as we have bodies to man the cameras and read the news. The important thing now is to stay calm, stay indoors, and be with your loved ones."

[datasuspect]

5. that. is. the. best.

"a recent outbreak of mass murder where . . . as strange as this seems, the recently deceased have reanimated and are consuming the flesh of the living."

[rcrush]

2. They wouldnt listen man!

Homeland Security created this virus in a secret lab! And released it in Mexico!

[Spock_is_Skeptical]

3. Who needs a wife when I have my precious research

amirite?

[XemaSab]

4. The cute female sidekick

who was merely a professional colleague in the book but is a girlfriend in the movie so the film can have an R rating for nudity.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. You forgot

the Governor/Mayor/other politician who insists there's no problem and refuses to allow the brave scientist to have access to information about his/her state/city.

and

the beautiful, devoted girlfriend of the brave scientist, who eventually succumbs, beautifully, to the flu while the scientist is trying to save the population

and

the loudmouth freeper type who doesn't believe the flu exists and breaks out of a quarantined area, thereby spreading it before he falls over dead.

[SPKrazy]

7. Living in the mountains with an arsenal to defend myself from the

following zombie invasion which is all the Swine flu is, a precursor for that

[FloridaJudy]

8. The Televangelist

Who thunders from his TV pulpit that the epidemic is God's Vengeance on the world for their sinful activities, and who gets eaten by a pack of starving pit bulls whose owners have perished.

[Lucian]

9. The Zombie.

Doesn't the swine flu turn you into a zombie?

I gotta quit watching so many zombie movies.

[graywarrior]

10. Larry Underwood