A pandemic (from Greek πᾶν pan "all" + δῆμος demos "people") is an epidemic of infectious disease that has spread through human populations across a large region; for instance multiple continents, or even worldwide. A widespread endemic disease that is stable in terms of how many people are getting sick from it is not a pandemic. Further, flu pandemics generally exclude recurrences of seasonal flu. Throughout history there have been a number of pandemics, such as smallpox and tuberculosis. More recent pandemics include the HIV pandemic and the H1N1 pandemic.
The World Health Organization (WHO) produce a six-stage classification that describes the process by which a novel influenza virus moves from the first few infections in humans through to a pandemic. This starts with the virus mostly infecting animals, with a few cases where animals infect people, then moves through the stage where the virus begins to spread directly between people, and ends with a pandemic when infections from the new virus have spread worldwide.
Morgan Ailis Webb (born October 5, 1978) is an American co-host and senior segment producer of the G4 show X-Play, and host of the show G4 Underground. She was previously the host of the podcast WebbAlert and a monthly columnist for the United States edition of FHM, where she contributed a monthly video game column titled "Tips from the Gaming Goddess".
Webb attended UC Berkeley from 1996 to 2000. She developed computer skills in her free time there, and after graduating from college, worked for a dot-com company as a website administrator. After the company went under during the dot-com bubble burst of 2000, her friend Catherine Schwartz got her hired at TechTV in 2001, and Webb became employed as the associate producer and web researcher for The Screen Savers. Throughout 2002 and 2003, she also regularly co-hosted TechTV's Call for Help with Chris Pirillo. In April 2003, Webb left The Screen Savers to co-host X-Play with Adam Sessler.
Webb is one of only six TechTV personalities, including Adam Sessler, Sarah Lane, Chi-Lan Lieu, Kevin Rose, and Brendan Moran, to survive the massive layoffs resulting from the May 2004 merger of G4 and TechTV. Only Sessler and Webb remained with the network after G4's change in format. After Sessler resigned in April 2012, Webb is now the only original TechTV personality remaining on the network.
The Cure are an English alternative rock band formed in Crawley, West Sussex in 1976. The band has experienced several line-up changes, with frontman, vocalist, guitarist and principal songwriter Robert Smith being the only constant member. The Cure first began releasing music in the late 1970s with its debut album Three Imaginary Boys (1979); this, along with several early singles, placed the band as part of the post-punk and New Wave movements that had sprung up in the wake of the punk rock revolution in the United Kingdom. During the early 1980s, the band's increasingly dark and tormented music helped form the gothic rock genre.
After the release of Pornography (1982), the band's future was uncertain and Smith was keen to move past the gloomy reputation his band had acquired. With the 1982 single "Let's Go to Bed" Smith began to place a pop sensibility into the band's music (as well as a unique stage look). The Cure's popularity increased as the decade wore on, especially in the United States where the songs "Just Like Heaven", "Lovesong" and "Friday I'm in Love" entered the Billboard Hot 100 chart. By the start of the 1990s, The Cure were one of the most popular alternative rock bands in the world. The band is estimated to have sold 27 million albums as of 2004. The Cure have released thirteen studio albums, 10 EPs and over thirty singles during the course of their career. Since 2010, they have been working on a fourteenth studio album.
Behold this epic pandemic molding a nation of fear*
Breaking laws of genetics immense empire draws near
Getting off by playing god absurd malicious fraud
They germinate the populous
They germinate the populous plaguing all that's in sight
Forming a robotic metropolis
And so the cancer spreads with no hope for a cure
We are the anti-bodies this struggle we endure
Getting off by playing god absurd malicious fraud
They germinate the populous (2x)
Born into a pool full of failure we did not choose this fate
Take control of these reigns before it's too late born into a pool full of failure we did not choose this fate (2x)
Bow down you fucking slave
We are the anti-human race
Now dig your fucking grave
Humanities ultimate disgusting disgrace
We are the villainous vermin the anti-human race
A whole new meaning of self-loathing sin pandemic of epic proportion begins
Take control of these reigns before it's too late born into a pool of failure we did not choose this fate (2x)
We are the anti human race (3x)
So come with us and you will find
Hidden evils inside your mind
Give up all hope and your battles within
This is where the pandemic begins
So come with us and you will find (you will find)
Hidden evils inside your mind (inside your mind)
Give up all hope and your battles within
In the cool of the evening, when the fires start burning bright
Hear the twilight callin', as the flames burst into the night
It's creeping in your bloodstream... like a Metal disease
Underneath the streetlights, everything is larger than life
Ya hear the roar, see it gleaming like the edge on a switch-blade knife
A worldwide eruption... underneath your skin
Worldwide corruption... slowly seeping in
Chorus
It's a Pandemic
It's A Metal Disease... Pandemic
Brain cell abduction, creeping in like sin, It's a Pandemic...
A Metal Disease... Pandemic
Brain cell destruction, breeding metal from within...
Whaaaa!!!
Give into the venom, circulating underneath the skin
Like mercury poison, liquid metal boils within
Spreading like a wildfire, burning up the earth
Caught in the crossfire, all around the world
There's no way to stop it now...
Chorus
It's a Pandemic
It's A Metal Disease... Pandemic
Burnt in your hard drive, smokin' up the earth, like a Pandemic...
A Pandemic... it's a Metal Disease
Solo
Chorus
Pandemic... Wow, it's a Metal Disease
Pandemic... caught in the barbed wire, it's undeneath the skin
It's a Pandemic... it's a Metal Disease
Pandemic
It's creeping in your bloodstream
WANDERING SOUL OF MINE!
WANDERING IN TIME!
WANDERING SOUL OF MINE!
Ahh, we are so far gone!
I knew you once, what will you become?
I PROBABLY WOULD!
I PROBABLY WOULD!
Soon you will know where all the sinners go.
I sew you up and throw you away!
All is calm, all is well!
A LIFE WORTH WAITING FOR!
ALL is rooted, in INFINITE CHAOS!
CHOOSE YOUR PERSPECTIVE!
Pandemic (I farted!)
Pandemic (I farted!)
WE ARE ALL! ...HERE COMES THE TRUTH!
EGO EGO EGO!
I probably would...
JUST GET IT OUT!
YES!
WANDERING SOUL OF MINE!
WANDERING IN TIME!
Gathering Doom engulfs the Vast Darkened Abyss
A Savior of Despair; hellish Locusts of Impending Dread
Twisted, writhing contortions of life beget for Death
Conflicting moral; Defleshed Salvation
Fallen Death upon the earth
Freefall of might
Enshrined, Dethroned world
Alienated ostracism
Incessant mortals, wasted like awaiting Death
Nurture to digress, nature of life's Brokeness
Laughter of the earth, Sardonic uncleanliness
Lustful Morbid race, pathetic empathy
Unborn malaised yearning, putrify to life's End