Swine flu

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So lets chart the progress of the aporkalypse - how many of you have been struck down by swine flu so far?

That'd be me for starters.
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I apparently am included as well. I hardly believe myself I'm sick until I get up and try to do anything.
I guess all the panic is out off place with that infect.
For a flu, it shows an extremely low mortallity rate.
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I dont have it yet, but I go back to work on monday. And there will be 10 toddlers, covered in snot, and coming home from vacation in all sorta countries.

Crossing my figers I wont get it, hate being sick. And my boss wont be able to find someone to fill in for me, with my luck.
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Joking aside, I worry about the start of the new University year in September/October. Hundreds of thousands of people moving around the country...
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Yeah, but they're only students. :|
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*sneeze*
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timsinister wrote:Yeah, but they're only students. :|
Yeah but there's bound to be some already infected who then transmit it to people in their college towns. And I don't know if you've noticed, but there's quite a lot of students in Leeds. :P

Also, lecturers might be quite prone to catching it off their students, which puts Kerry at risk.
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There has been government discussions about delaying the start of term BUT that would cost far too much.

We had two confirmed cases the last week of term. LEA advice was not to shut the school - fair enough because the little 'swines' had been in school the days before and would have already merrily infected us all I suppose.

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emilystrange wrote:*sneeze*
Now wash your hands.
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Been off all week very ill but woke up fine today (still took the day off like). Had all the symptoms but couldn't be arsed getting that tamiflu thingy. Few beers & a few paracetamol through the week & now I'm raring for an all day sesh. 8)
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I've died from it twice.
Any more of that and we'll be round your front door with the quick-setting whitewash and the shaved monkey.
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stufarq wrote:I've died from it twice.
:lol: :lol: :lol:

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Headingly wrote:
emilystrange wrote:*sneeze*
Now wash your hands.
And don't forget to throw away the hanky!

Some *** at work thought it was a good idea to replace all desktop images on all computers with swine flu top tips. Ugh :|
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Nothing's beter than a good mass panic, eh?
-Still not getting much over 38°C. That flu's a wimp, I want my money back.
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We demand better flues? :lol:
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Obviousman wrote:We demand better flues? :lol:
Hamster flu, mole flu, okapi flu, long live pharmaceutical industry.
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markfiend wrote:
timsinister wrote:Yeah, but they're only students. :|
Yeah but there's bound to be some already infected who then transmit it to people in their college towns. And I don't know if you've noticed, but there's quite a lot of students in Leeds. :P
Alas, true, they are the shallow lifeblood of our fair metropolis - where would our sports bars, r'n'b clubs and Wilkinsons be without them? Not long before I'll be a shamless hypocrite though...
markfiend wrote:Also, lecturers might be quite prone to catching it off their students, which puts Kerry at risk.
Can she teach via videolink? Or with a gas-mask?

Two casualties at the Ministry, including the girl who sits opposite. The icy hand of, er, mildly annoying illness, is creeping ever closer!
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Back in time wrote:
Obviousman wrote:We demand better flues? :lol:
Hamster flu, mole flu, okapi flu, long live pharmaceutical industry.
pork of from hamsters :evil: :lol:
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Let's have a goth version -- bat flu (to go with the bat milk).
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Personally, I'll be taking my chances with the swine flu rather than any half-tested vaccine the government tries to foist on the public.

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Erudite wrote:Personally, I'll be taking my chances with the swine flu rather than any half-tested vaccine the government tries to foist on the public.

Cynicism and paranoia have got me to the ripe old age of thirty-seven.
Not just cynicism and paranoia, but also pure old statistics. Better swine flu than standard flu that nobody mentions.
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Back in time wrote:Better swine flu than standard flu that nobody mentions.
Um why? The main difference is that we haven't had time to build up any resistance to swine flu.

And "standard" flu gets mentioned quite a lot, usually with the statistics for the numbers who died in the last epidemic or the fact that current swine flu figures are pretty much on a par with average December flu cases.
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