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.
Swine flu
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.
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.
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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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.timsinister wrote:Yeah, but they're only students.
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.
Still fighting fit here - apart from mi toes - ooooh I am suffering.
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.
Still fighting fit here - apart from mi toes - ooooh I am suffering.
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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.
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And don't forget to throw away the hanky!Headingly wrote:Now wash your hands.emilystrange wrote:*sneeze*
Some *** at work thought it was a good idea to replace all desktop images on all computers with swine flu top tips. Ugh
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.
-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?
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Hamster flu, mole flu, okapi flu, long live pharmaceutical industry.Obviousman wrote:We demand better flues?
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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: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.timsinister wrote:Yeah, but they're only students.
Can she teach via videolink? Or with a gas-mask?markfiend wrote:Also, lecturers might be quite prone to catching it off their students, which puts Kerry at risk.
Two casualties at the Ministry, including the girl who sits opposite. The icy hand of, er, mildly annoying illness, is creeping ever closer!
pork of from hamstersBack in time wrote:Hamster flu, mole flu, okapi flu, long live pharmaceutical industry.Obviousman wrote:We demand better flues?
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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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Not just cynicism and paranoia, but also pure old statistics. Better swine flu than standard flu that nobody mentions.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.
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Um why? The main difference is that we haven't had time to build up any resistance to swine flu.Back in time wrote:Better swine flu than standard flu that nobody mentions.
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.