don't panic, but "SWINE FLU COULD SPREAD GLOBALLY"

(just in case)

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i like that cnn.com's new story is "emergency rooms overrun with hysterical people who don't actually ahve swine flu, oh noes"...whose fucking fault is that?????

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It is obv the fault of all those public health officials who have appeared on television, tearing their hair out, running in circles and screaming "OH GOD! OH GOD! OH GOD! WE'RE GONNA DIE!", then falling down foaming at the mouth, in tight close up.

would wear top middle mask

my hs closes with the swine flu fear

Was there a confirmed case or a confirmed exposure? If so, I can see it.

a confirmed case of memorial day weekend and litigious parents, probably

this is pretty over as a news story.

for now.......

I dunno about that, we've just had a big outbreak in a melbourne primary school.

Confirmed cases too, not just a cautionary thing.

oh yeah, just because its over as a news story doesn't mean its not a big thing, but like its not front page news like it woulda been pretty recently.

Ya true that.

It's like that earthquake in Italy. Killed 100s (1000s?) of people and it dropped off the news radar after days. The chinese earthquake from a year ago still has 10000s of homeless ppl affected and I'd forgot all about it.

meanwhile some MPs have claimed tax money for a bathtub and everyone's fucking going mad for several weeks

Swine Flu pulling attention and resources away from actual health crises:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hG6zmXnY6v5La-llZ8qbQIrdE-WAD98A7UM80

Wow that Chagas disease sounds pretty scary.

Some people are borrowing a spare meeting room in our office because their own was taken over for a swine flu hotline centre.

Subways and public places seem a little emptier to me -- is everyone following Biden's advice or something?

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A girl in my workteam came back from her holidays in the United States last weekend and apparently she caught the swine flu on the flight, so she's been quarantined and obviously not allowed to come to work. But somehow she was fit enough to be interviewed on the telephone for breakfast radio about DEADLY SWINE FLU!

My sister was sent to the hospital for tests this week by our doctor because they were afraid she had the swine flu. It was the regular flu.

Raised to pandemic level. I blame Australia.

I blame the owls.

Looking back over this mostly sensible and level headed thread I wonder what exactly would make ilx panic?

the internet breaking

nabisco getting banned

I wish it was The Who declaring a level six pandemic rather than WHO.

"Don't cry
Don't wipe your eye
It's only H1N1"

"Pft, swine flu? I once had to sit through 3 hours of Animal Collective records, this is NOTHING"

One of my friends in Melbourne got quarantined for 3 days last week. Went to the doc with flu symptoms, and bobs yer uncle she's quarantined, no questions asked. She said they're not even screening for it. Frikkin crazy.

They've also admitted that the H1N1 screening test they are using is some kind of quick-test. It doesnt provide a 100% positive (or negative) result - so apparenlty lots of supposed cases didnt have it at all - and lots who got the all clear probably *did* have it.

Somehow, thus far, I've managed to not catch a thing, fingers crossed.

Don't cough in public. Someone'll throw you in a van and you'll end up stuck in an ET oxygen tent surrounded by dudes in hazmat suits.

Hey now some people pay good money for that to happen to them every day.

stop it you're turning me on

xpost dammit

just as well I didn't say anything about the probing...

Nobody tell Michael Jackson or he'll be over here like a shot.

hahah. Shot. geddit?

gettin kinda real out there, ain't it?

the guy who sits next to me at work has two kids with The Swine Flu. supposedly he doesn't have it. yeeeeeeeeeeesh

Nobody tell Michael Jackson or he'll be over here like a shot.

― I'm Rick Wakeman, bitch! (Trayce), Friday, June 12, 2009 6:18 AM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

we could see over 100,000 cases per day by the end of August

basically u know it's real in the field when the govt decides to stop giving out daily stats.

yeah but otoh: a bout of swine flu was currently causing less serious illness than traditional seasonal flu

it's spreading itself thin

My dad has a pretty bad case of "oh don't worry, it's totally normal"-flu at the moment. Yeah, right dad.

yeah but otoh: a bout of swine flu was currently causing less serious illness than traditional seasonal flu

even still, millions of people having an illness of any kind is gonna be mental. also, the effects are highly likely to get worse.

As Wodehouse said, it is never difficult to distinguish between FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson) and a ray of sunshine

i dunno, couldn't find figures for uk, but apparently it's normal for anywhere from 10 per cent to a third of people to get flu in a season in the usa. so i'm not sure this is going to be much more prevalent. how do you know the effects are highly likely to get worse?