Bloodshot Scott
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Anyone get sick this flu season? I must be one tough SOB because I never get sick, and if you knew how much firewater I put into my body you'd have to wonder why. :dunno:
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Did anyone get the "swine flu"?
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vodkazvictim
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I got a bad flu around 2007. Wasn't diagnosed as swine flu, I wasn't treated and it didn't kill me.
A few months back a family I know in Greece had a bad flu attack that went around. They all survived. Not sure that it was swine flu.
A few months back a family I know in Greece had a bad flu attack that went around. They all survived. Not sure that it was swine flu.
I got the swine flu last april. It kicked my ass royally...think I was sick for 7 or 8 days before I started feeling better and stopped with the fevor BS. I could see how it could be a danger for someone in less than perfect health, but that goes for any flu I think!!! Everyone in my family has gotten the regular flu this year except me...I'd like to keep it that way!!
Ulysses31
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I got something bad that lasted from xmas eve to xmas day, worse flu I'd ever had, headches, body aches, nausea and sensitivity to light etc, damn 3 months has passed quick. Funny thing is swine flu received very little media attention this year compared to last year yet I'm sure more people seemed to die from it (especialy the elderly etc with pre-existing conditions) this year in the UK :dunno:
It's popped up in dutch media quite a few times, but I think the general feeling is it didn't wipe out the population this year so it's just another nasty virus this year.
Ulysses31
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I think part of it was the mass hysteria last year, from what I've heard Swine Flu is not that much more dangerous than regular flu and either is dangerous for the elderly, children and the sick. This winter we had so many people going to hospital with the flu (one disadvantage of free healthcare) that in some hospitals pregnant women ready to give birth couldn't get beds as they were full of flu patients who then spread it around the wards. I think this meant the media kept the panic to a low so less people would clog up the hospitals and just accept the fact they'll have to recover slowly at home.
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My daughter caught it and was ill for 3 or 4 days. No one else in the house did though. It seems that the h1n1 virus is actually milder than a "normal" 'flu, and is less dangerous to the young and elderly.
Below is an extract from http://www.theoneclickgroup.co.uk/d...s Damned Lies And Swine Flu Statistics[1].pdf
The number of deaths associated with ILI in the UK in 2010 according to the HPA is tiny - only 39, of
which 36 were due to H1N1 'swine flu' and 3 to Influenza B. The mean age of the patient was around
35 years old - and not much younger as is being widely published. [3] While these fatalities are
clearly sad for the families of the individuals, they are by far a very small statistic compared with the
overall death rate, which by week 49 of 2010 was >11,000 people in England and Wales. [3] But even
so, at face value of influenza media reporting, one would think that every parent in the country
should be terrified for the life of their small infants
Below is an extract from http://www.theoneclickgroup.co.uk/d...s Damned Lies And Swine Flu Statistics[1].pdf
The number of deaths associated with ILI in the UK in 2010 according to the HPA is tiny - only 39, of
which 36 were due to H1N1 'swine flu' and 3 to Influenza B. The mean age of the patient was around
35 years old - and not much younger as is being widely published. [3] While these fatalities are
clearly sad for the families of the individuals, they are by far a very small statistic compared with the
overall death rate, which by week 49 of 2010 was >11,000 people in England and Wales. [3] But even
so, at face value of influenza media reporting, one would think that every parent in the country
should be terrified for the life of their small infants
I don't think it was that much of an overreaction. The death rate in Mexico city was quite high - that was likely because of the poor air quality. Many people with pre-disposing conditions also became severely ill or died. In the early days, no one really knew how severe the flu would be, all that they knew was that it could spread rapidly.
Bloodshot Scott
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It also helps if you don't work around a bunch of dirtballs at work, go to university or work with small, germ-spreading youngsters. :2 cents:
The firewater thing...I don't know, because my sister's ex was an exchange student from America to Germany (extremely fluent in the German language). His stay-in family gave him shots of the hard stuff to cure ailments. I always got a kick out of that. Of course, it was just a jigger or something, so...
Ulysses31
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Don't you work in a hospital?
Kingfisher
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Nope. And not scared of it either.
Hot Mega
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Now I do wish the cupcake munching worm was back. Then maybe he could explain how to get enough lysol into your system to kill swine flu while still preserving the life of the host.
Of course disinfectants kill germs, bacteria and viruses. But the reason we use these things only on the shit we'd be inclined to touch and not in us is because they would likely kill us too.
@ OP...check with Michele Bachmann....according to her this is either a hoax or a vast left wing conspiracy being perpetrated first by Carter and now again by Obama.:tinhat: (Never mind the fact that the :yahoo: has gotten her facts wrong again.)
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