I don't understand the swine flu scare. I mean, 36,000 people died last year from regular, seasonal flu and nobody panicked about it. This is a different strain of the flu but it's no more dangerous than the standard flu.
My kid had the flu this weekend... He slept, drank lots of fluids, puked a few times... and today is all better. But that's how the flu normally works.. and no we didn't take him to the doctor.
And, hi Honez... I just noticed that you were in Denver. I just moved my office from Boulder to Denver (lodo) April 1.
But I'll be jumping out of this open window in a few minutes to keep away from the Swine flu.
Cheers,
J
LOL! I will run right over with my safety net for ya ;)
We really need to get a Denver area webmaster happy hour thing set up. There are a few of us here.
I am not so scared about catching this flu and dieing from it as I am just getting the damned flu in general, especially a nastier strain of it.
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Some local schools here are closing this week as well because 1 student had symptoms over the weekend. It's not even a confirmed case of anything yet. Guess they'll go in and wipe down the classrooms or something anyway.
LOL! I will run right over with my safety net for ya ;)
We really need to get a Denver area webmaster happy hour thing set up. There are a few of us here.
I am not so scared about catching this flu and dieing from it as I am just getting the damned flu in general, especially a nastier strain of it.
How did I not know you all were in Denver? I'm 8 mins from downtown. Say when!
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I don't understand the swine flu scare. I mean, 36,000 people died last year from regular, seasonal flu and nobody panicked about it. This is a different strain of the flu but it's no more dangerous than the standard flu.
Simple answer is - we know those strains of influenza and it is very stable. With this one it is new and we do not know it yet, nor if it will remain stable.
We also have vaccines for the normal seasonal flu, we do not for this flu.
PS - people did panic a year or two ago with the regular flu when there was a shortage of vaccine available.
I do think the news agencies are slightly over blowing it. The WHO has it all pretty clear cut, and the whole thing makes sense yet of course anytime there is anything that could be or get bad - people get all retarded, and even more retarded if nothing super bad happens. (aka prevention, precautions, quarantines, etc. work).
more people die each day from AIDS or cancer. worry about that.
Unrelated for the most part now isn't it, unless of course say you catch the flu and have a weakened immune system from Aids or your cancer treatment and say it kills you.
Maybe your right though and we should never concern ourselves with new strains of viruses.
Originally posted by undersoul
so many people die from the regular flu every year
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