Swine flu

[bubblewrap]

Not being a cynic some of these press storys are generated from the power's that be to take the population's mind of more serious things that they want us to put into the back of our mind's....jacob

Anybody remember the film "Wag the Dog"?
Free Essay Film Analysis of "Wag the Dog" (political satire)

[TracyP]

Is it like Man Flu with a bad temper?

Sorry....

[bubblewrap]

Is it like Man Flu with a bad temper?

Sorry....

It makes you feel DISGRUNTLED.

[Samwise]

Lol! I've recently been studying flu epidemics at uni and it really freaks you out how fast these things spread but until the strain becomes fatally pathogenic and can spread quickly between humans I'm not gonna worry about it...they probably still have vaccine from the last outbreak of pig flu which is also reassuring!

[zazen999]

92 degrees here today

It is usually 64 and the hottest it had been was 84 in the 1940s. Broke all records apparently.

I woke up with a sore throat and feeling like crap....it's got to be the weather and not swine flu............


Cooler tomorrow at 84 expected..... But back up on Tuesday.

[Samwise]

Glad it's gonna be cooler tomorrow, sposed to get hotter after that here too...here's hoping this isn't gonna be to make up for a rainy summer! Hope you feel better tomorrow

[FionaH]

I woke up with a sore throat and feeling like crap....it's got to be the weather and not swine flu............

Thats not swine flu, its a pig of a hangover

[Samwise]

Lol :P speaking from experience?

[FionaH]

Moi? Never

[zazen999]

Thats not swine flu, its a pig of a hangover

*snorts*

I was really good last night actually......

[lottie dolly]

good morning any body here for a cream cake

[Samwise]

i'm still here, not for much longer though lol how are you?

[zazen999]

I'm here on my own I think - we are staying in for another hour [7:40 here] until it cools down a bit more......I cooked tonight in our apartment and my goodness - it was hot - I had to lie down and have a cool shower after. There's no WAY I'm going across town tonight - so we are staying local in Greenwich Village and will go from Air con bar to another for a few hours. Kill or cure, as my old mate used to say...which means getting a bit worse for wear tonight in the hope that the hangover pushes the sore throat out the way.

[TonyF]

[QUOTE=MrsC;436806
If the Government had huge stocks of anti-viral to deal with it, then they must have known about it? Can't stock it overnight can they? So if this so called 'swine flu' is real and serious etc etc then an early warning would have been put out and measures put in place. Sorry, just don't buy the whole 'swine flu' pandemic rubbish! Not having a go at you Tony or anything [/QUOTE]

No, they didn't know about it, they hold the stocks of flu anti-virals all the time as they do here in France 'just in case' after all the hype about avian flu. They just don't want to be caught with anything like the pandemic of 1918/1919 so have the stocks ready and waiting.

[bluemoon]

Lol! I've recently been studying flu epidemics at uni and it really freaks you out how fast these things spread but until the strain becomes fatally pathogenic and can spread quickly between humans I'm not gonna worry about it...they probably still have vaccine from the last outbreak of pig flu which is also reassuring!

Samwise: Do NOT listen to the 'flu lectures. I did and it scared me silly for about ten years. Cholera, Ebola virus, bubonic plague.... they're just academic, - and avoidable, but when they start telling you that you could set off for work feeling fine and an hour later, when the packed tube train empties, you fall over dead because the other passengers had been unknowingly holding your body upright until that point, and all you had was a strain of 'flu, then you start to worry... seriously worry.
My doctors agreed to give me a 'flu jab every year, not because I was elderly, ill or had any other health problems but because the 'flu lectures terrified me and I'd become truly neurotic. So, take my advice, if it says 'flu lecture on your time table, go to the pub instead.

PS, I got over it in the end and now wouldn't even bother with a Lemsip