NEWS: El Flu Is Going To Murder You

Ferretbite said:

Other side of the country but there were some cases recently over there as well. Well, last week, anyway. My test was negative so no 'Chronicles of the Infected' from me.

hoorayparade said:
i may regret ever bringing this up buuuuuuuuuuuuut......

WHO Tells Members It Is Declaring Flu Pandemic

joydiv said:

*sigh* God, I hope this doesn't become a story again. I'd seriously suffer the swine flu if the universe promised I'd never have to hear about it again.

joydiv said:

*sigh* God, I hope this doesn't become a story again. I'd seriously suffer the swine flu if the universe promised I'd never have to hear about it again.

SockPuppet said:
The British Government has abandoned containment as policy, since it's no longer tenable.
source

nicole_powers said:
Oh joy. The Daily Mail "reports":

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Stiles said:

Yep, they've doubled...

to 14.

pomfelo said:

Whoa whoa whoa whoa! Don't let some context slip through into a good panic story.

FearTheReaper said:
Right. Oh, by the way, the flu is supposed to drop to barely existent numbers during the summer. The fact that it is increasing was considered to be the #1 bad sign of things to come.

But, yeah, people dying and cases increasing is no big deal.

Toku666 said:

In America there can only ever be two choices for anything. This apparently includes response to flu outbreaks. We can only "panic" or "ignore" it.

I really prefer to just keep an eye on it. It continues to be depressing to me that many overreacted to this flu (especially the stupid mainstream media) but it is equally puzzling how so many are just yawning their way through it as if it has no importance at all. The fact is that there are lots of complicated ways H1N1 could get much, much worse all over the planet.

It's odd to see some who are so vigilant in other threads about racism appearing to blithely ignore the southern hemisphere in this thread.

Toku666 said:

In America there can only ever be two choices for anything. This apparently includes response to flu outbreaks. We can only "panic" or "ignore" it.

I really prefer to just keep an eye on it. It continues to be depressing to me that many overreacted to this flu (especially the stupid mainstream media) but it is equally puzzling how so many are just yawning their way through it as if it has no importance at all. The fact is that there are lots of complicated ways H1N1 could get much, much worse all over the planet.

It's odd to see some who are so vigilant in other threads about racism appearing to blithely ignore the southern hemisphere in this thread.

Geneva - The World Health Organisation said on Friday that the H1N1 flu pandemic is moving around the globe at an "unprecedented" speed as it stopped giving figures on numbers affected.

The influenza pandemic had "spread internationally with unprecedented speed", according to the global health watchdog.

"In past pandemics, influenza viruses have needed more than six months to spread as widely as the new H1N1 virus has spread in less than six weeks," the WHO said.

Neyrissa said:
My sister came down with it and was fine after feeling really very shit for a week. She's in a risk group (kidney disease) and was officially tested & monitored but was fine.

Someone in my office is reputed to have it but is over the worst of it after 5 days. She's also apparently immunocompromised.

It's the flu. Deal with it. Yes, 29 official deaths have been reported in the UK but for fuck's sake, more people die in bus accidents than that. I think more people probably die from tripping over the kerb than that. (no I haven't looked up stats on that, I'm pulling it out of the air).

FearTheReaper said:
You don't know much about the Swing Flu, do you?

motorfirebox said:

it's related to the Rockin' Pneumonia, isn't it?

Neyrissa said:
My sister came down with it and was fine after feeling really very shit for a week. She's in a risk group (kidney disease) and was officially tested & monitored but was fine.

Someone in my office is reputed to have it but is over the worst of it after 5 days. She's also apparently immunocompromised.

It's the flu. Deal with it. Yes, 29 official deaths have been reported in the UK but for fuck's sake, more people die in bus accidents than that. I think more people probably die from tripping over the kerb than that. (no I haven't looked up stats on that, I'm pulling it out of the air).

Neyrissa said:
I did 2 years of a Microbiology degree and I'm well accquainted with recombinant viruses, etc, and how dynamic the flu genome is. However, there's nothing we can do about that..

Neyrissa said:
I did 2 years of a Microbiology degree and I'm well accquainted with recombinant viruses, etc, and how dynamic the flu genome is. However, there's nothing we can do about that. No vaccine could cover it, no preventative measures will stop it. (and for fuck's sake people, antibacterial hand gel won't kill a virus)

Normal, seasonal flu is pandemic. So is swine flu. And?

I'm just fed up of the constant panic everywhere about it. I'm also fucking sick of everyone who says they have swine flu when they've got a cold. I loathe people who say "I've got the flu" when they have a cold.