THE INEVITABLE SWINE FLU THREAD: How bad is it where YOU are?

[AFK]

Marilyn Manson has the swine flu

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=127462

Marilyn Manson has revealed his MySpace blog that he has contracted the H1N1 virus (commonly known as swine flu).

"So I have officially been diagnosed, by a real doctor, with THE SWINE FLU," wrote the shock rocker this past Monday (September 21). He then used the opportunity to make a dig at his ex-girlfriends.

"I know everyone will suggest that fucking a pig is how this disease was obtained," he continued. "However, the doctor said, my past choices in women have in no way contributed to me acquiring this mysterious sickness."

[LMNO]

The hell?

Dita Von Teese, Rose McGowan, and Rachel Evan Woods.


If he didn't rip off NIN and Alice Cooper, he'd never bag ass as fine as that.

[Xooxe]

Strangely enough, my son got it, and none of the rest of us did.  Very very odd.

Supposedly, a large proportion of cases have no fever, and many are asymptomatic.

[Jenne]

Strangely enough, my son got it, and none of the rest of us did.  Very very odd.

Supposedly, a large proportion of cases have no fever, and many are asymptomatic.

Yeah, no, I would know if I got this--we got NOTHING afterward.  But that's not untoward--after my husband got ill, I was able to figure out how to keep people isolated if they were ill so none of the rest of us got it.  Not easy, but it just involves a lot of separation and hand-washing.

My husband MAY have had SOMETHING after he left camp (he was one of the on-call docs at the camp), but he had had it when he got there, so I don't believe that he got the flu...just was getting over something else.  It's hard to tell because since he got ill with aplastic anemia 2 years ago, between his meds and what happened to his immune system, he gets these weird things that we can't attribute to anything specific in terms of virus or whatever.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Strangely enough, my son got it, and none of the rest of us did.  Very very odd.

Supposedly, a large proportion of cases have no fever, and many are asymptomatic.

What the hell kind of disease is that? Is it even a disease, if it's asymptomatic? Stupidest flu EVER.

Speaking of which, my housemate has it.

[Chairman Risus]

Strangely enough, my son got it, and none of the rest of us did.  Very very odd.

Supposedly, a large proportion of cases have no fever, and many are asymptomatic.

What the hell kind of disease is that? Is it even a disease, if it's asymptomatic? Stupidest flu EVER.

Speaking of which, my housemate has it.

I'm next to certain that's how you end up winning Pandemic 2

[LMNO]

[Cainad (dec.)]

There's flu shots being made available at my school, and apparently one of the basement suites has been set aside as a quarantine area.

I suppose I should call home and ask if we wanna spend $15 on a shot.

[Jenne]

They are only vaccinating and quarantining folks to stop the spread, not really to keep you from getting it.  Does that make any sense?  See, the pandemic part is what's scaring them--the actual SPREAD.  So vaccinating and isolating those who have symptoms just means they want to keep it from going further, but really, it's another flu, that's it.  Very little about this flu is extraordinary--it's hitting people like flus do--weak, pregnant, young, immuno-compromised.  So when you hear of isolation and mass vaccinations, it's not because you'll become an instant-quadroplegic or break out in puss-festering boils...they just don't want you wiping your nose on your hands and then shaking your neighbor's hand when you see them on the street thereby passing the germs on.

It's inevitable it WILL reach around the world, though...flus do that.  It's like their avocation or something.

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

They are only vaccinating and quarantining folks to stop the spread, not really to keep you from getting it.  Does that make any sense?  See, the pandemic part is what's scaring them--the actual SPREAD.  So vaccinating and isolating those who have symptoms just means they want to keep it from going further, but really, it's another flu, that's it.  Very little about this flu is extraordinary--it's hitting people like flus do--weak, pregnant, young, immuno-compromised.  So when you hear of isolation and mass vaccinations, it's not because you'll become an instant-quadroplegic or break out in puss-festering boils...they just don't want you wiping your nose on your hands and then shaking your neighbor's hand when you see them on the street thereby passing the germs on.

It's inevitable it WILL reach around the world, though...flus do that.  It's like their avocation or something.

Yep, mostly its just that no oone has much in the way of antibodies for this particular genetic strain... not that the strain itself is more terrible than any other flu. I think.

[Jenne]

It's hard to say--so much that's out there so far in the way of data is mostly mean to alarm and portray devastation in the mass media that even doctors are having a rough time deciding what the worst thing about this flu is--the fact it's a FLU or that it's spreading so fast...etc.

So yeah...the hysteria seems hyped rather than warranted.  But maybe because we lived through it so easily I'm just biased and jaded.

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

They told us a few days ago (at work) that someone in the building has it and sure enough,  two people suddenly "felt ill".

The same two people who feel ill when pink eye is even mentioned.
Fucking chronic hand washers.

[Cainad (dec.)]

They are only vaccinating and quarantining folks to stop the spread, not really to keep you from getting it.  Does that make any sense?  See, the pandemic part is what's scaring them--the actual SPREAD.  So vaccinating and isolating those who have symptoms just means they want to keep it from going further, but really, it's another flu, that's it.  Very little about this flu is extraordinary--it's hitting people like flus do--weak, pregnant, young, immuno-compromised.  So when you hear of isolation and mass vaccinations, it's not because you'll become an instant-quadroplegic or break out in puss-festering boils...they just don't want you wiping your nose on your hands and then shaking your neighbor's hand when you see them on the street thereby passing the germs on.

It's inevitable it WILL reach around the world, though...flus do that.  It's like their avocation or something.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure Dr. My Mom, M.D. would have told me to get my ass to the clinic already if there was a serious risk of it actually hurting me. I'm not invincible, but I rarely get sick and tend to bounce back, so I doubt I'm in danger.

[Jenne]

They are only vaccinating and quarantining folks to stop the spread, not really to keep you from getting it.  Does that make any sense?  See, the pandemic part is what's scaring them--the actual SPREAD.  So vaccinating and isolating those who have symptoms just means they want to keep it from going further, but really, it's another flu, that's it.  Very little about this flu is extraordinary--it's hitting people like flus do--weak, pregnant, young, immuno-compromised.  So when you hear of isolation and mass vaccinations, it's not because you'll become an instant-quadroplegic or break out in puss-festering boils...they just don't want you wiping your nose on your hands and then shaking your neighbor's hand when you see them on the street thereby passing the germs on.

It's inevitable it WILL reach around the world, though...flus do that.  It's like their avocation or something.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure Dr. My Mom, M.D. would have told me to get my ass to the clinic already if there was a serious risk of it actually hurting me. I'm not invincible, but I rarely get sick and tend to bounce back, so I doubt I'm in danger.

Dr. My Husband, M.D. has been telling people they should get the flu shots, but mostly because a lot of people in our family have either 1) recently been through surgery 2) recently been ill (him) or have asthma 3) my son (who incidentally lived through it, so whateverthefuck,lol)

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Yeah, as Jenne said the issue with this strain isn't so much the virulence as it is the contagion.

Evidently it's burning its way through the law school at U of O at a pretty spectacular rate.