are you scared of the PIG FLU????

[austinpetemo]

everyone is spazzin out and makin a big deal about this PIG FLU saying its a pandemic and its gonna be huge. personally i thinks it a load of crap and is just a big scare like the bird flu and west nile and mad cow disease. what do you think???

[jpappy789]

While it's a serious disease I don't think its going to be as widespread as many people believe. I'm personally not all that worried.

[austinpetemo]

god dangit i hate macbooks. i meant to put Swine flu in the question on the poll and the 4th awnser was supposed to say "whats swine flu" but my macbook posted it the way it is. can a mod plz change it for me?

[fishrdelish]

I'd rather sit at home with a fever than go to work, so I hope I do get the pig flu. :lipssealedsmilie:

[Inka4040]

Same panic every year... Next year it'll be puppy flu or some other sufficiently terror inducing scenario. At this rate, by the time I have kids, the meaning of the word pandemic probably won't be much different from the sniffles.

[jpappy789]

Umm, you wouldn't be sitting at home. ;)

[austinpetemo]

im going to start the next one. im going to expose my endlers to extreme levels of bacteria and inject them with flu stuff. than i am going to let them form a virus. then in mass numbers release them into the water ways and spread the disease to people. it shall be called. THE GUPPY FLU!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Lupin]

No.

[Juggalo3597]

:huh:i haven't herd of this flu

[Hurley]

Considering my campus had 4 cdc confirmed cases announced today and 12 other probable cases that are waiting cdc confirmation I'm a little worried. But, I haven't changed my habits at all. I will be much more worried if people/classmates start to die.

[tjroihenu]

Flu?

I had Pork Chops yesterday for Dinner. Yum..

[Somervell]

I teach at a college, and the news has my students in an absolute flurry. Mutated strain... okay, could be worse than the standard flu in severity, could be the same-- just different. I think it will end up like the SARS "pandemic"-Lysol, Ibuprofen, chicken soup, kleenex and three to four sick days and most sufferers will be good to go. MRSA was much more frightening.

[excuzzzeme]

Better than exposing any portion of yourself and a lot safer for all of us!

Let's get real for once. The media sensationalizes everything they can to get their ratings up. Pandemic actually mean an epidemic of an infectious disease that is wide spread. Considering how many cases are being reported I would hardly classify this as being of epidemic proportions. The fact that many are actually recovering from it rather than dying, gives me pause as to how it should be properly classified.

This is not to say that it isn't serious since it certainly is, but why run around thinking it's going to be lethal to all that contract it? Certainly appropriate perspective is in order and the hand-wringing needs to stop. The only way this qualifies as a pandemic is because it's new, infectious, and widespread. Remove any one qualifier and it is no longer considered a pandemic.


Inka404...Same panic every year... Next year it'll be puppy flu or some other sufficiently terror inducing scenario.:rofl:

[Hooked Newbie]

Media fearmongering don't skeer me. **** sheeple are too easily led around by the nose.

[coach_z]

i had pork for dinner twice this week!

[jpappy789]

im going to start the next one. im going to expose my endlers to extreme levels of bacteria and inject them with flu stuff. than i am going to let them form a virus. then in mass numbers release them into the water ways and spread the disease to people. it shall be called. THE GUPPY FLU!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wouldn't that be endler flu then? :huh:

Media fearmongering don't skeer me. **** sheeple are too easily led around by the nose.
:rofl: sheeple

[jm1212]

no, not at all.

bring it on.

[FireDancer7905]

Scared of any virus, only because I have an infant now. :)

[PuppyFluffer]

Nope, not at all.

And as for having children, I've got three, one an infant. I put far more faith in my ability to properly nourish my children and build healthy immune systems in them than any pharmaceutical product could ever "protect" them.

[petluvr]

I teach at a college, and the news has my students in an absolute flurry. Mutated strain... okay, could be worse than the standard flu in severity, could be the same-- just different. I think it will end up like the SARS "pandemic"-Lysol, Ibuprofen, chicken soup, kleenex and three to four sick days and most sufferers will be good to go. MRSA was much more frightening.
Speaking from someone who has had MRSA I would rather have an alien flu than that again:)

[bkw1982]

Swine Flu vaccine=Zombie cocktail

I know I've done the research

[debaric]

if you were to get it, you would probably have a hell of a time shaking it off but like any flu your body will fight it off unless youre immunocomprimised.

The media is ridiculous, getting everybody scared to death from a strain of flu that has affected what, just over a hundred people in this country? Are you kidding me? How many thousands of people die each year from regular flu?
A vaccine will be created and next year there will be a fishy flu that the entire country will have to panic about, thanks to the media.

[The Zigman]

I am not a pig!!
Why should I worry?

[debaric]

id like to add, i like this board because so many of us actually have science backgrounds and are somewhat intelligent and know the basic principles behind infectious diseases.

Also, I had the DEADLY MRSA last year that I contracted from grappling. You know, the killer bacterial staph that has been around for a hundred years or so. My leg swelled up pretty nicely and it was kind of painful. Went to the doctor, she gave me an antibiotic, and it went away in a week.

Granted, I probably would have died if I had ignored it but how dumb can you be to ignore and infection that creeps up your limb and swells?

[debaric]

Speaking from someone who has had MRSA I would rather have an alien flu than that again:)

how did your course of treatment go?

[petluvr]

how did your course of treatment go?
Mine was a bit different since I had it in my eyes:eek3: Yes I said in my eyes, mainly the left eye. I still to this day see halos and my vision is EXTREMLY impaired in that eye. I was seen by a specialist at the University of Virginia who put me on steriodal eye drops along with this gunky steriod gel stuff that I had to rub in my eyes 3 times per day and some type of antibiotic that I don't remember the name of. It took almost 3 months before I could go back to work and like a month before I stopped waking up every morning with my eyes totally sealed shut and having to hold hot compresses on them to get them to even open. UUUGGHHH just thinking about it makes me sick to my stomach. The oddest thing about it was that my eyes at times would actually bleed, like tears of blood. It scared the living you know what out of me the first time, I guess I never really thought your eyes could bleed like that.

[debaric]

omg, i guess i was really lucky.

[petluvr]

It was for sure not something I would want to happen again. Where did you have it?

[MikeCollazo]

Pig flu hit my town in 805 Oxnard Ca today. Two schools closed completely a few blocks from where I go to college.

(Scary Music) Dun Dun Dun!

[FireDancer7905]

How many thousands of people die each year from regular flu?


Roughly 30, 000.

[My_Goldie]

I'm not afraid of it. A bit wary and cautious yes, but only because I am one of the people considered to be in the danger zone for it and just about every other flu.
Flu season comes and goes every year. I just have to be a bit more careful with what I do at those times.

The media is just blowing it up.

[excuzzzeme]

The media gets everyone all jacked up over a topic and then bring in a panel of supposed "experts" that tell us what we already know and what common sense dictates. You need to listen to only one panel of "experts" to realize you already know more than they do. It's like standing in front of a burning house and the fireman looks at you and says "I am a fire expert because I have 30+ years of fire fighting and that house is on fire!" Duhhh, really? I need you to tell me that?

Common sense will do you more good than all the news stories ever could. As far as infants goes, they are far more protected than you are because they are kept clean, well rested, well fed, and rarely exposed to situations that would put them at risk.

No, it wont stop me from eating fish, pork, beef, bird, veggies, or fruit.

Get a grip on reality!

[kalabreeze]

Eating pork is fine, swine flu does not spread through meat.

"Influenza spreads between humans through coughing or sneezing and people touching something with the virus on it and then touching their own nose or mouth. Swine flu cannot be spread by pork products, since the virus is not transmitted through food."

I am not going to panic just yet, people die from flu every year, swine or not.

[kyryah]

At least there are level headed people on this forum...

Kristina

[kog]

I dont want swine flu, so yes?

[starrystarstarr]

im right next to the border.. and went to mexico last month...im fine right now..but its a bit scary. just take acre of your self like you would with regular flue season.

[kjr928]

I will conquer any flu! The flu should get a vaccine against me!

[faun]

I think a lot of this is just media hype and scaremongering yeah flu is nasty but it could be a lot worse like the poor people above who had mrsa.

[Dwarf Puffers]

I voted "Heck yes!", anyone else notice the polling option says BIRD flu?

[PuppyFluffer]

So why do you guys think they are hyping and scaremongering? I'm curious as to what people think is the end desire of this hype?

[Lupin]

I voted "Heck yes!", anyone else notice the polling option says BIRD flu?
I just noticed.:perv:

[Hooked Newbie]

So why do you guys think they are hyping and scaremongering? I'm curious as to what people think is the end desire of this hype?


Increased viewership for the news outlets. Increased control for the government. Scared masses will accept alot. Wait for the new legislation that "protects us" (read: strips away individual rights) to come out. No telling what will be targetted.

Mods- feel free to delete if inappropriate. I couldn't live with myself if I didn't at least post it though. :)

[dlk]

I think a lot of this is just media hype and scaremongering yeah flu is nasty but it could be a lot worse like the poor people above who had mrsa.


I'm with you.....there is too many discrpencies (spelling) in the stories that are going around by the officals.

[PuppyFluffer]

HN, I agree with you.

I also suspect pharmaceutical company profits.

[Fish-Addict]

Pig flu? Is that the same as swine flu? If so Im not worried. The NHS have ordered over 32'000'000 face masks. That is so many face masks! and it still wont be enough for EVERYONE

[jpappy789]

The media will sensationalize every story they can get their hands on...it's no different here.

[FireDancer7905]

Just thought I'd share that my 12 year old sister is very sick with swine flu, is under observation, and may be admitted...... yeah. Slightly scared.

[petluvr]

So sorry to hear that^^^

[Inka4040]

Surprised this hasn't been mentioned yet... Apparently out of the 150 or so "confirmed" deaths due to swine flu, only 22 ended up being real. So there you have it,over a thousand cases worldwide, and only 22 actual deaths.