It's been 9 days since it started for me. I'm feeling much better, but still have some chest congestion and cough.

I went to work this morning. The supervisor heard me coughing and sent me home.
Time to break out the dreaded Mucinex. (shudders)

If by "spring" you mean "rain" then yes, we are.

I got a flu April 6 and am still a bit sick. The worst is the dry cough at night that makes it hard to fall asleep. One of my kids (in high school) had a flu April 1, and officially, that's too early to be swine flu, but if the epidemic was quietly underway in Mexico for weeks or month before it was noticed, it could have been carried here by his classmates who went down there on high school March Break March 14-22. So it's theoretically possible my family are affected by the H1N1 flu, and of course none of us have been tested for flu subtype.

So far the pandemic itself is turning out to be very unworthy of all the hype surrounding it. Still, where I work they are calling people and telling them not to come if they have flu symptoms. We never do that during regular flu season.

Has anybody NOT thought of faking swine flu ?
A month off with pay?
I'm not ambitious/savvy enough for a bunko job.

Sooooo,where are the killer bees and man eating pitbulls at nowdays??

we have ahd 2 outbreaks of this flu strain in the past....every one forgets.....1976 US - 1 death from the flu and 25 deaths from the fear that the media inflicted.

It looks like media hype may have cost our respective nations many millions of dollars in wasted panic stations. Shame, I was kind of looking forward to an apocalyptic event in my lifetime. Maybe I'll invent my own.

The rest of us could take a good example!

I sort of hate to spoil your fun, since you seem to enjoy being alarmed (and trying to alarm others), but the CDC has determined that this flu lacks the genes that made the 1918 strain so lethal.

My company is tracking all cases for employees and their family on a big spreadsheet. I only know because they sent me the disaster of a sheet so I could make it usable from what they originally created.
Locally there are two school districts closed, youth sports are canceled which means the office is very empty because all the parents are taking care of their kids. The roads seems busier during the day with all the teens out like it is summer. Parents are certainly not keeping their kids in they are going to movies, the mall and if there was a problem they would be passing it around to everyone not just other students.

We're in the middle of re-writing our business continuity plans, so it's one more thing to talk about.

No impact other than that. I am a little concerned that a couple of kids will "look sick" and get a local school system shut down, leading to an abnormally large number of people working from home.

my girlfriend and i are feeling a little weird....

Coffee, beer, and weed prevent swine flu. I don't have swine flu. See, it works!

https://flutracker.rhizalabs.com/ Here's the flu tracker...hopefully, it's hype

Seriously folks. We really have to stop being such dumb*****es and stop believing the crap we see on T.V. You think its there to inform us??? HAHA if you do i have some used condoms I can sell you. The world health orginazation are the folks that put out this kind of hype when it comes to crap like this i.e. SARS, salmonella poisening from eggs, and pretty much every outbreak thats supposed to kill off the planet but never ever does. We have to remember something about the W.H.O. These were the same clowns that went to africa,haiti, crackheads to give vacinations. The result was they left a trail of A.I.D.S victims and used the media to make the world believe AIDS came from monkeys and gays. or gays having sex with monkeys probably would have worked becuase people are so damn gullable they will believe anything. People never learn and fall for the same B.S. all the time. So sad, and complete insanity.

How about we turn off the idiot make you brain dead and unconcious boxe (tv) pick the wool out of our eyeballs and read a few articles:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/ar...ared-time.html

https://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/...ases-rise.html

https://www.wiseupjournal.com/?p=898

https://mb.com.ph/articles/204124/mex...oll-down-seven

On April 2nd and 3rd about 25 people (that's about 20-25% of the workforce) at my job in Manhattan came down with a sudden flu-like illness. A few people were acutely ill for two to four days with vomiting and diarrhea; others such as myself only had about 24 hours of aches, fatigue, and mild fever. Noone's been tested since we were all recovered by the time the story broke, but I'm convinced we had swine flu (ok ok, type-A H1N1 influenza) because one of my coworkers returned from a trip to Mexico with the sniffles about two days before everyone got sick, everyone got sick within a shockingly small timeframe, and the symptomology matches exactly.

This is why epidemiology is a very inexact science. Such a small portion of possible cases get tested that they only see localized snapshots and don't get the big picture. My flu story above is similar - a possible Mexican connection, but a week or two before the alerts went out, so no testing.

Very true, cooker. But if you're still a little bit sick now four weeks later as you mentioned in your previous post, you should probably get checked out anyway.

Ooo, thanks for the info.

Read my post again in its context; I was replying to the postulate that a virus similar to the 1918 strain wouldn't have the same affect today. I wasn't saying this current flu would be just as lethal. In fact I specifically said that hard info was lacking about this virus: "First I must say that there really isn't that much information on what is going on regarding autopsies etc. Have people really died from cytokine storm or not. Is it true that several doctors and nurses that have treated victims have died from the flu too? So everything is pretty much speculation right now." Hardly alarmist talk.

It is great to hear that some real experts suggest that the virus as it is right now isn't cause for any special concern when looking at the genetic mark up of the virus. Still, there is a lot of unanswered questions regarding who died, their age group, why they died, and how they died.

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Regards

Well, sure. In epidemiology there are always unanswered questions. There are also an awful lot of moonbats who get more fun out of awfulizing and inventing tinfoil-hat conspiracies than they do out of the facts, which are generally rather less dire and dramatic. Sorry if I thought you resembled a moonbat there for a bit with the talk about people dropping dead on streetcars and such.

It's just making me lol a bit more.

The hype is tiresome. I am taking no extra precautions. We do have two confirmed cases in the area. The second one was an elementary school teacher. She went to the doctor with the flu who was going to call her back with test results. She then went to school. Fool.

https://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/21578

Yeah, except that no doctor is likely to order the $100 (or whatever it costs) test. Anyway, at this point I don't particularily want to be confirmed as having H1N1 - it would be inconvenient.