Flu "pandemic"

[slofox]

Well...that should keep W.H.O. happy - '"swine flu" is rampant' they scream. 'Everybody stay home - gobble up tamiflu - wrap your kids in cotton wool and stick 'em in glass cases...' Just heard someone canceled their trip to Mexico despite going to a place 1000km away from the outbreak...talk about over-reaction...

Dunno about anyone else but I could feel the glee as I listened to the first reports from the chief boohoo of W.H.O. Sounds like a media beatup to me. Flu. Pah. I seem to recall the race surviving all the flu epidemics that came through when I was a kid. Guess we must have got soft in modern times huh..?

[Mikkel]

Well, the world could do with a decent pandemic around now. Something a bit more potent than the flu wouldn't hurt either.

[Hitcher]

Time will tell whether people have massively over-reacted. Or not.

[Fatt Max]

Well...that should keep W.H.O. happy - '"swine flu" is rampant' they scream. 'Everybody stay home - gobble up tamiflu - wrap your kids in cotton wool and stick 'em in glass cases...' Just heard someone canceled their trip to Mexico despite going to a place 1000km away from the outbreak...talk about over-reaction...

Dunno about anyone else but I could feel the glee as I listened to the first reports from the chief boohoo of W.H.O. Sounds like a media beatup to me. Flu. Pah. I seem to recall the race surviving all the flu epidemics that came through when I was a kid. Guess we must have got soft in modern times huh..?

Well said sir, well said.

Now the Emergency Response teams that consist of office dwellers (not the fire and ambo guys, I mean the white collar 'Policy & Procedure' authors) can don their visibility vests, grab a 2 way radio (with earpiece of course), hang an ID tag around their necks and practice the 'All Point Scenario' nonsense that they waste yours and my tax money putting together.

Trouble is, if we do get a real problem, these are the guys who have booke themselves on the first flight out on Air Armageddon (Armegeddon outta here).

I did catch bird flu though in 2003 I think it was. The symptoms for males are:

- Start looking for shoes that match my trousers
- swapping receipes with the girls at work
- Moan about men
- Totally forget how to parallel park, use a pay machine in the car park and not using mirrors other than for fixing my hair
- Farts are no longer funny
- Beer is horrible, Cab Sav please
- Preferring to make salads in the kitchen rather than satnd around the bar b
- Realising my bum does look big in everything, and
- Not liking it up the chocolate starfish anymore

I wonder if swine flu makes you look like tha Big Save Furniture chick, the Briscoes lady or any female from the east end of London...?

[tri boy]

I havn't seen, or heard any massive over reaction.
I'm pleased that W.H.O are taking these things seriously.
People have died from some form of flu, and in 1918 over 2 million people also died from something similar.
Best thing that can happen, is Govt's stay out of meddling in this affair, and let the scientists/medical organisations work through the threat.
MHO

[slofox]

I havn't seen, or heard any massive over reaction.

Just heard someone canceled their trip to Mexico despite going to a place 1000km away from the outbreak...

I rest my case...

[The Stranger:Me]

I seem to recall the race surviving all the flu epidemics that came through when I was a kid. Guess we must have got soft in modern times huh..?

Sure the race did, however the 1918 flu pandemic supposedly infected up to a billion people and killed between 20 and a 100 million people.
Some have longer memories than you do perhaps.

[ManDownUnder]

I'd rather over-react and be too well prepared than the opposite. I'm of an age etc where I'd expect to be fine - but I have people near and dear to me that might not.

[slofox]

Pandemics are just the planet's way of fighting human overpopulation...I'm doing my bit to help - I ride a motorbike, don't I...

[Maha]

Mad Cow Disease...
Y2K.....was never going to kill anyone but what a snore.....
Bird Flu....
Swine flu....

Personally, I would more worried about the 'Slightly irritating Wombat Cough' should it ever take off.

[Finn]

As long as it doesn't hit Auckland, NZ will be fine.

[Murray]

As long as it doesn't hit Auckland, NZ will be fine.

Looks like it hit the Blues Rugby team on the weekend!!

[Fatt Max]

First confirmed case in NZ now official....

[Finn]

Looks like it hit the Blues Rugby team on the weekend!!

Well they do all look Mexican.

[James Deuce]

Well, the world could do with a decent pandemic around now. Something a bit more potent than the flu wouldn't hurt either.

Contrary to popular opinion (and experience), influenza is death on a stick. Very few people have suffered from it in the western world since 1918. I've been hospitalised with modern variants of the 1918 'flu 3 times in the last 2 years, twice ending up with pneumonia. If you didn't end up in hospital, you didn't have influenza, you had a non-specific viral infection. Surviving influenza is largely luck and rapid treatment of secondary infections.

Tamiflu does nothing. Expensive Placebo dressed up in marketing speak and packaging.

If you're gonna die, die with your boots on.