Anyone here gotten Swine Flu.

[Amarok]

More people die from falling out of bed a year than from swine flu

This thread isn't about Swine Flu mortality rates, it's about if anyone on the escapist has it.

*gathers phelgm for a particularly dramatic yell*
YOU FAIL!
*swallows*

Anyway, no I don't have Swine Flu, but I hope ye recover speedily, Mr. OP

 

[killcheese]

yep, then gave it to my sister and mom.(confirmed by doc)

 

[Crudler]

Nope but many many people I know have it. Hampshire seems rife with the blighted thing.
Only a matter of time for me, usually *always* ill.

Thing about Swine Flu isn't that it's a pretty dangerous strain, in fact it's less deadly than the more common strains. What makes it a problem is that it just spreads so well being so bloody infective.

 

[AdambotLive]

my sister may have it.

 

[Kuchinawa212]

I'm sorry.
But No I have not gotten the swine flu.
Hope you feel better!

 

[Sneaky Paladin]

Unless it starts turning people into zombies. Then I will be worried.

just wait that first kid who died of it will re-animate any day now

 

[dalek sec]

Nope and no I know has it.

 

[Valkyira]

I couldn't care less. Its no more dangerous than regular flu. The media have blown it way out of proportion. There is nothing to worry about.

 

[Aunel]

What are it's symptoms, I thought it was just a over hyped cold, but not walking around, shit that is bad.
and is quarantine, are the guys really worried? (hasmat suits, gas masks etc etc)

 

[SimuLord]

Nope, though a few people at my college have gotten it and been quarantined.
Really, all H1N1 is is a new strain of influenza. We get those ALL THE TIME. The flu mutates ALL THE TIME. There's nothing that threatening about this disease.

Doesn't change the fact that having the flu SUCKS with a capital 'sucks'. Last time I had the flu was in November of '07---over Thanksgiving. I had to cancel a Turkey Day get-together with friends I only see (at most) once a year, which left me mad as hell---at the start of my least favorite time of the year (Holiday shopping season). I was surly throughout December.

 

[Piorn]

What about the other diseases from the last years? Are they actually extinct, or do they still exist? And why does nobody care about it anymore? BSE, bird flu, anyone?

 

[Kushin]

Not had it, not known anyone personally who has had/got it. Maybe its just the fact that I'm one lucky Sonnuvabitch or that an immune system that is naturally immune to TB can handle some pissant little influenza strain.

Hope you get better soon though, even if its 'minor' its still meant to be pretty nasty.

 

[joe182]

Unless it starts turning people into zombies. Then I will be worried.

I had a dream when exactly that happened last night, that was some scary shit :|

 

[Jay Cee]

I've never had swine flu, I've had normal flu though and I felt like I was dying.
If swine flu is meant to be worse than normal flu then... well, you must feel like hell.

Get well soon. [http://www.rchmtayr.org/ecard/images/large/kitten.jpg]

It's no worse.

The Media have exercised their usual method exaggerating the severity of the illness.
Swine flu shares IDENTICAL symptoms with regular flu, but is sourced from another location.
It's a total fallacy that it poses a threat since it's just as dangerous as any influenza, which isn't very much.

You don't need to fear it...
You know what you SHOULD fear? Super-aids.

 

[Rensenhito]

Nope, though a few people at my college have gotten it and been quarantined.
Really, all H1N1 is is a new strain of influenza. We get those ALL THE TIME. The flu mutates ALL THE TIME. There's nothing that threatening about this disease.

Except that the Flu kills people.

Let me elaborate: there's nothing UNUSUALLY threatening about this disease. For some people, such as those with weakened immune systems, it could indeed be fatal. For the rest of us, it just means spending a crappy week at home.

 

[theultimateend]

Nope, though a few people at my college have gotten it and been quarantined.
Really, all H1N1 is is a new strain of influenza. We get those ALL THE TIME. The flu mutates ALL THE TIME. There's nothing that threatening about this disease.

Except that the Flu kills people.

Let me elaborate: there's nothing UNUSUALLY threatening about this disease. For some people, such as those with weakened immune systems, it could indeed be fatal. For the rest of us, it just means spending a crappy week at home.

Oh well in that case I fully agree.

I just thought you were trying to say that the flu is all flowery or something . It has a pretty impressive kill count each year if I'm not mistaken (100k or something like that?)

 

[DigitalSushi]

I have some kind of flu, i.e. have a bad head, stuffy nose, constant lethargy and a bit of a bad throat, but I don't wanna waste my summer moping around, swine flu or not. I'm just keeping it to myself and going out partying anyway.

Swine flu is over hyped anyway.

That's how I feel too, I've been told its swine flu by my Doctor, he lives like 4 doors away from me.