FTA: "Children should wash their hands, use sanitizer and wash any fruit or other food."

Wash the fruit? In my day, we threw that back at the house that gave it out.

Only if someone is handing out chocolate covered Bacon.



//mmmmmmmmmmmmm bacon.

Why yes, yes it will be infected. In fact, after I finish putting razor blades inside those little Twix bars, I'm going to sneeze all over them, reseal the package, and sneeze on them again. Because I hate kids and I hate Halloween.

Your children can avoid H1N1 by dropping under their desks and covering when they see the flash.

It doesn't say whether condoms protect against swine flu--off to Yahoo Answers, I guess.

Didn't drew predict this last week?

"will my child's Halloween candy be infected?"

Eventually. Your kid's Halloween candy will be poop, too. And, frankly, most of it isn't that great to begin with.

Back in my day, we died of the flu at least once a year, and it never hurt us one bit.

Again, swine flu is bad. It's seemingly getting worse, as the death toll as of late has increased. Virginia alone had 90 deaths last week. And it's highly infectious.

But people, let's be real here. This is not going to be Captain Tripps. Most of us that catch it will feel one hell of a case of the sniffles be in bed for a week, and be back and at it in five to seven days. Get your flu shot, and if you do catch PigPox, drink lots of water and stay home on your couch.

Everyone needs to calm down. Halloween candy being infected? Seriously? Now, sure, you take your kids to a mall for Trick-or-Treating, there is a chance of infection because of all the kids running around, coughing and touching everything. But that goes for any large group of people/kids, like their own damn school building.

Sometimes, you just have to roll the dice in life and hope it doesn't come up snake eyes. This is one of those cases. Don't go around licking doorknobs, but live your damn lives.

/had my H1N1 shot thanks to the EMS service board, no side effects yet
//been exposed to 6 patients with confirmed H1N1 so far
///not dead yet

I don't know about the rest of you, but I am getting kinda worn out with all this non-kosher influenza whining....

ne2d: It doesn't say whether condoms protect against swine flu--off to Yahoo Answers, I guess.

As someone that has swine flu right now, from sexual relations.. kicks, etc, etc.

Thisbymaster: Didn't drew predict this last week?

He predicted an article about Thanksgiving turkey causing H1N1. Pretty damned close.

VinceCCSP: ne2d: It doesn't say whether condoms protect against swine flu--off to Yahoo Answers, I guess.

As someone that has swine flu right now, from sexual relations.. kicks, etc, etc.

I'm saying this from a place of love... Stop f-ing pigs. It makes the bacon taste funny.

-F

VinceCCSP: As someone that has swine flu right now

it was nice knowing you. :(

ne2d: It doesn't say whether condoms protect against swine flu--off to Yahoo Answers, I guess.

Heavy Halloween!! :)

Frosty_Icehole: ne2d: It doesn't say whether condoms protect against swine flu--off to Yahoo Answers, I guess.

Heavy Halloween!! :)

How is babby flued?

Shadowknight: Again, swine flu is bad. It's seemingly getting worse, as the death toll as of late has increased. Virginia alone had 90 deaths last week. And it's highly infectious.


Try 11 since June.

http://www.vdh.state.va.us/epidemiology/DiseasePrevention/H1N1/H1N1Tracking.htm

It is always important to rub used jawbreakers in your trick or treater's eye socket in order to form a protective coating against aerosolized salivary droplets.

I just did a 7 day tour of swine flu and it sucked, but not a lot worse than the regular flu. It is highly contaigous though, it tore through my house like wildfire. Wifey and two sons all sick within days of each other. Stock up on tylenol for the fever, ginger ale for the dehydration, and prepare to be reminded of why you hate daytime television...

Shadowknight [TotalFark] Quote 2009-10-28 09:09:56 AM
Again, swine flu is bad. It's seemingly getting worse, as the death toll as of late has increased. Virginia alone had 90 deaths last week. And it's highly infectious.

But people, let's be real here. This is not going to be Captain Tripps. Most of us that catch it will feel one hell of a case of the sniffles be in bed for a week, and be back and at it in five to seven days. Get your flu shot, and if you do catch PigPox, drink lots of water and stay home on your couch.

Everyone needs to calm down. Halloween candy being infected? Seriously? Now, sure, you take your kids to a mall for Trick-or-Treating, there is a chance of infection because of all the kids running around, coughing and touching everything. But that goes for any large group of people/kids, like their own damn school building.

Sometimes, you just have to roll the dice in life and hope it doesn't come up snake eyes. This is one of those cases. Don't go around licking doorknobs, but live your damn lives.

/had my H1N1 shot thanks to the EMS service board, no side effects yet
//been exposed to 6 patients with confirmed H1N1 so far
///not dead yet

Thanks. It seems to be hitting the kids the hardest. A 13 year old hockey player in Toronto died over the weekend after a hockey tournament. Perhaps exposing his team and everyone else that attended the tournament. I feel for his parents, but also wonder what kind of virulent disease kills a normally healthy adolescent within 48hrs of contact.

H1N1 = Fear Mongering at it's best.

I feel for his parents, but also wonder what kind of virulent disease kills a normally healthy adolescent within 48hrs of contact.

The phrase to google / wiki is 'cytokine storm'. Not a crappy X-Men miniseries, either.

foo monkey: Shadowknight: Again, swine flu is bad. It's seemingly getting worse, as the death toll as of late has increased. Virginia alone had 90 deaths last week. And it's highly infectious.


Try 11 since June.

http://www.vdh.state.va.us/epidemiology/DiseasePrevention/H1N1/H1N1Tracking.htm

DAMN YOU WORD OF MOUTH!

Yeah, that's what I get for listening to the firehouse chatter. Thanks for the correction and pointing out that I am talking straight out my ass.

Still, the other things I stated about it (infectious, particularly nasty, couple days on the couch ect...) were true.

Maybe the Chief meant 90 nationwide last week instead of just in Virginia. I should have known to fact check him, the guy is kind of a putz.

/who's the bigger putz, the putz or the guy who LISTENS to the putz?
//one more putz for good measure

Fear Mongering at it's best.

You'd do well to fear mongering. Mongering may very well kill us all. It's happened before!

ne2d: It doesn't say whether condoms protect against swine flu--off to Yahoo Answers, I guess.

Probably, but they taste like shiat and are chewy as hell. Could be a choking hazard too.

VinceCCSP: ne2d: It doesn't say whether condoms protect against swine flu--off to Yahoo Answers, I guess.

As someone that has swine flu right now, from sexual relations.. kicks, etc, etc.

What's it like? sex that is.

wademh: What's it like? sex that is.

With swine flu? Hot, achy and painful at times, sweaty, and awkward. So pretty much like usual.

IEatANimaLs: I just did a 7 day tour of swine flu and it sucked, but not a lot worse than the regular flu. It is highly contaigous though, it tore through my house like wildfire. Wifey and two sons all sick within days of each other. Stock up on tylenol for the fever, ginger ale for the dehydration, and prepare to be reminded of why you hate daytime television...

We had it also - but just me and my daughter. My wife and son didn't get it (they both had sinus infections at the same time so maybe it couldn't penetrate the snot shield).

It was odd - it hit my daughter last Monday and me Monday night. It was the worst on the first day - horrible joint and muscle aches, high fever, headache that wouldn't go away, nausea, etc. Then my fever spiked, I started sweating horrendously and got very nauseous. After that, the worst was over and it was just headache and cough and a low grade fever. Within a few hours, the exact same thing happened to my daughter. Fever spiked to 103, she ran into the bathroom because she thought she was going to throw up and after 30 minutes, it passed and left just the same cough, headache and low fever. Hers passed completely the next day but mine took 5 more days to go away. We both still have a sporadic hacking cough.

For added suckage, our U-Verse DVR crapped out on Tuesday so all of the shows I could have caught up on were gone.

Jeepman1974: H1N1 = Fear Mongering at it's best.

Hey give the media a break, there aren't any missing hot white girls and the hurricane season was weak. They had to have something to scream about 24/7.

I'm more worried about the Martial Law about to be imposed by the Marxist Obama government. The shock troops will begin going door-to-door this upcoming weekend dressed as Harry Potter and the characters from Twilight. DON'T BE FOOLED, PEOPLE! THIS IS THE END OF AMERICA AS WE KNOW IT!

I may or may not have had swine flu a few months ago. It felt like the flu mixed with the worse hangover of all time. I was better in about 4-5 days.

Postal Penguin: Jeepman1974: H1N1 = Fear Mongering at it's best.

Hey give the media a break, there aren't any missing hot white girls and the hurricane season was weak. They had to have something to scream about 24/7.

Yea, it's either H1N1 or that god-damned 'balloon family'.

Postal Penguin: Jeepman1974: H1N1 = Fear Mongering at it's best.

Hey give the media a break, there aren't any missing hot white girls and the hurricane season was weak. They had to have something to scream about 24/7.

You'd think they'd be busy researching the cost of the Twelve Days of Christmas in a floundering economy.

indarwinsshadow: Thanks. It seems to be hitting the kids the hardest. A 13 year old hockey player in Toronto died over the weekend after a hockey tournament. Perhaps exposing his team and everyone else that attended the tournament. I feel for his parents, but also wonder what kind of virulent disease kills a normally healthy adolescent within 48hrs of contact.

sounds like a defective immune system.
should have ate more chicken and bacon!

I work for an agency that's running a statewide seasonal and H1N1 flu hotline. We tell people who has flu vaccines available and who is eligible to get them.

We've had people accusing us of withholding flu shots from them. People have biatched at us because we didn't have information on H1N1 clinics that hadn't even been formally announced yet. We've had people accusing us of sentencing them to death because they've got underlying health conditions and have to have the H1N1 vaccine or they'll die. We've even gotten threats of bodily harm for not directing people to H1N1 flu shot clinics even though such clinics don't exist.

Every day at work I'm reminded of my favorite quote from The Hunt for Red October: "This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it."

author1701:

Every day at work I'm reminded of my favorite quote from The Hunt for Red October: "This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it."

I have always been fond of "Give me one ping, Vasilly. One ping only"

I'm not afraid. The nice older gentleman who lives at the end of the block is setting up a candy screening van for all the children to go into one at a time. I guess he doesn't want to take the chance that his sweet rec room with all the latest Wii and Xbox games could be infected.

KingKauff: author1701:

Every day at work I'm reminded of my favorite quote from The Hunt for Red October: "This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it."

I have always been fond of "Give me one ping, Vasilly. One ping only"

I would like to have seen Montana.

author1701: We've had people accusing us of withholding flu shots from them. People have biatched at us because we didn't have information on H1N1 clinics that hadn't even been formally announced yet. We've had people accusing us of sentencing them to death because they've got underlying health conditions and have to have the H1N1 vaccine or they'll die. We've even gotten threats of bodily harm for not directing people to H1N1 flu shot clinics even though such clinics don't exist.

I had a patient WITH swine flu demanding that I give him the shot to get rid of it. I tried to explain to him that medics don't give immunization shots (we don't exactly carry that on board our trucks), and that it doesn't get RID of the flu, only prevents it.

"Well, if it prevents it, it will get rid of it quicker too! Give me the damn shot!"

He was your typical "Git-R-Done" redneck, so trying to explain germ theory, virus biology, and the process of vaccination seemed like a bit of a waste of time. I just dropped him off at the hospital and let them deal with it.

macadamnut: I would like to have seen Montana.

"I will live in Montana. And I will marry a round American woman and raise rabbits, and she will cook them for me. And I will have a pickup truck... maybe even a "recreational vehicle." And drive from state to state. Do they let you do that?"

"I suppose."

"No papers?"

"No papers, state to state."

"Well then, in winter I will live in... Arizona. Actually, I think I will need two wives."

"Oh, at least."

/quoting from memory, please be kind with mistakes

macadamnut: KingKauff: author1701:

Every day at work I'm reminded of my favorite quote from The Hunt for Red October: "This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it."

I have always been fond of "Give me one ping, Vasilly. One ping only"

I would like to have seen Montana.

Shadowknight: wademh: What's it like? sex that is.

With swine flu? Hot, achy and painful at times, sweaty, and awkward. So pretty much like usual.

I'm thinking of combining the two. Any farkettes with the flu want to take a final vacation with me?

I love how anti-bacterial hand wash is showing up everywhere. Does wonders for viruses.

author1701: I work for an agency that's running a statewide seasonal and H1N1 flu hotline. We tell people who has flu vaccines available and who is eligible to get them.

We've had people accusing us of withholding flu shots from them. People have biatched at us because we didn't have information on H1N1 clinics that hadn't even been formally announced yet. We've had people accusing us of sentencing them to death because they've got underlying health conditions and have to have the H1N1 vaccine or they'll die. We've even gotten threats of bodily harm for not directing people to H1N1 flu shot clinics even though such clinics don't exist.

Every day at work I'm reminded of my favorite quote from The Hunt for Red October: "This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it."

So, what you're saying is that the government fear-mongering is working?

dofus: I love how anti-bacterial hand wash is showing up everywhere. Does wonders for viruses.

Alcohol based hand sanitizers will kill most viruses too. Alcohol will kill most anything in high enough doses. It's either that, or use bleach.

Shadowknight: quoting from memory, please be kind with mistakes

Too many indefinite articles. Otherwise, well done.

Shadowknight,

There was way too much logic in that post. Are you sure you're in the right place?

There are some things in here that don't like getting shot at.
Particurally relevent.

scarmig:

So, what you're saying is that the government fear-mongering is working?

I think the government has been nothing BUT measured in response to this. The only moment of alarm was last week, when Obama declared the "National Emergency." And he only did that because the provision allowing for off-site emergency rooms required that terminology. He even said that while it's scary and is a problem, it isn't something that should send us into a panic.

It's the media that's been hyping up the PigPox to such levels that people are freaking out. You KNOW it's killing them to not be able to say such scary buzz phrases like "No known treatment," "anti-viral resistant," or "No Vaccine" like they have with every other non-epidemic epidemic that came out in the past. West Nile, SARS, Monkey-Pox, and the rest. H1N1 actually has the potential to be everything those non-threats were supposed to be, but we have a good head start on stopping it before it even gets close.

I just wish the media would stop freaking everyone out. At least two people per shift claim to have swine flu, when they don't even have a fever yet. But they are just SURE they have it, no doubt in their minds...

Shadowknight: author1701: We've had people accusing us of withholding flu shots from them. People have biatched at us because we didn't have information on H1N1 clinics that hadn't even been formally announced yet. We've had people accusing us of sentencing them to death because they've got underlying health conditions and have to have the H1N1 vaccine or they'll die. We've even gotten threats of bodily harm for not directing people to H1N1 flu shot clinics even though such clinics don't exist.

I had a patient WITH swine flu demanding that I give him the shot to get rid of it. I tried to explain to him that medics don't give immunization shots (we don't exactly carry that on board our trucks), and that it doesn't get RID of the flu, only prevents it.

"Well, if it prevents it, it will get rid of it quicker too! Give me the damn shot!"

He was your typical "Git-R-Done" redneck, so trying to explain germ theory, virus biology, and the process of vaccination seemed like a bit of a waste of time. I just dropped him off at the hospital and let them deal with it.

That's why you should just carry around syringes full of saline. Next dumbass who tells you that, give him a shot of saline and say "There you go. The flu will be gone within a week"

The proper term is "Bacon Lung," dammit!

There's no consensus among experts that ethyl alcohol hand sanitizers (like most over-the-counter products), in normal use, kill many viruses to any great degree. Industrial hand sanitizers that use different chemicals are often more effective.

However, common alcohol hand sanitizers dehydrate the skin and, to some extent, clean it, and generally make the hands less hospitable to viruses, reducing the concentration and reducing how long the viruses will remain viable.

Hand sanitizers are not as effective as washing your hands with soap and water. They work pretty well against bacteria. They're better than nothing against viruses. Handi-wipe-style moist towelettes are more effective against viruses, though, according to some studies, just because they do a much better job of cleaning your hands than sanitizer gels do.