What happened to the obvious tag?

Some doctors say that they can cure cancer with a tonic. I have swine flu. It's a biatch.

Sure, that's why I know at least 20 people who have/had it.

Some doctors say - get this - if it hurts when I do this, I should stop doing it. Who knew?

The hell you say!

4 out 0f 5 doctors recommend vaccine.

Ignore them, subby.

FireBreathingLiberal: 4 out 0f 5 doctors recommend vaccine.

Ignore them, subby.

Please do. All this medicine is really putting the shiats on natural selection. People like Submitter would have died of stupiditis, hopefully before reproducing, in bygone days.

Yeah, because one retired medical official from some little district in Ontario knows what's going on sooo much better than the Freakin Center For Disease Control

Alacritous: Yeah, because one retired medical official from some little district in Ontario knows what's going on sooo much better than the Freakin Center For Disease Control

Like some little city in Louisiana knows what's going on sooo much better than the Freakin Federal Emergency Management Agency

My doctor told me this yesterday. Then he said I need to watch out for the superflu going around because it's worse and not publicized.

/can possibly turn your organs into liquid shiat?

rjShadow: My doctor told me this yesterday. Then he said I need to watch out for the superflu going around because it's worse and not publicized.

/can possibly turn your organs into liquid shiat?

If only we'd all swam in raw sewage as children like GC did.

So what should I do? Go stand in line with hundred of other potential flu victims to wait for a vaccine that may not work and is most definitely hard to come by? The last update for my 'risk group' said that I should expect my dose by mid December. And, one of my coworkers had to take little trip in an ambulance to the clinic after 'coming down with severe flu like symptoms'.

At this rate I should just go lick his keyboard and get my dose... unless I've already got it.

Oh well. As it stands, I have no option other than to go about my daily life and avoid getting stressed out about it.

I'll let the kids and old timers vaccinate and I'll just wash my hands like I've got ADD and try not to touch my face.

I do that every year with regular flu, and I haven't had it for 10+ years (knock wood...).

Just like SARS was going to kill us all, or any number of other fake "epidemic" flu scares we've all listened to over the last 30 years...

LordZorch: Just like SARS was going to kill us all, or any number of other fake "epidemic" flu scares we've all listened to over the last 30 years...

*eye-roll*

So, if health authorities are proactive and handle a situation before it goes out of control then you say they overreacted. If they let something go out of control will you be the first to say that they dropped the ball?

What's all the fuss about? In 1993, the flu was so devastating (new window) (predominantly among the elderly) that it lowered American's average life expectancy (new window), yet there was no fear-mongering and there's almost no mention of it in medical history. It was a non-event. Oh, wait... that's the year that Medicare started paying (new window) for vaccinations for old people.

FireBreathingLiberal: 4 out 0f 5 doctors recommend vaccine.

Ignore them, subby.

Yes. And when I went to get a vaccine so that I wouldn't miss work, I was told that I wasn't allowed to have one because I wasn't old.

GreenAdder: Yes. And when I went to get a vaccine so that I wouldn't miss work, I was told that I wasn't allowed to have one because I wasn't old.

The H1N1 vaccine age group priorities are different from the normal seasonal flu age group priorities.

Old people take priority for normal seasonal flu vaccines.

Younger people take priority for H1N1.

From the CDC's website:

"Initial Target Groups Are:
When vaccine is first available, ACIP recommends that programs and providers administer vaccine to people in the following five target groups (order of target groups does not indicate priority):

* pregnant women,
* people who live with or provide care for infants younger than 6 months (e.g., parents, siblings, and day care providers),
* health care and emergency medical services personnel,
* people 6 months through 24 years of age (especially those with higher risk for influenza-related complications like children younger than 5 years and those who have high risk medical conditions), and,
* people 25 years through 64 years of age who have certain medical conditions that put them at higher risk for influenza-related complications."

SchlingFocker: GreenAdder: Yes. And when I went to get a vaccine so that I wouldn't miss work, I was told that I wasn't allowed to have one because I wasn't old.

The H1N1 vaccine age group priorities are different from the normal seasonal flu age group priorities.

Old people take priority for normal seasonal flu vaccines.

Younger people take priority for H1N1.

From the CDC's website:

"Initial Target Groups Are:
When vaccine is first available, ACIP recommends that programs and providers administer vaccine to people in the following five target groups (order of target groups does not indicate priority):

* pregnant women,
* people who live with or provide care for infants younger than 6 months (e.g., parents, siblings, and day care providers),
* health care and emergency medical services personnel,
* people 6 months through 24 years of age (especially those with higher risk for influenza-related complications like children younger than 5 years and those who have high risk medical conditions), and,
* people 25 years through 64 years of age who have certain medical conditions that put them at higher risk for influenza-related complications."
* CEOs and other people who make political contributions.


FTFY.

Lundah: Sure, that's why I know at least 20 people who have/had it.

So what if everyone on the farking earth gets it. It's about the severity of the damned thing not how wide spread it is. Most people who get it try to make it sound worse but it has still been nothing more than the farking flu. The same damned symptoms they get every damned year, except now they get to sensationalize it. The people who are suffering the worst from H1N1 are the same people who would suffer from any sickness because they have weakened or even broken immune systems. So yes, 20 of your friends got it. Be sure to count how many get the regular damn flu next year and see how impressive that number is then.

Sure, maybe in Canada, but here in America we have a rational, logical, low-key media.

O RLY?

Is the hype too much? Yes, the virus is still treatable and preventable at this rate.

Should there be a concern for it? Yes. It is a new strain, one that has to be monitored, but not exaggerated.

Should you take the vaccine? If you want, but I personally will take it after the epidemiologists understand better how it ticks.

BU BU BU BUT the swine flu not only kills its victims it also repeatedly rapes them first.

Fear mongering to win Obamacare support.

/changey

Regardless of whether or not the hype is warranted, sounds hellish to go through. My colleague's fever peaked at 41.5C (106.7F)...not something I want to go through, thanks.

I remember delivering a bag of weed to my afflicted cousin when the swine flu shiat barely started, expecting him to look near terminal with this newfangled super flu, and he was drinking beer and playing Xbox like always in no apparent discomfort. Sensationalist stuff by the media.

/THE SWINE FLU DEATH TOLL HAS BEEN RAISED TO 112, WATCH YOUR ASS*!!
//*Elderly and infirm people

SchlingFocker: GreenAdder: Yes. And when I went to get a vaccine so that I wouldn't miss work, I was told that I wasn't allowed to have one because I wasn't old.

The H1N1 vaccine age group priorities are different from the normal seasonal flu age group priorities.

Old people take priority for normal seasonal flu vaccines.

Younger people take priority for H1N1.

From the CDC's website:

"Initial Target Groups Are:
When vaccine is first available, ACIP recommends that programs and providers administer vaccine to people in the following five target groups (order of target groups does not indicate priority):

* pregnant women,
* people who live with or provide care for infants younger than 6 months (e.g., parents, siblings, and day care providers),
* health care and emergency medical services personnel,
* people 6 months through 24 years of age (especially those with higher risk for influenza-related complications like children younger than 5 years and those who have high risk medical conditions), and,
* people 25 years through 64 years of age who have certain medical conditions that put them at higher risk for influenza-related complications."

^THIS^

/Falls into the last category
//Got my baconlung vaccination Tuesday

Maybe these virus' are natures way of thinning the herd. If we let them take the logical course, future generations will be stronger for it. Then with a little genetic engineering we can breed the first batch of iron snowflakes.

my daughter had it- she's 11- it was the most mild flu I've ever seen. She had a nasty headache and a fever. It was over in 2 days.

Oldiron_79: BU BU BU BUT the swine flu not only kills its victims it also repeatedly rapes them first.

You seem to be confusing the H1N1 virus with Glenn Beck.

Actually quite a few of those white lab coat wearing fellows are saying things along those lines.

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/11/03/What-We-Have-Lear n ed-About-the-Great-Swine-Flu-Pandemic.aspx

Just one teaspoon of super-AIDS in your butt and you're dead in three years.

deadapostle: I have swine flu. It's a biatch.

Thanks a lot, asshole. Now we're going to have to quarantine this thread.

D_Evans45: I remember delivering a bag of weed to my afflicted cousin when the swine flu shiat barely started, expecting him to look near terminal with this newfangled super flu, and he was drinking beer and playing Xbox like always in no apparent discomfort. Sensationalist stuff by the media.

/THE SWINE FLU DEATH TOLL HAS BEEN RAISED TO 112, WATCH YOUR ASS*!!
//*Elderly and infirm people

I'm sick. Get over here. STAT!

I for one am outraged that people would make light of the Swine Flu.

18DeadMonkeys Radio: D_Evans45: I remember delivering a bag of weed to my afflicted cousin when the swine flu shiat barely started, expecting him to look near terminal with this newfangled super flu, and he was drinking beer and playing Xbox like always in no apparent discomfort. Sensationalist stuff by the media.

/THE SWINE FLU DEATH TOLL HAS BEEN RAISED TO 112, WATCH YOUR ASS*!!
//*Elderly and infirm people

I'm sick. Get over here. STAT!


Alabama is a hell of a drive from California, but if you were local I think you'd be cured pretty quick ;)

bonnieboodickie: my daughter had it- she's 11- it was the most mild flu I've ever seen. She had a nasty headache and a fever. It was over in 2 days.

Seriously? Everyone I know who has had it (9 people so far) was down for more than a week (even with tamiflu) and had crazy high fevers, horrible coughs (a couple of them developed pneumonia) and runs "like I'd never believe." Are there different strains going around or something?

Alacritous: Yeah, because one retired medical official from some little district in Ontario knows what's going on sooo much better than the Freakin Center For Disease Control

Oh, you mean the same "freakin Center for Disease Control" that quit testing and tracking individual cases in July, defending the position by saying "Why waste resources testing for H1N1 flu when the government has already confirmed there's an epidemic?"

That freakin Center for Disease control?

Link

43 years old. Never had a flu shot. Haven't had the flu (regular or any other version) for the last 30 years.

Per my last physical in March: 5' 11" tall. 256 lbs (yes, morbidly obese) BP-112/68 Blood Sugar: 101 Total Cholesterol: 114

On ZERO medications... which p*sses my doctor off.

You're either blessed with strong natural defenses or not.

Something suggesting the Obama is a big blowhard for declaring yet another "federal emergency" gets a greenlight on Fark?

The end must be near......

A coworker across from me when home sick with H1N1. I was thinking about licking her keyboard until the supervisor came over and dissenfected everything with alcohol swabs.

Guess I'll have to get it the old fashioned way: stop washing my hands and putting my hands in my mouth.

a healthy thirteen year old boy died of it near to me
recently

so i think anybody who can get vaccinated against it should
just like they should any other vaccine

on the other hand
he should have had the vaccine a month earlier
like we all should have

MENSTRUATION: bonnieboodickie: my daughter had it- she's 11- it was the most mild flu I've ever seen. She had a nasty headache and a fever. It was over in 2 days.

Seriously? Everyone I know who has had it (9 people so far) was down for more than a week (even with tamiflu) and had crazy high fevers, horrible coughs (a couple of them developed pneumonia) and runs "like I'd never believe." Are there different strains going around or something?

I have no idea. But it almost shut her school down. Out of 500 kids, 189 at its worst were absent. I heard there were kids that were out at least a week, but the average seemed to be around 3 days. Maybe it just impacts people differently. There were kids her age that died so that's a pretty drastic difference.

MENSTRUATION: bonnieboodickie: my daughter had it- she's 11- it was the most mild flu I've ever seen. She had a nasty headache and a fever. It was over in 2 days.

Seriously? Everyone I know who has had it (9 people so far) was down for more than a week (even with tamiflu) and had crazy high fevers, horrible coughs (a couple of them developed pneumonia) and runs "like I'd never believe." Are there different strains going around or something?

No, there are not different strains. While people react differently to it, many people who get sick for a few days catch a different type of virus and have an ILI (influenza like illness). Unless his daughter was tested there is no way to confirm it was H1N1

zahal: MENSTRUATION: bonnieboodickie: my daughter had it- she's 11- it was the most mild flu I've ever seen. She had a nasty headache and a fever. It was over in 2 days.

Seriously? Everyone I know who has had it (9 people so far) was down for more than a week (even with tamiflu) and had crazy high fevers, horrible coughs (a couple of them developed pneumonia) and runs "like I'd never believe." Are there different strains going around or something?

No, there are not different strains. While people react differently to it, many people who get sick for a few days catch a different type of virus and have an ILI (influenza like illness). Unless his daughter was tested there is no way to confirm it was H1N1

ooooorrrr everyone else at the school got it. 5 of my classmates have had it and have been floored for a week.