Reactions to H1N1 - Page 4

timbot · 10-30-2009, 11:24 AM

Yeah, because I don't get too much major media news around here, it's hard to tell what is paranoia on the part of the general public and what is just my boss. I can understand it to a degree since it's a private academy and if people are gone/we have to shut down for awhile, we'll lose a bunch of money. So, good to be safe/paranoid in a way, what annoys me is that--with the possible exception of taking temps--none of it is really effective for stopping the flu.

LandMarkMoon · 10-30-2009, 12:24 PM

I would advise for people in your school to

STOP FUCKING PIGS.

occultculture · 10-30-2009, 1:38 PM

abbey · 10-30-2009, 3:50 PM

So, yesterday, I was coughing and having trouble breathing, but overall I felt pretty okay. My sister told me to go to the hospital because I had been in contact with someone who had been in contact with someone who had H1N1.

I went to the on-campus medical centre, but I didn't have an appointment. They gave me a list of walk-in clinics.

I went back to my dorm room to get some stuff, then walked the 15 minutes to a walk-in clinic. Waited in line for 20 minutes, only to find out my health card expired a month ago. (The kicker is that you can still use it for a month after it expires, and it had been a month and a day.) I could either pay $75 to be looked at, or get my health card renewed. No way was I going to pay. I'm a student. They told me where to go to get my card renewed, and that I needed some other ID.

I walked for 15 minutes back to my dorm to get ID. I walked for another 15 minutes to get to the health card centre. Waited there for 45 minutes. Was told that they had sent me a notice saying I needed to renew my card, but it had been sent back, voiding my coverage. The lady left me alone for 3 minutes while she went to check something while I silently freaked out. Luckily, it was their fault for not updating my address properly, so she was able to renew it anyways.

I walked 5 minutes to the clinic and waited for an hour to see a doctor, feeling worse and worse the whole time. He told me I don't have H1N1. Prescribed me some Tamiflu.

I walked 20 minutes back to my dorm, now feeling like complete shit after running around the city for 5 hours. Collapsed on my bed, called my mom. She insisted I come home.

I'm missing halloween weekend because of H1N1.

LandMarkMoon · 10-30-2009, 3:52 PM

Maybe you can go disguised as a person with H1N1. Would be amazingly cool and sexy.

nellibob · 10-30-2009, 4:22 PM

I've been mostly trying to ignore the whole swine flu thing, but I was reading earlier in New Scientist (cos I am that much of a geek) some stuff about it. For anyone who's interested, it's at http://www.newscientist.com/special/...nger-your-life I thought it was reasonably balanced anyway, unlike most media coverage which seems just to be aimed at making people panic. One thing I found particularly interesting tho is that it can and has killed fit and healthy teenagers and young adults, rather than affecting mostly the elderly like normal flu does.

Ikin · 10-30-2009, 7:49 PM

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Originally Posted by occultculture

It's not considered an epidemic because of the people it's killed, it's an epidemic because it's a new strain and it spreads much quicker than normal flu. Also, I'm pretty sure it can't be cured by Tamiflu.

Let's get over a common misconception: An epidemic refers to the geographic spread of a disease, not its deadliness.

RobannTheMan · 10-31-2009, 5:26 PM

Swine Flu FTW.

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B3n · 11-04-2009, 2:02 PM

I fucking hate the common overreaction about Swine Flu, much like all of you, I'm sure. I missed a week of school earlier this month, and when I went back, literally the first thing everyone asked was, "So was it Swine?" Jesus Christ, no I had the common flu.

Derelict · 11-04-2009, 2:32 PM

My great uncle Allen just died the other night of complications due to H1N1. He was in a high risk group, though, because of his emphysema. He was also pretty well into his 80s. It's still a shock.

CuntMuppet · 11-04-2009, 2:39 PM

Oh man, sorry to hear about that. A couple of my friends have had it but as (relatively) healthy teenagers it's not been a big deal. I've seen some more adverts lately stressing the issue, I guess because winter is just around the corner and flu season could get a whole lot worse for pensioners.

LandMarkMoon · 11-04-2009, 2:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Derelict

My great uncle Allen just died the other night of complications due to H1N1. He was in a high risk group, though, because of his emphysema. He was also pretty well into his 80s. It's still a shock.

Sorry to hear about that bro, my condolences.

I lost my Granddad to cancer that spread from his pancreas (caused by his diabetes) and it spread to his longs and gave him pneumonia.

It's shit.

chibot2000 · 11-04-2009, 2:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Jackoff Shitler

It spreads alot easier than common flu. Everytime it spreads there's an added chance it'll mutate to a deadly strain. If a preemptive strike is made, that risk is highly reduced.

Also the company that owned the vaccine rights is cashing in huge profits.

True to some extent, but no more than regular flu or the cold.
And besides, regular flu has a higher kill rate, its just that H1N1 is more catchy because we don't have as good defences, unless you had some crazy flu ages ago (I didn't pay attention because it was before I was born).
My school had two confirmed cases of swine flu and did the only sensible thing to do.... keep on as usual. And bear in mind this was when the media was practically screaming "THE END IS NIGH! SWINE FLU WILL KILL US ALL!!!"
But my friend has it now, its just like a bad cold / weak regular flu.
Damn him, he gets to miss college.

chibot2000 · 11-04-2009, 3:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Ikin

It's not considered an epidemic because of the people it's killed, it's an epidemic because it's a new strain and it spreads much quicker than normal flu. Also, I'm pretty sure it can't be cured by Tamiflu.

Let's get over a common misconception: An epidemic refers to the geographic spread of a disease, not its deadliness.

Also don't fly off the handle and rage at someone when you can't even read. It compares the number of deaths, which are considerably lower for swine flu, and then shows what they are considered "epidemic VS illness"
And due to the rapid increase of people confirmed to have swine flu it IS an epidemic, as well as a pandemic.
Pandemic is geographic spread of disease, epidemic explains that the virus spreads fast.

And only 0.39% of H1N1 tested were shown to be resistant to the effects of Oseltamivir (Tamiflu).

DOCTORED

LandMarkMoon · 11-04-2009, 3:14 PM

DOCTORED

Don't believe everything you read, 2/3 doctors I asked told me to forget the vaccine, and especially don't give it to your kids.

chibot2000 · 11-04-2009, 3:53 PM

Yeah, to be honest, if your not in a high risk group, who cares? The only reason anyone should get the vaccine if they have too much free time and money, your in high risk group, you actually like the high risk group people you come into contact with, or you can get it for free (like me, thank you NHS) although for the last one, they'll probably inject me with super AIDS or something :P [thats a joke people]

occultculture · 11-04-2009, 5:54 PM

The vaccine is a waste of time. All the hype is just the result of bitches freaking out. Shit happens all the time, like with e.Coli every couple months.

lafuriaroja · 11-04-2009, 6:17 PM

I was just force to take the swine flu vaccine. I'm glad it was free too otherwise I would have been like fuck it and taken my chances. Of course, like any other vaccine I'm gonna feel side effects similar to the disease itself, which begs me to wonder, " why the fuck am I getting this shit for?"

Ikin · 11-04-2009, 7:22 PM

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Originally Posted by chibot2000

Also don't fly off the handle and rage at someone when you can't even read. It compares the number of deaths, which are considerably lower for swine flu, and then shows what they are considered "epidemic VS illness"
And due to the rapid increase of people confirmed to have swine flu it IS an epidemic, as well as a pandemic.
Pandemic is geographic spread of disease, epidemic explains that the virus spreads fast.

And only 0.39% of H1N1 tested were shown to be resistant to the effects of Oseltamivir (Tamiflu).

DOCTORED

I was most certainly not flying off the handle.

I knew it was an epidemic. I was informing the person who posted the graph, who didn't seem to realize what a epidemic was. you basically just agreed with me.

Although I admit I wasn't entirely sure of the difference between an epidemic and a pandemic.

**Rob** · 11-04-2009, 7:26 PM

Had it last week, it was pretty rad. Felt like regular flu but didn't last as long.

Varsity · 11-05-2009, 12:59 AM

I got the regular flu and was much worse than guys I know who had H1N1. I mean vomiting, shaking, shitting my guts out and all that jazz. Not fun.

chibot2000 · 11-05-2009, 5:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Ikin

I was most certainly not flying off the handle.

I knew it was an epidemic. I was informing the person who posted the graph, who didn't seem to realize what a epidemic was. you basically just agreed with me.

Although I admit I wasn't entirely sure of the difference between an epidemic and a pandemic.

Yeah sorry, probably a miss understanding, you explained an epidemic correctly at first, then provided another example of why it was an epidemic, which actually showed it was a pandemic.
And in all honesty, you are correct to some extent in that it can't be CURED by tamiflu, it merely stops most of the viruses reproducing. Which is a treatment :)

Also I've been wondering why everyone keeps posting pictures of "swine flu"... but H1N1 is a virus, not bacteria. And all the pictures look like bacteria, or is that just me? :P

CC-Patrick · 11-05-2009, 6:29 PM

I'm sure I'm not going to get the flu because I usually wash my hands before eat.

Why doesn't everyone just wash their hands?There's the vaccine!

CurlyWolf · 11-05-2009, 7:23 PM

I got my H1N1 shot this morning.
It hurt like a bitch, but still.
I think Swine Flu is being blown way out of proportion. Yes I understand it's a new virus, it's dangerous, etc. but eventually it will pass.
...Eventually.

Savaril · 11-06-2009, 1:13 AM

Congratulations you think the same thing that everyone else in this thread does

Chocoholic · 11-06-2009, 2:07 AM

Did anyone else have a bunch of crazy people waiting in line forever for a shot? Here people started waiting in line at like 4 A.M. for it.

Varsity · 11-06-2009, 2:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Chocoholic

Did anyone else have a bunch of crazy people waiting in line forever for a shot? Here people started waiting in line at like 4 A.M. for it.

Why bother? It's had it's run in all the major Western countries (unless you are posting from Mexico) and shouldn't cause any major damage.

Chocoholic · 11-06-2009, 2:23 AM

We just got the shots here last week and the day they were available people were lining up for them at 4 A.M. There was still a huge line at 6 P.M. when the news was talking about it.

I could see why some people might want their children to get it or why older people might want it. But the majority were middle-aged adults.

Varsity · 11-06-2009, 2:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Chocoholic

We just got the shots here last week and the day they were available people were lining up for them at 4 A.M. There was still a huge line at 6 P.M. when the news was talking about it.

I could see why some people might want their children to get it or why older people might want it. But the majority were middle-aged adults.

It's all the paranoid people that are afraid to get a bit sick, in my opinion its better to have and boost your immune system than to take the cop out way

LandMarkMoon · 11-06-2009, 2:57 AM

I would rather get a flue and miss some school/goof off, than get a potentially life-threatening vaccine.

OogieBoogie · 11-06-2009, 8:25 AM

I had to get the vaccine cuz I'm in the high risk category. I seriously don't trust it and it made my arm hurt like a SOB for about a week. DON'T GET THE VACCINE

timbot · 11-06-2009, 8:50 AM

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Originally Posted by LandMarkMoon

I would rather get a flue and miss some school/goof off, than get a potentially life-threatening vaccine.

I'm definitely in the camp of people who won't be getting the vaccine and thinks this whole thing is blown out of proportion, but what makes the you call the vaccine potentially life-threatening?

Hypocrite · 11-06-2009, 9:39 AM

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Originally Posted by timbot

I'm definitely in the camp of people who won't be getting the vaccine and thinks this whole thing is blown out of proportion, but what makes the you call the vaccine potentially life-threatening?

I had to wait for the better part of an hour to get my hepatitis shot while people kept coming in after me for the free Swine Flu vaccine, and because they were already doing that one, I had to wait for everyone that came in after me. I was ready to kill someone. Therefore, the vaccine is life-threatening.

chibot2000 · 11-06-2009, 11:25 AM

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Originally Posted by LandMarkMoon

I would rather get a flue and miss some school/goof off, than get a potentially life-threatening vaccine.

How the fuck is the vaccine potentially life-threatening?!
Also the vaccine is pointless anyway, the current stage of H1N1 isn't life threatening unless your in high risk groups. The only way for it to suddenly become life threatening is if it has a mutational shift, in which case its more than likely the vaccine will have no effect on the essentially new virus.
Media = retards

Varsity · 11-08-2009, 3:12 AM

It can be life threatening because if your immune system is weak at the time, the wekened virus can take hold.

timbot · 11-08-2009, 3:58 AM

Which would be no more life-threatening than if you got actual swine flu at that time. So, the position that "I'd rather have the flu than get a vaccine" still makes no sense.

Varsity · 11-09-2009, 2:22 AM

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Originally Posted by timbot

Which would be no more life-threatening than if you got actual swine flu at that time. So, the position that "I'd rather have the flu than get a vaccine" still makes no sense.

Fair point

Ocellatus · 11-09-2009, 7:23 AM

She's an idiot and doesn't use logic. Case closed. I rest my case. Courtroom... adjourned.

Welsh_Chickky · 11-09-2009, 9:36 AM

The funniest thing about it for me was going to London for the day and seeing all the foreign students on trips there all wearing masks.
It is a nasty bug though, I honestly thought I was dying for the week that I suffered with it.

Arthenon · 11-09-2009, 2:19 PM

Someone in my section at work got it, they had to med evac him out of the area, though we weren't in a space that could have gotten him to a medical facility very easily. You get a couple of days of rest and he'll be fine.