Swine Flu. Are we in big trouble with this then?

[Meglet]

This sounds worse than the bird flu that thankfully never really happened.

news.bbc.co.uk/mobile/bbc_news/top_stories/801/80183/story8018356.shtml?

Sky news have a press conference on now about possible cases in new york. When do we start panic buying .

Exactly, Upwind. My grandmother, her first husband and two-year-old daughter all contracted Spanish Flu in their remote village in Mexico in early 1920.

Food was never in grand supply there, nor was clean water.

Her husband died first, age 21, from what sounds like pneumonia from what she told us.

Then her daughter went.

She got it, too, but survived.

I got an Asian flu that had pandemic in 1968. But I got it in 1976 in Singapore.

'Why is there so little information about the Mexican fatalities? Even the experts interviewed in the media do not seem privy to much info about them. '

It's Mexico. It could be any number of reasons why there's not much info about the ones who died.

BBC managed to track down some men burying a woman who'd died of it, and they didn't seem in the mood to give much away.

No telling why.

Most of the bird flu deaths involved people living with livestock.

Well I'm not to worried yet but I do have a zombie plan for all types of disaster scenarios and I always have a stock pile of canned food and water in the house.
For a Pandemic I have a two stage plan, stage one is already under way. Safe haven is ready. Family members prepared.
I'm quite pissed at myself for not buying tamiflu tablets a few years ago when I had the chance.

I'm sure we are all worried about nothing, but I like to be ready just incase it makes me feel so much calmer.

WHO are having an emergency scientific meeting 5pm Geneva.

I have a cousin who works in border control based out of McAllen, TX. Another who is an officer in the Coast Guard and currently patrols in the Gulf of Mexico.

They both said the same thing: when and if it starts interfering in the drug trade, that's when you need to worry!

So far, it's business as usual.

'I'm quite pissed at myself for not buying tamiflu tablets a few years ago when I had the chance.'

But they probably would have been expired by now, no?

my daughter has just started snorting. should i worry?

apparently you can buy them in Harley St at £50 a throw.

'my daughter has just started snorting. should i worry?'

You might want to start stockpiling coke, womble, in case Columbian druglords are felled by swine flu and can't traffic.

Besides, you can always use it as currency when all hell breaks loose, or snort it as the sky falls down.

expat

Expat Possibly, it was about 2 years ago.
Donnie REALLY!? When we were looking at it we were looking at it they were over a hundred pounds.

LOL expat!

Prepared - what's in stage one of your plan then?

well I saw a report on the news yesterday mrprepared - it was London tonight I think, and a Harley Street Doc was rabbiting on about how loads of people are making appts just to get a tamiflu prescription and not beacuse they are actually ill - and they are paying £50. I was wondering if I should do the same!

fly, forgive me for I cannot tell all of it cus it's top secret.

Part 1: Check the stockpile of food (dried and tinned) water, blankets, camping gas stove thingy, matches, anti bac wipes, spray and gel, medication, and books and board games.
Watch media, how many deaths? is it rising? the spread rate, how close are we to Government calling state of emergency.
THAT is very important if stage 2 is not underway by then then all will fail.
Avoid physical contact I.e Use cards instead of money in shops. Avoid crowded places, no public transport.
Car has a full tank.

This is were we are now. Next stage most likely in the next few days.

Part 1 part 2: Supplies secretly moved into car, safe haven on read alert.

ment RED aleart not read.

expat

I'm seriously considering building a "sky falling in" stockpile of tinned foods etc. What if shops have to close ... we'd last about a week at present. I'm normally calm and rational (only a teensy bit neurotic) but also like to be prepared. Wonder if I wandered down to supermarket now, there'd be other equally neurotic calm women stockpiling spam?

Donnie thanks for that I have friends in London going to try and arrange a pick up for them.
If you can afford it then what's the harm is my view.

so where's the safe haven? Do you move in with mum?

Gosh you are very....prepared....were you a girl scout?

No worse PIL!

Dammit, why don't I have a safe haven? Am obviously not as prepared as I need to be.

Do PIL live on remote island away from humans and swine?

wishing: Be careful not to worry others and start panic buying, if you need to stockpile then spread it out over different supermarkets.
Fly no but I was a brownie!

Is your house not a safe haven? providing you let noone else in? My DH is in the military, so I have told him to keep his ears open- surely they would be alerted earlier than others?? If the military start to take precautions then so will I!