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

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Meglet · 25/04/2009 21:20

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 .

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MrsFreud · 30/04/2009 19:47

imnotscared, you spent £450 preparing for a flu that is as mild as any other ...why?

if you read any professional literature on this, there is agreement this is a mild flu that is highly infectious.

It may or may not turn into something else. Why don't you wait and find out...you'll still have time to buy out costco, no flu kills a population of 60 million overnight!!!!

MrsFreud · 30/04/2009 19:48

and there are people out there who bought tamiflu when there was the avian flu scare...and now they look at it again it is out of date!!

frasersmummy · 30/04/2009 19:50

I'm not scared..

£450 .. what exactly do you think is going to happen????

Are all the shop staff going into quarantine and no-one has told me?????????

wishingchair · 30/04/2009 20:42

Surely if imnotscared wants to spend £450 on emergency supplies so that she feels prepared, that's up to her!

It doesn't take much to disrupt the distribution of goods to the supermarkets which hold only limited stock. Or if you did happen to get flu (mild or otherwise) and were therefore housebound because of quarantine rules, surely having a few supplies in would be prudent?

tatt · 01/05/2009 06:58

Adding a couple of extra cans to your store cupboard might possibly be prudent if you don't normally have any stocks of food, spending 450 pounds on things that you don't really need and won't help anyway isn't. However spend away, it will help us escape the recession.

sarah293 · 01/05/2009 07:15

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ImNotScared · 01/05/2009 08:17

with the exception of vitamins, there was nothing bought that wouldn't normally be bought.

If any of you ever shop in Costco, you'll know that you never leave that place without spending at least £100 - £200 any way.

I just bought more of everything than i would normally because if people do start getting really ill, I'd rather not have to expose myself or my family to supermarkets if I don't have to

It makes me feel a bit happier and I'll just keep rotating the food until all of the "scary" flu bugsaren't such an imminent threat.

coochicoo · 01/05/2009 08:20

Ooh tatt, dpo you think that's the idea??Worldwide recession, no one spending, shortly followed by 'deadly' flu pandemic...suddenly everyone's spending?!

sarah293 · 01/05/2009 08:47

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RubyrubyrubyRodent · 01/05/2009 08:48

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mosschops30 · 01/05/2009 09:44

well i finished my stocking up last night. And like a lot of us, I havent bought anything I wont use, mainly tins, water, OJ, disinfectant, rice and pasta and more tins

RubyrubyrubyRodent · 01/05/2009 09:54

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flymetothemoon · 01/05/2009 10:03

Maybe Imnotscared's Costco has champagne and caviar - can't imagine how you'd get £450 of food in the car even.

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BannedInternationalFlight · 01/05/2009 10:46

Imnotscared I admire your equanimity

I want a costco, we haven't got one

itwasntme · 01/05/2009 10:57

My God, a little perspective, ladies. This is not armageddon.

This article pretty much sums up how I feel about all this.

www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/apr/30/swine-flu-media

Lukilu · 01/05/2009 10:58

Riven, very best wishes for your dd. Re: Swine flu - summer is coming and flu viruses are less able to survive/spread. I don't think it's quite come to locking ourselves in the cellar just yet! Considering they have raised the level to phase 5 - pandemic imminent - it doesn't actually seem to be spreading that rapidly outside of Mexico. The media just love to scare everybody.

Lukilu · 01/05/2009 11:05

Classic itwasntme! MJD - Mad Journalism Disease - exacty!!!

Lukilu · 01/05/2009 11:30

Whoops 'exactly' I meant to say

lal123 · 01/05/2009 11:31

I know that this COULD get bad, I know that thousands COULD die, I know that we COULD all be doomed. But lets face it - in the month ish that its been around only a handful of people have died (even at the higher estimates at a population level the death rate has been tiny) Only about 8 people in the whole of the UK have swine flu - all of those mild cases. I am not about to go out and stock up on bottled water because 8 folk have a mild flu.....

If things start to get worse then I might reconsider

lal123 · 01/05/2009 11:36

if it starts to get like this I'll get worried. But we are much better prepared

Lukilu · 01/05/2009 11:59

We are much better prepared - but the idea is not to panic and use up all the stocks of medicine in case there is something worse around the corner. They are expecting something massive but it may not be this time.

BannedInternationalFlight · 01/05/2009 12:02

I'm wondering if it may even be better to have this one, iyswim - in other words if there's a chance it might mutate into something well dodgy later on, we might be rpotected a little by having had a dose of the rubbish version.

Or is that bollox?

Lukilu · 01/05/2009 14:05

Don't know really. They seem to think the Avian flu is far more risky than this one and I don't think having swine flu would reduce the chances of getting that.

Tinker · 01/05/2009 14:08

I was wondering that Banned. Aren't "they" worried about a swine and avian combination mutation thing so exposure to this might help