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

586 replies

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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eastereggfeaster · 27/04/2009 16:17

If it all turns into an episode of Survivor can I bagseye that tall, dark handsome bloke please?

Ivykaty44 · 27/04/2009 16:18

So washing your hands and up your nose is the way to go - just like the news of the world stated back in 1918

Ivy goes off to wash her hands - not to sure about up my nose

Ivykaty44 · 27/04/2009 16:19

Hulababy - this has been going on since 18 March... and only made the news this week? humm what news was covered up then

FelineFine · 27/04/2009 16:21

Nope this will be it. The end of the World.

sarah293 · 27/04/2009 16:22

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Hulababy · 27/04/2009 16:22

No FF - can I go on holiday first please?

Hulababy · 27/04/2009 16:23

This isn;t the EU's way of getting us to start going on holiday in Europe again? I know travel there had dropped about because of the Euro. Bt hey - they don't have people dying from swine flu. Argh. I have two US holidays planned between now and August. I don;t want to read about EU people telling me I shouldn't go - I will remain head in sand!

FelineFine · 27/04/2009 16:36

It's fine, I am sure it's Winter time.

The World ending thing......

Enjoy your holidays!

MrsFlittersnoop · 27/04/2009 17:03

There can be no meaningful comparison with the 1918/1919 flu pandemic. Poor nutrition, poor hygiene and overcrowded insanitary living conditions were common in the aftermath of war. Many people who contracted flu died as a result of secondary infection, i.e. pneumonia, which is treatable with antibiotics nowadays. Pneumonia killed many many people in those days, even without flu epidemics. Average life expectancy was only 54.

expatinscotland · 27/04/2009 17:13

When I get to the point where I sign myself up for voluntary slavery by letting fear rob me of my freedom, then I hope I do pass on from this life to the next.

What a way to live, in constant terror of something that is inevitable for each and every one of that.

Sorry, but that will never make sense to me.

eastereggfeaster · 27/04/2009 17:28

Riven - you can take Beesley. I'm having Patterson whatshisname...

eastereggfeaster · 27/04/2009 17:32

In fact can I BE Julie Graham please? I thought her character was really cool.

flossiemay · 27/04/2009 17:32

I agree with expat. Besides, I've lost the SAS survival handbook that used to be my Dad's toilet reading and which would prepare me for the post-flu apocalyptic world, so I guess I'll just have to keep calm and carry on as usual. I do retain some things though: according to my Dad, if you pee into a sock full of soil potable water comes out the other side. I think you'd have to be really thirsty though.

flossiemay · 27/04/2009 17:33

patterson joseph. he's lovely. and brilliant as Johnson.

MrsGuyOfGisbourne · 27/04/2009 17:41

HAve not read the whole thread, but I think Sidge's husband summed it up

LynetteScavo · 27/04/2009 17:43

expat - you can stay calm - don't you live in a scarcely populated place? You are probably the least likely of us to catch pig flu, or what ever. I may dacide to come move to some remote part of the UK to try to avoid it.

A pandemic is comming whether we like it or not. Luckily it seems to have started on hte other side of the world. By the time it reaches me a vacination will have been developed. [confident emoticon]

expatinscotland · 27/04/2009 17:48

'expat - you can stay calm - don't you live in a scarcely populated place? You are probably the least likely of us to catch pig flu, or what ever. I may dacide to come move to some remote part of the UK to try to avoid it.'

Lynette, my grandmother lived in a rural village.

Spanish Flu still came to town.

DH works with the public, as does everyone here.

This isn't Amish town.

Honestly, people are acting like there's a massive outbreak of Ebola.

sarah293 · 27/04/2009 18:01

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expatinscotland · 27/04/2009 18:04

If I were running an Al-Queda cell, I'd deploy my operatives on our mission right about now, whilst everyone is worrying about this, to blow something up pretty big time.

This hasn't stopped Columbian drug lords from trafficking coke into Europe, when you see the supply of that dropping that's when it's time to panic .

Georgeous · 27/04/2009 18:05

expat, I couldn't agree with you more. I just wish more people were as sane as you, or at the very least, that the newspapers published opinions like yours........

expatinscotland · 27/04/2009 18:07

letsgocrazy!

LynetteScavo · 27/04/2009 18:35

LOL - I think I may become Amish to aviod the flu.

flossiemay · 27/04/2009 18:41

Perhaps we get so worried cos we've got soft in the West because we're so protected. My cousin lives in India and when bird flu was the next big pandemic and cases had been identified in his city (in birds) I asked if he was worried. He looked at me a bit oddly and said, 'Really, what with the cholera and the typhoid and the malaria and the chikungunya and the drug-resistant TB, bird flu is the least of our worries.'

StripeyKnickersSpottySocks · 27/04/2009 18:44

I see its reached Scotland.

StripeyKnickersSpottySocks · 27/04/2009 18:46

I think we should rebuild Hadrian's wall and seal it off.