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What happened to swine flu?
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It was a great skive as well because an employer couldn't question you if you said you had swine flu, anyone could convince the helpline that they had it so up the numbers went. I have had flu twice in my life and it knocked the hell out of me, nothing like most people who claimed to have it but really had a bit of a cold!
My eldest was diagnosed with swibne flu just over 2 weeks ago and given tamiflu. he's never felt to bad he said, it kept him off work for nearly 2 weeks and has left him with a bad chest which the doctor has finally given him anti-biotics for yesterday. The tamiflu he says made him worse, but it's hard to say if he wasn't just going through the course of the flu. Several people he knows have had the same illness and all were given tamiflu. One of his mates stopped breathing in the night, only for a short while as he lived to tell the tale, but his partner thought he had died.
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It is good to have a laugh and read some of the hysterical AB postings from the summer. Some of my favourites includes...
// We did have time to take action AOG but we blew it. Now we are looking at 60,000 deaths. //
// ...if that honeymoon couple and subsequently all others returning from Mexico had been quarantined when they arrived back to Britain, who knows? //
// I think a World Wide pandemic is a pretty good reason. (to quarantine returning hoildaymakers) //
//Professor Anderson, who was involved in the Foot and Mouth outbreak in 2001, thinks there will be a major pandemic in the UK spreading nationwide. Maybe we ignore his prediction this time at our peril? //
// Personally the only way that swine flu should be tackled, if not too late, is to quarantine any arrival from Mexico. This only needs a few days to clear them.
We do quarantine animals arriving here so that any virus contacted abroad is not brought here. Its the least we can do for our own population?//
// We did have time to take action AOG but we blew it. Now we are looking at 60,000 deaths. //
// ...if that honeymoon couple and subsequently all others returning from Mexico had been quarantined when they arrived back to Britain, who knows? //
// I think a World Wide pandemic is a pretty good reason. (to quarantine returning hoildaymakers) //
//Professor Anderson, who was involved in the Foot and Mouth outbreak in 2001, thinks there will be a major pandemic in the UK spreading nationwide. Maybe we ignore his prediction this time at our peril? //
// Personally the only way that swine flu should be tackled, if not too late, is to quarantine any arrival from Mexico. This only needs a few days to clear them.
We do quarantine animals arriving here so that any virus contacted abroad is not brought here. Its the least we can do for our own population?//
// A third of the population is likely to be eventally affected and because of its nature the virus is likely to mutate to something more serious making the vaccine unworkable. //
// but the scientists think its only a matter of time before it mutates to a more deadly strain. It may be too late now but someone from the Health Dept thinks that dishing out Tamiflu will cure the problem, it won't. //
// The government are in a complete shambles about this. They did not enough precautions at the beginning and now we are the 3rd worst country in the world for infection. Our government couldn't run a whelk stall. //
// How did China with a population of 1.5 billion succed where we have failed? //
// We decided to treat it as a minor illness and did not pull our fingers out. //
// Now that the majority of people are likely to get swine flu should we do something to protect our pigs?//
And my particular favourite...
// If the vaccine won't be readily available to the general public until Dec 09 will it still be necessary by then? The number of people catching the disease is doubling every week according to the press.
Now: 100,000
1 weeks time: 200,000
2 weeks: 400,000
3 weeks: 800,000
4 weeks 1,600,000
5 weeks 3,200,000
6 weeks 6,400,000
7 weeks 12,800,000
8 weeks 25,600,000
9 weeks 52,000,000
What and the vaccine still not available? //
// but the scientists think its only a matter of time before it mutates to a more deadly strain. It may be too late now but someone from the Health Dept thinks that dishing out Tamiflu will cure the problem, it won't. //
// The government are in a complete shambles about this. They did not enough precautions at the beginning and now we are the 3rd worst country in the world for infection. Our government couldn't run a whelk stall. //
// How did China with a population of 1.5 billion succed where we have failed? //
// We decided to treat it as a minor illness and did not pull our fingers out. //
// Now that the majority of people are likely to get swine flu should we do something to protect our pigs?//
And my particular favourite...
// If the vaccine won't be readily available to the general public until Dec 09 will it still be necessary by then? The number of people catching the disease is doubling every week according to the press.
Now: 100,000
1 weeks time: 200,000
2 weeks: 400,000
3 weeks: 800,000
4 weeks 1,600,000
5 weeks 3,200,000
6 weeks 6,400,000
7 weeks 12,800,000
8 weeks 25,600,000
9 weeks 52,000,000
What and the vaccine still not available? //
There are 2 important things about a pandemic like swine flu
How infectious it is and how dangerous it is.
In the summer it was known to be very infectious but how likely it was to kill someone was unclear.
I remember making this very point at the time.
That being the case the sensible thing was to plan for the worst - which is what happened.
Some people over-reacted in the way Grommit pointed out
Others under-reacted by saying it'll all be a storm in a teacup when they had no way of knowing that.
That's OK as a private individual but if a Government did that on the basis of the knowledge at the time it would have been criminal.
Some are going around now saying "I told you so"
That's a bit like flipping a coin and saying "I told you it would be heads"
Pandemics will always be with us - we might not have a dangerous one for 100 years but bird flu might mutate and transmit human-human next year.
If it does come sooner rather than later we might come to see swine flu as a good dry run
How infectious it is and how dangerous it is.
In the summer it was known to be very infectious but how likely it was to kill someone was unclear.
I remember making this very point at the time.
That being the case the sensible thing was to plan for the worst - which is what happened.
Some people over-reacted in the way Grommit pointed out
Others under-reacted by saying it'll all be a storm in a teacup when they had no way of knowing that.
That's OK as a private individual but if a Government did that on the basis of the knowledge at the time it would have been criminal.
Some are going around now saying "I told you so"
That's a bit like flipping a coin and saying "I told you it would be heads"
Pandemics will always be with us - we might not have a dangerous one for 100 years but bird flu might mutate and transmit human-human next year.
If it does come sooner rather than later we might come to see swine flu as a good dry run
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