Indoor malls and swine flu

[tamirra]

Is it best to keep out of indoor shopping malls as the risk is greater for catching swine flu, as my daughter wants to go to lakeside on Sunday and im a bit warey about putting us all at risk, including my 2 yr old granddaughter. Thank you

[DEN53]

I suppose its no different to going into big department stores tamirra - I think anywhere there are large crowds of people is always going to be a risk. I keep some of that germ prevention gel in my car and always use it when I get back in. I know thats not the same as breathing in germs, but it makes me feel better.

I live near Lakeside. Go to the M & S Outlet Store they have some great stuff in there.

[DSJ]

Even if you avoid closed shopping malls, you will still encounter large crowds in shops themselves. I don't think it's particularly wise to take such a young child shopping in the run-up to Christmas anyway. They get bored so quickly. That's just my opinion, of course.

[tamirra]

Not as foar as i know Zacsmaster but he wont come with us, so wether he feels something or not i dont know. M and S outlet Den will have a look at that while im there, if i go lol. Thanks

[DEN53]

Its not in the main shopping mall tamirra but if you make your way past the exit for Ikea and then past the next 2 exits on the left - its the one directly in front of you that has Dansk Furniture store starring straight back at you.
Also in the same area is Asda Home and T.K. Maxx, BurgerKing, and a cinema.

[lil123]

I caught it despite taking all precausions I could and it's not as bad as people make out just a nasty form of flu it seemed to me. The tamiflu does help but it takes longer to shift than normal flu.
I suppose if the person is iill already then it would be. I really wouldn't go overboard with trying not to catch it.

[tamirra]

Thanks Lil123, hope your feeling better, and Den i think i know where you are, i know where the Dansk shop is so will just look for that and i know im heading in the right direction. Thanks

[Mr Veritas]

The Governments own Chief Medical Officer stated at the start of the outbreak that:~
"To catch swine flu you have to be in prolonged contact with a person who is already infected".
Quite what he classes "prolonged contact" as I am not sure.
However,I think this excludes places like shopping centres,but includes the workplace and fellow pupi;s at school.

[gotchaeme]

swine flu is a made up pretense that the goverment was scared into by america it was made in a labratory to scare people into getting vacines so the big drug companys make more money , look at how the bbc are portraying sinwe flu and the magazines , some said they were building mass graves for people and that it was going to get worse in the winter and look, oh ! nothing ! its all lies to control the public dont bevlive the news or the newspapers its all lies , everyone should stop the media and get common sense and look at the facts for once and see that its lies and your beliving it , dont get the vaccine years down the line u will get cancers and disorders like in america when they gave out vaccines for flu years ago and everyone got things wrong with them and the vaccine killed more people then the flu did , look it up i aint lieing start to see what happened and whats happening again seriously and yes swine flu is real but its made not of natural causes and it doesnt even kill people so you know what go to lakeside and get it and maybe your immune system will get stronger stop being so *** clean , when i was little i was aloud to be dirty i never used those stupid antibcterial cream where u dont have tp use water we should all be getting stronger immune systems why u think everyone has allergys and asthma, so what u think oh yer ps the bbc is run by top people of america and thats why 7 july bombings in london happend beccause they were saying to the bbc this is what we can do if u keep reporting the truth and from then the bbc stop the truth and has to follow what they say because there in charge now so dont belive , also it leaked that the bbc reported the bopmbings before they actually happned , so yer look this stuff up !! tell me what you think

[Mustardmit]

"Swine flu" is yet another government generated fear hype, don't buy into it, your daughter will be fine.

[gotchaeme]

and another thing half the doctors and nurses in the uk refused to take the vaccine isnt that telling you something , you know why cos they know its dangerous and it hasnt been tested, so yer seriously its fake