SWINE FLU INFO

[rachaelsscraps]

Originally Posted by maryinaz

Exactly. The government needs to close the borders so the disease can be contained and treated.

You'd think they would! I don't see it happening, though!

They should close the borders and stop all airline travel to Mexico- period!

[AnnieBananie]

Obama said something like it's like closing the barn doors after the horses are already out... because we have cases here already. I'll find the article with the exact quote.

Apparently he kept Bush's speech writer lol

[rachaelsscraps]

Originally Posted by AnnieBananie

Obama said something like it's like closing the barn doors after the horses are already out... because we have cases here already. I'll find the article with the exact quote.

Apparently he kept Bush's speech writer lol

LOL!

[Angela Spangler]

They've just announced a "probable" case here in San Antonio...

[Stacey42]

I think not closing the border is like watching your sink overflow onto your floor and saying "Well no point in turning the water off, the floor is already wet."

[kscwgirl]

My dad just sent this to me, and well... I thought it was funny. LOL

Dept of Health Swine Flu update - please avoid the following activity...

[ColleenSwerb]

Originally Posted by Stacey42

I think not closing the border is like watching your sink overflow onto your floor and saying "Well no point in turning the water off, the floor is already wet."

LOL! So true Stacey, so true.

[AnnieBananie]

Originally Posted by Stacey42

I think not closing the border is like watching your sink overflow onto your floor and saying "Well no point in turning the water off, the floor is already wet."

LOL

And Sara... that's freaking adorable.

[nikkiARNGwife]

Here's the thing...do they track the regular "seasonal flu" like they have been tracking this one? I mean..isn't it just as contagious and surely if it were tracked like this one and splattered all over the news it would show that it spreads just as quickly right? I mean I have no facts to back that up but all flus are contagious..right? I know when I was teaching EVERY year we would have a period of a few weeks where TONS of students would get sick with the flu and it would go through the entire school until it finally moved on. I can remember one day where out of a class of 29 students I had like 15 absent with the flu and about 10 more went home that day with it. (Including ME lol)

And so far, other than the poor little Mexican boy, the cases here have been mild to moderate...they just stated on the news that most cases have been mild and many recover without even having to visit their doctor. I haven't heard any reports but how many of these US and other international cases have had to be hospitilized? kwim? That's the stuff I want to know...yes it's spreading, but how bad is it really..the actual symptoms?? I know I know..it could mutate blah blah blah..but isn't that true of ANY flu??

It's serious..but sometimes these day I feel like we're TOO informed a lot of the time kwim?

[MelissaL88]

LOL@Sara!

I've had two people send that photo to me today (because I'm coming down with bronchitis). I was at the doctor this morning and the nurse asked me if I had been in contact with swine. I'm sorry...it was all I could do to not burst out laughing! The first thing that popped into my head was not the flu but some flippant comment about men.

I will say that I am being more diligent about hand-washing than I have been in the past. I'm also carrying around a little bottle of hand santizer. I think it makes my co-workers feel better, which isn't a bad thing.

[MelissaL88]

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It's serious..but sometimes these day I feel like we're TOO informed a lot of the time kwim?[/QUOTE]


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[pbumbaca]

So it's school vacation in NH this week and my son knows of one girl he sits right behind that is in Mexico right now. I have no idea how many others may be there. My thoughts are that anyone who comes home from Mexico should stay home from school until the incubation period is over and they have shown no symptoms of the flu. I realize that we have better medical care than they do in Mexico and that is why there are so many deaths there but I still don't want my kids to get sick if it can be prevented. The govenment has decided that instead those kids can go to school but have to check in with the nurse frequently. I am not panicked but yes I am concerned.

[SeattleSheri]

There are 13 probable cases in WA, with the majority of them right here in Seattle. Three schools have been closed. One of the infected is a pediatrician. Thus far, only one was confirmed to have a tie to Mexico (a recent traveler there). Conclusive results on the tests have not been confirmed. My husband is a school teacher, so this definitely concern me.