[northstar22]

This is getting scary - really close to home for me.

How are you preparing for this flu?

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[MICoastieMom]

Well, you know, I was reading about the symptoms of the swine flu and was surprised to find they are exactly what my husband and son experienced earlier this year. In fact, we made two trips to the doctor and two trips to the hospital with my son- he was sick for over a week. The wierd thing is we have not traveled outside the state, much less the country, and none of their firends or colleagues had it, to the best of our knowledge, so don't know where they would have picked it up.

[alliteration]

I'm not worried at all, this is just another manufactured media/government scare. What a joke.

[northstar22]

Originally Posted by alliteration

I'm not worried at all, this is just another manufactured media/government scare. What a joke.

Are you serious? Hundreds have died from this! This is a real threat, and if nothing else, it will seriously damage our economy.

[Cliffie]

The swine flu comes through every few years and it hasn't hurt the economy yet, to my knowledge. Now, an international scare about it, THAT stands to hurt the economy.

[unclejake21]

Originally Posted by kazoopilot

Are you serious? Hundreds have died from this! This is a real threat, and if nothing else, it will seriously damage our economy.

True... but all of these have been in Mexico where it all began and they don't have as good as health care as the United States does.

[magellan]

Originally Posted by kazoopilot

Are you serious? Hundreds have died from this! This is a real threat, and if nothing else, it will seriously damage our economy.

Huh? Damage our economy? I agree with others that this is way overblown. Remember the Bird Flu? SARS? West Nile Virus? The carnage was so massive, they're still cleaning up bodies in our area. <sarcasm>

How many people in the U.S. die a year from just normal influenza? Or Pneumonia? Probably more than a few thousand.

Maybe this will stimulate the healthcare economy.

[MICoastieMom]

Originally Posted by magellan

Huh? Damage our economy? I agree with others that this is way overblown. Remember the Bird Flu? SARS? West Nile Virus? The carnage was so massive, they're still cleaning up bodies in our area. <sarcasm>

How many people in the U.S. die a year from just normal influenza? Or Pneumonia? Probably more than a few thousand.

Maybe this will stimulate the healthcare economy.

If the healthcare industry is to be helped by this, then it will have to a much better job than it did during the last swine flu epidemic in 1976. The drug companies geared up by producing lots of vaccine, only to have 2 dozen more deaths from the vaccine than from the flu. The single fatality was an already-ill soldier from Ft. Dix who participated in a five-mile march against medical advice. In addition to the 25 deaths from the vaccine, over 500 people suffered from the effects of Guillain-Barre syndrome. Watching my MIL die from the advancing paralysis of this condition is enough to convince me that I will never have a flu shot.

Actually, the 1918 pandemic, which killed between 20 and 40 million people worldwide in a single year, is, from the reading I have done, a strain of swine flu.

[Nyse]

Originally Posted by kazoopilot

Are you serious? Hundreds have died from this! This is a real threat, and if nothing else, it will seriously damage our economy.

Not hundreds, 150 at least in Mexico and none in the U.S. And the regular flu kills on average 36,000 every year. So, we are a long way to go yet to be comparing the swine flu to the regular flu in terms of deaths.

Its people like you and the media that cause panic and should just keep their mouths shut.

[Bydand]

Swine Flu - Bah, what a farce. As has been said already,many more die from the regular flu than swine flu whenever it rears its head.