[Timmy Tebow]

Ok here's the deal....

Swine Flu isn't that big of a deal. The kid who died from the USA was 23 months old and from Mexico. It's treatable and only last 48 hours. They have medicine for it. People are over reacting because it's out of flu season and so many people died in Mexico from it. Well, Mexico has really bad, unsanitary living conditions. Also, their health care isn't as good as a country like USA, England, Austrailia, etc. I'm sick of hearing about te swine flu. 30,000 people every year die of the regular flu. Swine Flu is just like any other flu.

[xChumChumx]

It is like any other flu. But it has more of a scare tactic around it because there are a lot of things unknown about it. There are treatments because it is still a type of flu, but it should still be a concern. Especially because it seems to be spreading so rapidly. That is most people's concern, not how many people it has killed but how fast it is spreading from place to place.

[Sir Nicky Talent]

Cases in the east and north east. This is not good.

[CGS]

Im 50/50 on this one. Some people may be overreacting about this but at the same time the flu seems to be spreading at a really fast rate. within the space of a couple of weeks its pretty much spread from Mexico to USA, Australia, Canada, New Zeland, Britain & a couple of other places that i can't member at this moment. People are overreacting in the sense though that a normal flu could also kill people. It really just the fact that this type of flu is unknown & is spreading from country to country on more or less a daily basis.

[John Smith]

For the record, 4,000 people die of regular flu in the UK every year.

[rpd]

Originally Posted by Flip

You mean the 2009 h1n1 flu?

From what I have heard, this is a mutation of the H1N1 flu in 1918, which killed 50-100 million people. Of course with almost 100 years of medical advancement, I don't see a number nearly that close. Like about 99,995,000 off at the least.

The only reason I'm somewhat worried about it is that I live in San Antonio and there is a rumored case at a High School 6 miles from my own. My dad had actually came down with some flu like symptoms, but luckily it was not Swine.

I'm hoping for a week of no school, but I doubt it.

[Smarketh.]

This is just the first step of the real-life Project Mayhem.

"We are the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world".

[rpd]

I'm liking Project Mayhem over another sign of the Apocalypse.

[The Phantom]

I work for a Doctors out of hours service, and the public are certainly over cautious in my opinion. (We basically take calls from people worried about their health when the doctors is shut.)

This is a true story: One person phoned up saying they have flu like symptoms, and are worried that it could be swine flu. When one of the operators asked the person phoning in if they'd been in contact with someone who'd been to Mexico lately, they replied "Yes, I spoke to my friend over the telephone!!!" Fuckin' idiot.

[Guardian Devil]

Well the thing here we have to consider as well is the fact that regular flu spread pretty rapidly as well, but it's not on anyone's "radar" so nobody really notices.

Think about how many times someone in a class of yours or your work gets the flu and how quickly several people are suddenly sick with it. One lady in the office at my job got the flu from her kid about 6 months ago, then suddenly everyone in the office aside from me missed 2/3 days work because of the flu. Only real difference with H1N1 is that there's no vaccine to prevent it, but the same meds after infection apply.

Fucking country worries about stupid shit, this is certainly no surprise.