Remember Swine Flu?
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I had it. And I KNOW I had it. Didn't puke once. It just sapped my strength enough that sitting upright was a strain on my neck. But that's all it did. Makes you sweat like a pig and saps your energy. Oh, and makes you breathe like an asthmatic.deus-ex-machina said:
Perfectly put.Colonel Alzheimer said:
PS: There should be OUTRAGE over how many millions of units of the vaccine EXPIRED.
EXPIRED. WHAT_THE_FUCK. What a waste of money, god I hope my country (Australia) didn't buy into that vaccine... So useless, so unnecessary (except for weak old people and children).
ah swine flu. that was a crazy crazy time, some people out there are really really dumb. seriously one person said that we are were all going to die from it unless we just quarantine every one and that if we eat pork we'll die of swine flu.
swine flu really wasn't a serious thing and i can say that because i had it. the media over dramatizes everything.
swine flu really wasn't a serious thing and i can say that because i had it. the media over dramatizes everything.
I think I had it, I never got the shot, I got a fever that hit 105 at a couple points.Marter said:
It sucked, it was horrible, but it was NOT anywhere near it was hyped to be.
Now that I think about it, I probably didn't have it. I was sick, and my mom called the doctor, and they said to assume everyone has swine flu... without even asking the symptoms.deus-ex-machina said:
It's always possible I got a really mild case, but still.
You still didn't answer my question.The_root_of_all_evil said:
The symptoms you listed could still have been a bad sniffly cold. Man-flu, perhaps? It was very easy to test for and unless you're a microbiologist and you tested yourself, saying you KNOW you had it still doesn't mean much, even if you spell it in capitals.Edit: Ah, sorry for sounding like an asshole, but it just irks me because I was working in a pharmacy at the time and everyone was saying they had it even though most of the idiots were coming in themselves for their medication and sneezing around me. The few people I know who did have it were stuck in bed and haven't got much to boast about because it reduced them to snivelling idiots.
Heh, I caught the damn thing. It's just that most people don;t get flu in the summer, so most people stopped caring. It looks like the vaccination is going to be put to use again this winter, though.
Swine flu was the funniest thing ever, I want it back.
Soooooo many paranoid people about. Some of the people i work with said it was released by the American government "LIKE THE SPANISH FLU!" so they could track its worldwide spread and the same people also said "Australia should of completely sealed its borders to prevent outbreaks, imagine the money we would of saved on treatments!" LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
Soooooo many paranoid people about. Some of the people i work with said it was released by the American government "LIKE THE SPANISH FLU!" so they could track its worldwide spread and the same people also said "Australia should of completely sealed its borders to prevent outbreaks, imagine the money we would of saved on treatments!" LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
Yes I remember it. I didn't get the dreaded swine flu, but a friend told me it was no worse than normal flu, seeing this topic got me to root around the newspapers to see what they were saying at the time.
For example, the Daily Star ran with the headline 'PIG FLU STRIKES TWO BRITS', prompting them to say 750,000 people could die from it. *facepalm*
Then again I wouldn't touch the Daily Star with a 10-foot barge pole because of the amount of crap they put out. Other papers were just as bad, running with headlines like 'The whole of humanity is under threat' *massive facepalm resulting in falling of my chair*
For example, the Daily Star ran with the headline 'PIG FLU STRIKES TWO BRITS', prompting them to say 750,000 people could die from it. *facepalm*
Then again I wouldn't touch the Daily Star with a 10-foot barge pole because of the amount of crap they put out. Other papers were just as bad, running with headlines like 'The whole of humanity is under threat' *massive facepalm resulting in falling of my chair*
No. It was never any more contagious or deadly than any of the other forms of influenza that have been around for centuries. This particular form only even got on the news because a couple Mexican doctors overstated how fatal it was in the first couple weeks and it's a distant relative of the Spanish Influenza, which was actually bad. The whole thing was in reality a sadly overhyped mess.SakSak said:
How could I forget it?
People completely mixed up caution and fear, "it could be the next spanish flu" turned into "WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE, JUST LIKE THAT HANDFUL OF FRAIL PEOPLE WITH NO ACCESS TO PROPER MEDICAL TREATMENT!"
People completely mixed up caution and fear, "it could be the next spanish flu" turned into "WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE, JUST LIKE THAT HANDFUL OF FRAIL PEOPLE WITH NO ACCESS TO PROPER MEDICAL TREATMENT!"
People rarely see the swine flu for what it is.
The Swine Flu was nasty strain of flu, but still just a flu. It causes something called a Cytokine Storm. Being afraid of something called a CYTOKINE STORM is absolutely legitimate, as it sounds like a mutant power. Now on one hand, it wasn't cause for massive alarm. Seasonal Flu kills way more people, and the media blew it out of proportion. But on the other, the Swine Flu is extremely similar to the flu outbreak in 1918, the Spanish Flu, that infected 1/3 of the worlds population, and killed about 3% of it, one of the deadliest natural disasters in history. Overall, it's better to be safe then sorry, and it's better to laugh about it later then risk that many lives. As it was, most of us, likely being healthy 15-35 males, can afford to scoff at the Swine Flu, because it presented minimal risk to us. But people with kids, or with comprimised or weak respiratory systems, or newborns, had reason to be more afraid of Swine then the normal flu. It was a legitimate health concern that was handled appropriately, but people seem to want to look at it in black and white, as either the end of civilization, or a complete joke.
The Swine Flu was nasty strain of flu, but still just a flu. It causes something called a Cytokine Storm. Being afraid of something called a CYTOKINE STORM is absolutely legitimate, as it sounds like a mutant power. Now on one hand, it wasn't cause for massive alarm. Seasonal Flu kills way more people, and the media blew it out of proportion. But on the other, the Swine Flu is extremely similar to the flu outbreak in 1918, the Spanish Flu, that infected 1/3 of the worlds population, and killed about 3% of it, one of the deadliest natural disasters in history. Overall, it's better to be safe then sorry, and it's better to laugh about it later then risk that many lives. As it was, most of us, likely being healthy 15-35 males, can afford to scoff at the Swine Flu, because it presented minimal risk to us. But people with kids, or with comprimised or weak respiratory systems, or newborns, had reason to be more afraid of Swine then the normal flu. It was a legitimate health concern that was handled appropriately, but people seem to want to look at it in black and white, as either the end of civilization, or a complete joke.
I really didin't care about it and I didin't want to take the shot beacose I'm too afraid of needles but i was forced
