My Girlfriend has the flu.
I'll need to wait until Saturday to know if I'm safe or not.
until then, I shall eat as much pork as I can. So I can take my vegence! :menace:
Best. Thread. Title. Ever.
Do they take swabs? Here, we were just diagnosed on symptoms and my son wasn't allowed to go to school for 7 days. Very mild. More tiring than a cold though. We were offered Tamiflu with no warnings about the side effects. Looked up the side effects and realised it wasn't worth taking.
Quote from: Grey Fox on August 12, 2009, 12:19:19 PM
Best. Thread. Title. Ever.
It is good, isn't it. :lol:
Quote from: swallow on August 12, 2009, 12:22:45 PM
Do they take swabs? Here, we were just diagnosed on symptoms and my son wasn't allowed to go to school for 7 days. Very mild. More tiring than a cold though. We were offered Tamiflu with no warnings about the side effects. Looked up the side effects and realised it wasn't worth taking.
Wow that's retarded, and not just because of the side effects. Way to go producing a drug-resistant strain if they prescribe tamiflu every time someone has a cold.
Quote from: I Killed Kenny on August 12, 2009, 12:18:42 PM
I'll need to wait until Saturday to know if I'm safe or not.
:blink:
Stay home. Don't move. Lock yourself in your room if you live with somebody. DO NOT interact with anyone. Have food delivered to you and don't return the dirty dishes until you know you're ok or not. And if you have contracted the disease, stay in your bed with your eyes closed and think of other things.
Above all, do *not* do anything that might spread that damn thing to ME. Or else I'll kill you.
:lmfao: Nice work, Kenny.
Quote from: Martim Silva on August 12, 2009, 01:39:11 PM
Quote from: I Killed Kenny on August 12, 2009, 12:18:42 PM
I'll need to wait until Saturday to know if I'm safe or not.
:blink:
Stay home. Don't move. Lock yourself in your room if you live with somebody. DO NOT interact with anyone. Have food delivered to you and don't return the dirty dishes until you know you're ok or not. And if you have contracted the disease, stay in your bed with your eyes closed and think of other things.
Above all, do *not* do anything that might spread that damn thing to ME. Or else I'll kill you.
For the love of god don't post on the net either. You might infect the tubes.
Quote from: Martinus on August 12, 2009, 01:24:47 PM
Way to go producing a drug-resistant strain if they prescribe tamiflu every time someone has a cold.
Thank god they didn't offer it just because someone was having a cold.
Quote from: Martim Silva on August 12, 2009, 01:39:11 PM
Quote from: I Killed Kenny on August 12, 2009, 12:18:42 PM
I'll need to wait until Saturday to know if I'm safe or not.
:blink:
Stay home. Don't move. Lock yourself in your room if you live with somebody. DO NOT interact with anyone. Have food delivered to you and don't return the dirty dishes until you know you're ok or not. And if you have contracted the disease, stay in your bed with your eyes closed and think of other things.
Above all, do *not* do anything that might spread that damn thing to ME. Or else I'll kill you.
Nice sarcasm. No wait, you're Martim. Overreacting much?
Quote from: The Brain on August 12, 2009, 02:36:40 PM
Nice sarcasm. No wait, you're Martim. Overreacting much?
Over here there is some concern about this flu. Especially because the retards are starting to think, in typical portuguese fashion, "if I [or my children] have this, then I'll make others have it too", and are going to work sick, or sending their sick children to school in order to infect others.
The government is looking into pressing criminal charges against these people, but they say it's impossible to contain the virus when parts of the population are spreading it on purpose.
Also, I recently had a very acute case of chickenpox (at age 39) which was quite bad for my immune system [made me look like a mutant survivor of a nuclear holocaust in a B-class horror movie] and I haven't recovered totally, so who knows what that virus would do to me.
Quote from: Martim Silva on August 12, 2009, 02:45:17 PM
Quote from: The Brain on August 12, 2009, 02:36:40 PM
Nice sarcasm. No wait, you're Martim. Overreacting much?
Over here there is some concern about this flu. Especially because the retards are starting to think, in typical portuguese fashion, "if I [or my children] have this, then I'll make others have it too", and are going to work sick, or sending their sick children to school in order to infect others.
The government is looking into pressing criminal charges against these people, but they say it's impossible to contain the virus when parts of the population are spreading it on purpose.
Also, I recently had a very acute case of chickenpox (at age 39) which was quite bad for my immune system [made me look like a mutant survivor of a nuclear holocaust in a B-class horror movie] and I haven't recovered totally, so who knows what that virus would do to me.
Here's a thought: then maybe YOU should lock yourself in.
Pack it in, boys. <_<
just make sure your pork is from smithfield, tyson or maple leaf. and remember to undercook it, so its just past raw and the blood is mostly unheated.
Quote from: The Brain on August 12, 2009, 02:47:00 PM
Here's a thought: then maybe YOU should lock yourself in.
I'd like to do that more than you'd think, but I have a lot of responsibilities that require my presence :(
Until then, at work all public places (toilets, photocopiers, water fountains) now have detailed instructions on how to wash hands thouroughly and safely, as well as bottles of sterilized alchool to wash them with. HR has also distributed information about how to tell the H1N1 flu from the others and the procedure to take if one gets infected.
The Swine Flu didn't rubed me already.
Still I'll drink as much Lemon Tea and drink as much water as I can, I really hope I don't get it so I can rub it on my girlfriends face :menace:
Quote from: garbon on August 12, 2009, 02:35:05 PM
Quote from: Martinus on August 12, 2009, 01:24:47 PM
Way to go producing a drug-resistant strain if they prescribe tamiflu every time someone has a cold.
Thank god they didn't offer it just because someone was having a cold.
In any case, most cases of flu do not warrant the use of Tamiflu.
This flu has killed less people then the normal winter flu. As long as there isn't a sudden mutation in the virus, healthy people should be fine. Besides it is never the flu that kills you, but always a secondary pathology (like pneumonia).
And there is no need to take Tamilflu. Most people heal fine without it. Only the worst cases should get Tamilflu. Otherwise, we could get a Tamilflu-resistant virus.
Quote from: BVN on August 13, 2009, 06:52:32 AM
This flu has killed less people then the normal winter flu. As long as there isn't a sudden mutation in the virus, healthy people should be fine. Besides it is never the flu that kills you, but always a secondary pathology (like pneumonia).
And there is no need to take Tamilflu. Most people heal fine without it. Only the worst cases should get Tamilflu. Otherwise, we could get a Tamilflu-resistant virus.
Agreed in both counts.
The second wave, that may come in winter, may however prove more dangerous due to accompanying diseases, that often crop up in winter. Which is why, paradoxically, people who get the swine flu now may be the safest because they will acquire some immunity to the virus before it hits back.
Quote from: Martim Silva on August 12, 2009, 04:53:45 PM
Quote from: The Brain on August 12, 2009, 02:47:00 PM
Here's a thought: then maybe YOU should lock yourself in.
I'd like to do that more than you'd think, but I have a lot of responsibilities that require my presence :(
Until then, at work all public places (toilets, photocopiers, water fountains) now have detailed instructions on how to wash hands thouroughly and safely, as well as bottles of sterilized alchool to wash them with. HR has also distributed information about how to tell the H1N1 flu from the others and the procedure to take if one gets infected.
I hope you stay healthy. :)
Quote from: BVN on August 13, 2009, 06:52:32 AM
This flu has killed less people then the normal winter flu. As long as there isn't a sudden mutation in the virus, healthy people should be fine. Besides it is never the flu that kills you, but always a secondary pathology (like pneumonia).
And there is no need to take Tamilflu. Most people heal fine without it. Only the worst cases should get Tamilflu. Otherwise, we could get a Tamilflu-resistant virus.
Tamilflu?
Is that used against the rare Tiger Flu virus? :huh:
just wash you hands.
for some strange reason, a large number of medical pros in hospitals are refusing to be vaccinated.
I still have no idea what "rubed" means.
Quote from: Grey Fox on August 13, 2009, 01:13:12 PM
I still have no idea what "rubed" means.
And here I thought, IKK was the one who taught you English.
Anyway, the connection is to the type that IKK posted about being "robbed" on the "beach".
Didn't get to that lesson yet.
Oh and as a precaucionary (sp) massure I'm on Tamiflu now.
It tastes horrible.
Quote from: I Killed Kenny on August 13, 2009, 04:24:30 PM
Oh and as a precaucionary (sp) massure I'm on Tamiflu now.
It tastes horrible.
I did not auto-medicate, it was the medic that ordered me too, because I had intimate :perv: contact with my girlfriend one day before she showned any symptoms.
Quote from: saskganesh on August 13, 2009, 12:57:35 PM
just wash you hands.
for some strange reason, a large number of medical pros in hospitals are refusing to be vaccinated.
So they can get sick and go on medical leave? :P