H1N1 FLU VIRUS
Symptoms include vomiting, fever, and making paranoid people look silly.
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EXACTLY what I’ve been saying.
This stupid flu is NOTHING to worry about. Retarded American Media has just blown this out of proportion. (American, btw)
Yeah, that’s why the Japanese wear face masks every time someone sneezes.
That’s only when someone has a cold, the flu, or SARS.
So that they can’t spread it to others, since coughing bodily fluids spreads them the most
Yeah, the Japanese are smart, in that the sick person wears the mask, so the rest of us don’t have to!
Really, masks are pretty unnecessary in the first place–if you’re sick, just stay home. You get a few days off work, your friends don’t get the flu, everybody wins.
Except for those that don’t accumulate sick leave and have others that rely on their paycheck. Ever caught the Mongolian Death Flu from a cow-orker? Happens more frequently than one might imagine.
my favorite co-workers were the ones who insisted on coming to work sick even though we could take limited paid sick days and we had medical insurance, but heaven forbid they missed making a sale or worse yet, didn’t get their year end bonus for not missing any time, leaving the rest of us exposed to their cr@p at work. i don’t miss retail at all!
UGH.. I agree.
And yet, no less than FIVE local school districts have been closed down for a good week or so, because there were “suspected” cases.
My stepdaughter had a cough yesterday morning. Just a slight cough. And her mother flipped out that we were going to send her to school, because “zomg she could have swine flu!!!!1111111oneoneone”
If she’s that paranoid, wouldn’t she WANT to send the potentially sick daughter to school to get away from her?
Uhh… it’s a good idea not to send sick kids to school. If you do, everybody else’s kid will get it; plus, they’ll be miserable going to classes when they should be eating soup and sleeping. The paranoia was a bad idea, though.
She coughed a couple of times after she woke up. After she was up for an hour or so, she was fine. There was NOTHING else. No sneezing, no fever, no ANYTHING. My house is probably just a bit dry for her.
I’m not new to this, thanks.
“Had a cough” is not the same as “coughed a few times”. I was assuming, from what you wrote, that the child was coughing regularly rather than just had a dry throat that resolved with a drink of water.
I live in the USA, I never worry about getting sick, and I rarely get sick, or at least I don’t notice I’m sick. The few times I am sick I never take anything for it because the sickness still last just as long.
Now the people who take over the counter medication during every little illness seem to get sick all the dam time and complain every time they get a little ache or something, they are the ones who make these little scares into something that seems life threatening, and most of this dam country is filled with these idiots.
Btw if you are sick, you really should stay home unless you physically can’t eat anything for more then 2 days or have unusual pain that doesn’t go away or weaken the next day. But then again I am the one who doesn’t realize that they broke a bone unless the limb is bent in a very unusual way or spot.
Of course that assumes the person has paid sick leave, which a high percentage of American workers do not.
this is true, but going to work sick increases the duration of your own illness, your chances of getting reinfected, and has led to an increase in treatment resistant bugs, as well as superbugs.
No, actually treatment-resistant bugs are caused by idiots not finishing their medication.
But there’s many people who get nasty things like chronic bronchitis because they didn’t take care of the original infection before it caused damage. That, and smoking. Smoking makes any respiratory infection worse.
not just American, sweetheart.
Remember Bird Flu? Same thing happening now.
Indeed. Plus it’s not just the American media, it’s global. The only reason all the Mexicans got it bad is due to their poor health care. Here in the UK, we don’t have that problem. I mean sure, it’s not perfect, but it’s better than Mexico’s health care…
People are getting all up in arms about it because of the bird flu scare, which I may remind everyone, resulted in pretty much… nothing?
i agree! bird flu was supposed to kill us all, and the year before that we were all going to die in shark attacks, then sars was going to wipe out the planet, now swine flu? 2 cases in virgina and its a PANDEMIC! MILLIONS WILL DIE!!
What about West Nile?
The term “pandemic” is related to the global spread of a virus and is more about scope and transmitability than mortality.
Exactly. The common cold is a pandemic, for example; and the seasonal flu is a pandemic. (The common cold can also be referred as “endemic”–that is, humans serve as the reservoir and the germs survive by being passed around among us.) “Pandemic” refers to how well a disease spreads and how many people have it, not how many it kills.
The reason some Mexicans got it (not all, read a little more) is because my government is stupid enough to let everyone in without a visa. Springbreakers and other people come here without us knowing whe the f*ck they are.
I wonder if you have ever even been to Mexico? It’s not that we have bad health care. The real reason is that here, people don’t go to the doctor when sick. We, as a country, have some bad habits. But bad healthcare? Yeah…like the US has an awsome health care. That’s why they have no new agressive TB born in the hospitals, right? *sarcasm please*
Now, I’ve never been to UK so I can’t really say you’re wrong there.
The flu is nothing? Yeah, well…you die without treatment. Nothing…yeah, right. Hope it’s nothing if you are unfortunate enough to get it.
seriously, do you know how many times i have had the flu due to the fact that i get a really bad reaction to the flu shots? i have never gotten so sick that i needed to be hospitalized, if it got to the point where i was dehydrated and not holding fluids due to vomiting or something like that, i go to the local urgent care clinic, see a dr, get a prescription for the nausea, and sleep it off while drinking lots of water and making sure my temp is somewhat regulated. if you look for the signs of things that can lead to hospitalization such as dehydration, you can usually stop it in it’s tracks before it gets to that extreme. obviously, the flu has not killed me yet….
Nausea/vomiting is not a symptom of the flu. Influenza is a respiratory infection. If you’re smart enough to know that you need to stay hydrated and control your fever, you should be smart enough to know the symptoms of the flu. That’s why this swine flu has gotten so out of hand. People think every little cough is going to kill them.
Heh. Funny thing is, this photo has nothing to do with flu.
It’s a respirator fit test. Testees put the funny hoods over their heads while wearing a respirator. The testor sprays banana oil into the hood through a small hole while the testee moves his/her head around while repeating a strange string of words. If they taste no banana oil, the test is successful.
I’ve been through dozens of these….
i was just about to comment what you just commented!!
*hug*
Yeah, I had a feeling that the picture itself had nothing to do with the flu, since the women appear to be in nurse garb. But, I couldn’t resist.
S’cool. The nurses respirator fitting may have indeed been originated in H1N1 hysteria.
The respirator fit testing is required annually for Tuberculosis and other airborn pathogen precautions. Not just from the recent N1H1 developments.
Thank you. I’m a nurse and just got done with this fit testing at work. You just have to make sure the mask fits properly when you care for anyone with TB.
The fit test is likely for any job where a respirator is required. I work in a denim mill and we have to do these every time they decide to switch brands of respirator.
I’m puzzled as to why they are doing the test sitting down. We do it standing and have to kind of bounce around, among other things, in them to make sure they don’t let air go around rather than through.
Yes. They are obviously nurses in a children’s hospital getting fitted for a repirator. This has nothing to do with swine flu and frankly I don’t think its very funny.
Oooh. Yeah, you have a good point there. I feel so bad for the little kids!
relax. It’s a joke site.
THANK YOU! We have to do this with every new employee at the shipyard, at least the ones that will be around painting, insulating, and welding smoke. And then we wear them around the dark corners of the subs and scare the new guys, hehe. Darth Vader impressions, if I hear another one, I’m gonna put arsenic in the filters…
+1 for the knowledge drop.
HUHUHUHUHUHUHUHUHHUHUHHUHUHHUHHUH!
You said testees.
Lawdy, it took you long enough!!111!!
I’m so glad you said that, cause I was about to say the same thing.
glad someone else mentioned that…I go through this about twice a year for mask fit testing…it sucks but it has absolutely nothing to do with the flu.
I don’t know how people can stop eating bacon just because it’s called ‘swine’ flu. Unless you eat uncooked meat which will make you sick anyway, you wont get sick, not that swine flu is transmitted through pig meat for goodness sake. Leave the bacon out of this and call it H1N1 like above.
Leave the Bacon Lube out of it!
*puts on bad eyeliner and starts crying and screaming*
LEAVE BACON LUBE ALONE!!!
H1N1 includes a bunch of strains, though, not just the currently-famous-reassortment-that-caused-some-cases-and-a-few-deaths-in-Mexico-apparently-related-to-a-pig-farm strain. I’ma keep calling it swine flu.
I have decided to be dying of swine flu because I’m sniffly and want a day off school…
I fell down the stairs and I heard a crack. Now something white is sticking out of my wrist. Do I have swine flu?
You have bird flu and west nile.
And SARS.
And dengue. Wait, that’s actually dangerous. My bad.
Nah, we’re all out of West Nile and birds, you will have to get East Nile and Fish Flu.
Plagiarism!
Source?
XKCD.
Yahoo Answers.
My favorite part of that was “My dad says flu vaccines are linked to autism, so to be safe from swine flu I’m trying to lick an autistic kid.”
The best part is that China has stopped importing pork products, which is scientifically irrational. The flu cannot even be contracted by eating pork products.
The US is not the only country to blow this out of proportion.
In fact, it has been scientifically proven that eating raw pork will prevent swine flu. Break out the pork tartare!
Eww. Just, eww.
I said this to one of my, ahem, more trusting and easily panicked co-workers recently, as a joke. I had to quickly explain that I was, in fact, joking and they should not, under any circumstances, eat raw pork.
Lol, like the time I told one of my friends, while using a hot-glue gun, that Martha Stewart said you could also use them to give yourself a bikini wax. Wow.
a friend of mine was upset that krispy kreme is no longer making donut holes. I asked her, “How do they make the donuts without cutting out the holes?” She thought about it for a minute before she realized it was a joke.
To be fair, it was early on a friday morning.
I happened to be on the phone to my mum while at a station where one of the escalators wasn’t running. I said, “Oh no, the escalator’s not working, how will I get off the platform?”
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Mum: “[silence]”
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Mum: “Oh, right, you had me thinking about it for a second.”
Trichinosis vs. swine flu
China AND Russia. Both utilizing a stoopid loophole in international commerce laws to bolster their own pork industries.
90 people get the “swine” flu and millions of people put on a mask….millions of people have AIDS and only a few people wear condoms…..I see something very wrong with this. =/
ftw.
I grant you 1 internet!
Yeah but AIDS is just for gay people. @@
Well, it might prevent a few people catching colds. Overreaction to swine flu? Probably. Good practice for everyday colds? Probably.
probably not. Most viruses arent actually stopped by the masks unless they’re specifically rated to do so. And most of the ones people will buy, aren’t
What I don’t get is that the people wearing the masks also rub their eyes and forget to wash their hands. Yeah, buddy, the mask’s gonna do a great deal of good.
Indeed. I think that if the army is handing out masks here in Mexico they should also give condoms away. I’m serious D: Really.
my bfs dad acutally told him he was lucky he works outside, less likely to catch swine flu…..and he was dead serious. sooooomeone watches faux news
He’s technically right. Flu spreads better inside, where people work closely together and share air. He’s less vulnerable to the common cold and the regular flu too. He doesn’t have much reason to worry about swine flu while there are still so few cases, though. The odds are against catching it.
i want one of those hoods!
oh wait, i’m in cowlifornia.. might get shot for being different
I live in Texas, and I can see Mexico from my house. I am also Catholic. There was no shared chalice this week. That was understandable. People were not given communion in the hand as well. That was a little confusing, but I think it was to prevent the virus among priests, if it ever spread. However, after ALL those precautions (they were pre-announced), the family down from me and the man in front of me used hand sanitizer after the handshake of peace. On a separate note, my Business Comm professor, who has a bachelor’s degree in virology, talked about H1N1 between presentations last week. *headbang*
Palin reference WIN!
All you need to know about reacting to swine flu:
http://www.doihaveswineflu.org
Dude, that’s not even what it’s about. The picture is of a stupid test (you need it if you work in a hospital) to make sure you have the correct size TB (tuberculosis) mask.
Dude, it doesn’t matter what it’s about. The pictures are used to make humorous captions, not to accurately state what’s happening.
I wish we stayed with the “Swine Flu” – it was so retro. Now it’s the Heiny virus and that just makes me think of a bunch of assheads sneezing.
Haha they’re making such a big deal of it in New Zealand we are apparently the 3rd most affected country. And our quarantine is just to stay at home, have the tv news crew come and visit, and get your family to come in and say hi. Honestly if this actually is a big disaster and it can affect our unusual climate we are screwed.
While this may look silly, this is not actually a “flu scare” these are health care professionals getting fitted for masks mainly as protection from tuberculosis. Those hats are put on and the lady without the mask in injecting an aerosol that smells unholy and you can tell your mask doesn’t fit perfectly if you can smell it. This is routinely done for health care professional every few years and doesn’t specifically have to do with teh flu.
This is a TB test doctors and nurses must do every year to get a properly fitting mask so no bacteria can get in. It has nothing to do with swine flu!
These are health-care workers being fit-tested for N-95 masks. I’m a nurse in a pediatric clinic and had to go through this because everyone freaked out over nothing.
Do be on the watch for Wine Flu however. It’s symptoms are quite odd. You feel better when you have it and worse right after it goes away.
It’s not paranoia, it’s hypochondria
Fail
The caption in this picture makes no sense. These healthcare workers are being “fit tested” to ensure that the face masks (N95 respirators) they are wearing fit and do not leak. The larger mask/hood they are wearing are there to contain the atomized solution being pumped into the hood. The regular face masks are necessary for patients in isolation to prevent healthcare workers from spreading infection to other patients. Yes, it looks silly, but they do not walk around with those on after the fit test is over. Good job on the accuracy! lol
It’s a panacaea for those who DEMAND attention, and darn good entertainment for the rest of us!
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LoL. It is a serious matter, but some people get ridiculous about it.