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Posted by Jinx Minx on October 21, 2009, 4:15 pm
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>> There is a big debate going on the the USA about health care. The
>> Canadian system comes in for a lot of criticism. Our Federal and
>> Provincial governments placed firm orders for enough flu shots for every
>> man woman and child in Canada who wants one. Final approval is expected
>> by
>> the end of this week. 2 million shots have already been dispatched to
>> remote places where it takes days to get them there. As soon as approval
>> is given, any Canadian who wants one can have an H1N1 flu shot for free.
>> Jim.
> Ours are starting next week - already had our annual flu shots, and may as
> well have the Swine flu ones since we`re both regarded as being at risk.
> Mind you, an awful lot of us are quite sure that it`s all been overhyped
> by the media - like the bird flu panic! It`s a very mild virus - you`re
> as likely to be killed by a cold!!!
> Pat
H1N1 might not be as widespread or as big of deal in the UK as it is here in
the US, but I assure you, it's no mild virus, especially to people with
certain health conditions (mostly children). We have entire schools
shutting down simply because nearly all the kids are out sick with it here
it's that widespread. Sure, healthy kids and senior citizens with prior
exposure will recover just fine.
And while the total number of avian flu cases in the whole world was less
than 500, there have been more than 400,000 cases of H1N1 and nearly 5000
deaths. In some places it's so widespread they are no longer counting those
cases that are considered mild. Although certainly the media has talked it
to death, I don't think that it's "overhyped" to be worse than it is,
especially not so to parents of small children. It's all a matter of
perspective, I suppose.
Jinx
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Posted by Fran on October 21, 2009, 5:20 pm
And from as someone whose slowly recovering from it - it's no joke, it
takes a good five days for the fever to break, then a couple more days
to start feeling better. And this is the "mild" version. It seems
like 1/4 of the office has it, and it's rampant in the schools right
now.
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Posted by Pat P on October 21, 2009, 5:50 pm
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>>> There is a big debate going on the the USA about health care. The
>>> Canadian system comes in for a lot of criticism. Our Federal and
>>> Provincial governments placed firm orders for enough flu shots for every
>>> man woman and child in Canada who wants one. Final approval is expected
>>> by
>>> the end of this week. 2 million shots have already been dispatched to
>>> remote places where it takes days to get them there. As soon as
>>> approval
>>> is given, any Canadian who wants one can have an H1N1 flu shot for free.
>>> Jim.
>> Ours are starting next week - already had our annual flu shots, and may
>> as well have the Swine flu ones since we`re both regarded as being at
>> risk. Mind you, an awful lot of us are quite sure that it`s all been
>> overhyped by the media - like the bird flu panic! It`s a very mild
>> virus - you`re as likely to be killed by a cold!!!
>> Pat
> H1N1 might not be as widespread or as big of deal in the UK as it is here
> in the US, but I assure you, it's no mild virus, especially to people with
> certain health conditions (mostly children). We have entire schools
> shutting down simply because nearly all the kids are out sick with it here
> it's that widespread. Sure, healthy kids and senior citizens with prior
> exposure will recover just fine.
> And while the total number of avian flu cases in the whole world was less
> than 500, there have been more than 400,000 cases of H1N1 and nearly 5000
> deaths. In some places it's so widespread they are no longer counting
> those cases that are considered mild. Although certainly the media has
> talked it to death, I don't think that it's "overhyped" to be worse than
> it is, especially not so to parents of small children. It's all a matter
> of perspective, I suppose.
> Jinx
Oh it`s pretty widespread here - died down a bit but is on the way up again.
The news gleefully reports ""so many have died!" but it`s nowhere near the
numbers that usually die from "normal" flu. We were talking about it to
John`s cardiologist about it when we were up at Papworth Hospital, Cambridge
and I remarked that I thought it was media-hyped - he totally agreed. His
wife is a GP and is run off her feet with people with the slightest sniffle
panicking. Well, it is in a University Town, so is bound to spread amongst
students there, probably more than in many places.
My sister-in-law has just got over it. She was down with it for a few days,
thought it had gone and it came right back. No-one LIKES flu, in any shape
or form and we always have our flu jabs as we`re both regarded as high risk
(both diabetic, John now has a pacemaker and we`re both in our seventies).
But don`t the media just LOVE it?
Of course whenever there`s flu about, nearly everyone with a slight
sniffle/sore throat will claim to have it - but when it actually IS flu,
there`s certainly no mistaking it, is there? You can`t do anything but stay
in bed for a few days. Having said all that I`m BOUND to get it now!
Did you get the Tamiflu? We hear that that is worse then the flu it`s
supposed to cure!
The clocks go back this weekend and it`s colder and wet - no doubt it will
really get going in the next few weeks.
Let`s hope we all steer clear of it, anyway. We can all do without it,
can`t we?
Pat P
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Posted by Susan Hartman on October 21, 2009, 6:30 pm
Pat P wrote:
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> Let`s hope we all steer clear of it, anyway. We can all do without it,
> can`t we?
>
> Pat P
>
>
Amen to that. My singing teacher today had a paper quoting a doctor with
some common-sense suggestions: Wash hands a lot. (Of course.) But he
pointed out it's a *respiratory* virus, and enters through nose and
mouth, where the germs are harbored. So common sense things: try not to
touch your face, gargle twice a day with warm salt water, rinse nostrils
with salt water (dab inside nose with salt-water drenched q-tip after a
good blow to clear things out), and drink hot liquids. All of these
sound reasonable to me, and inexpensive and easily do-able.
Sue
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Susan Hartman/Dirty Linen
The Magazine of Folk and World Music
www.dirtylinen.com
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>> Canadian system comes in for a lot of criticism. Our Federal and
>> Provincial governments placed firm orders for enough flu shots for every
>> man woman and child in Canada who wants one. Final approval is expected
>> by
>> the end of this week. 2 million shots have already been dispatched to
>> remote places where it takes days to get them there. As soon as approval
>> is given, any Canadian who wants one can have an H1N1 flu shot for free.
>> Jim.
> Ours are starting next week - already had our annual flu shots, and may as
> well have the Swine flu ones since we`re both regarded as being at risk.
> Mind you, an awful lot of us are quite sure that it`s all been overhyped
> by the media - like the bird flu panic! It`s a very mild virus - you`re
> as likely to be killed by a cold!!!
> Pat