View Full Version : We've got Swine Flu
When I say 'we' I mean my school. Confirmed case in a kids family.
But typical - they no longer close schools for swine flu because the containment policy is no longer viable!
Great get flu, just in time for the summer holidays!
So, to reduce the risk of you spreading it to the rest of the Org, you wont be attending the AR then.......................:rolleyes:
Runs like crazyyyyyy
Yearh right. If I don't then no-one else will grrrrr!
Yep, a kid in year 6 at my daughters school has it as well.
Better to get it now whilst the symptoms are still mild than to get it later after it mutates into something nastier :thumbsup:
One of my colleague's kids has it at their school and the lady who's desk is next to mine has pnumonia and had been coughing for weeks before she went to see the doc.
Swine 'flu and pnumonia. I'm a gonner :-(
yep, agree it's better to get a mild dose, specially when otherwise fit and well.
But not now! Just one week til summer holidays
Why couldn't we have got in in September ;(
Paul the 6th
10-07-09, 07:31 AM
so is it like guaranteed death or just like regular winter flu (which admittedly can kill but only in 'high risk' groups) where you feel rrrubbish for a few weeks but then get better with lots of pain killers and rest?
Miss Alpinestarhero
10-07-09, 07:37 AM
Oh noes..!
A couple of schols where I live have confirmed outbreaks of swine flu. I dont think theres any escape. If you're going to get it then you'l get it.
I dont think it is as bad as the media are making out. It is only a real concern if young children, elderly people and people with an exisiting health problem get it. But I could be wrong.
so is it like guaranteed death or just like regular winter flu?
Just flu but they give you pills to stop you being infectious. You get a sore throat & want to be sick if you continue going to the gym....
Paul the 6th
10-07-09, 07:51 AM
Just flu but they give you pills to stop you being infectious. You get a sore throat & want to be sick if you continue going to the gym....
ah well thank goodness for that, I thought it was on a par with mad cows disease/CJD or something which will basically end your life in a second. Good old news corporations starting fires eh :)
Jackie_Black
10-07-09, 07:57 AM
I think i'm getting something rubbish. Was sick last night and my stomach is going crazy. I also seem to be getting some mild flu like symptoms. SPose it's inevitable working in a school with 2000 kids.
timwilky
10-07-09, 08:00 AM
We have had a mail from the boss, two have been sent home by the site medical centre after showing flu like symptoms. We are therefore not allowed into work if you have :-
fever, with a temperature > 38°C
Cough
Sore Throat
Aching Limbs
Runny Nose
Shortness of Breath
Diarrhoea and Vomiting (Less common but have been reported)
We are a 45,000+ international company with many people travelling between sites & counties daily, there is therefore a great concern that one person could potentially mass infect the company. However, as two of my family work in the local hospital and I rarely go to any company offices, i think my risk of catching it is going to be a lot closer to home.
At the present time, the symptoms of swine 'flu are far more mild than those of "normal" 'flu.
Normal 'flu kills 1000s in this country each year (but no fuss is made in the media) whereas swine 'flu has been associated with just a few deaths in this country but these have been in people with far more serious existing conditions and who may well have died of these anyway.
Having had normal 'flu in the past i know which I'd prefer to have :thumbsup:
The media are interested because it has a good name - even though there's no actual link to pigs :-)
It's the colleague with pnumonia that bothers me far more (and the possibility of getting both together) :-(
Several people at work have had it.
metalangel
10-07-09, 08:30 AM
I'm buying studded leather and a muscle car in anticipation of having to raid the devastated ruins of Britain for supplies while fighting off hordes of swine flu zombies.
I'm buying studded leather and a muscle car in anticipation of having to raid the devastated ruins of Britain for supplies while fighting off hordes of swine flu zombies.
Sounds like a trip in to London most days.
metalangel
10-07-09, 08:42 AM
"You're the first uninfected person we've seen in six days."
http://www.ukfilminvestment.com/Pics/28-days-later-dark-run-small-718468.jpg
Paul the 6th
10-07-09, 08:47 AM
:| I'm gonna watch 28 days later tonight me thinks.. then I can really get in the mood for swine flu
my nephew has been swabbed for it they could've picked it up on a school activity holiday in wales but they are not sure
hope you manage to avoid it Messie
The government statistics for cases have been total rubbish for weeks/months, meaningless in fact.
In the Midlands, where there has been a concentration of infections, people were going to the doc with symptoms, but unless there was a known connection with a confirmed case they weren't tested for swine flu. Clearly many of these were very probably swine flu, so numbers were grossly under-reported and the spread was untracked.
Head in the sand stuff. Someone needs a good slapping.
Good job it isn't serious.
Use the NHS symptom checker...apparantly we should all phone 999!
http://www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk/Sat/MiniSAT/Topics/SwineFlu/CaringForSomeoneElse.aspx
Is itching in an embarrassing place a symptom of this :pig: flu? One of my co-workers might have it:rolleyes:
Sister school to the one i work at (My old school infact) has got it now, my Mum works there as well...
The school i work at has even bought in precautions with hand wash stuff and tissues, i keep on using the hand wash stuff, i love the smell of it :D
I cant keep coughing, perhaps i got it :o better not go to work any more :p
GeneticBubble
10-07-09, 10:40 PM
2 confirmed cases at my college which i thankfully recently finished, and one of the people in my street has it! its closing in on me i must make defences
Speedy Claire
11-07-09, 09:59 AM
Is itching in an embarrassing place a symptom of this :pig: flu? One of my co-workers might have it:rolleyes:
That could be worms Ed :D
We have 2 confirmed cases of swine flu in the area in which I work... is getting closer!
yorkie_chris
11-07-09, 02:52 PM
2 confirmed cases at my college which i thankfully recently finished, and one of the people in my street has it! its closing in on me i must make defences
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Kfrmxpi1Zgs/STxlGi29m_I/AAAAAAAAABY/_qlpX6gsKKo/s200/brain+gremlin.jpg
Put everything into canned food and shotguns!
Old Git
11-07-09, 04:28 PM
yep, agree it's better to get a mild dose, specially when otherwise fit and well.
But not now! Just one week til summer holidays
Why couldn't we have got in in September ;(
Better to get a mild dose !?????
That could be worms Ed :D
Or the early symptoms of a case of "Chalfonts" :lol:
Or the early symptoms of a case of "Chalfonts" :lol:
Male co-worker is forever scratching his penis. Can't work out if he realises what he's doing:confused:
Male co-worker is forever scratching his penis.
Could be a case of Betty Swollocks :lol:
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