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I think I've had it. Symptoms seemed to match, anyway. Aemon Send a noteboard - 28/10/2009 05:31:46 AM
1. Have you had swine flu? What was it like for you? (Symptoms, duration.)


As noted in my subject, yes. Or at least, I think so. I had a headache, fever, and general blahs for about four days, and then an irritating cough that stayed around for almost two weeks before going away. Maybe it wasn't swine flu, but when I've gotten the flu in the past it's typically been more gastrointestinal, while this time around it was more respiratory, which sounds like what I know of H1N1.

3. Is your local community being affected? What measures are they taking now?


Yeah, I go to a big state university, so it's all over the place. As for measures, the health center hands out masks to anyone who walks in the door (though I rarely see anyone wearing them), emails from professors saying to stay home if you're sick are flying all around, and at work (I work in a large office building), the HR people are putting giant bottles of hand sanitizer EVERYWHERE.

4. Have you ever been quarantined for any reason? What was it? How did you amuse yourself in the meantime?


Quarantined? Nope. I do my level best to stay away from people while I'm sick, though. Still, sometimes it can't be helped, and everyone I come in contact with will almost certainly be exposed by someone other than me anyway.

5. Are you nervous about swine flu, or do you still think it's been overblown?


Huuuuuuugely overblown. For starters, I'd rather cough than spew any day. For second-ers, all the data I've seen says the swine flu's death numbers are far less than the regular flu, which we've given up panicking over. The only real oddity I've seen is that the swine flu occasionally kills perfectly healthy people, though, again, deaths are extremely rare. It's just a media thing.
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