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.
/Survey: So... is swine flu affecting you/people you know yet?
27/10/2009 11:29:51 PM
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It is raging here
27/10/2009 11:42:41 PM
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Good on you for getting vaccinated.
27/10/2009 11:58:06 PM
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Get better soon!
27/10/2009 11:53:27 PM
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Re: /Survey: So... is swine flu affecting you/people you know yet?
28/10/2009 01:42:05 AM
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Re: /Survey: So... is swine flu affecting you/people you know yet?
28/10/2009 01:48:58 AM
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I almost feel like I'm coming down with something, but I'm not sure.
28/10/2009 03:26:26 AM
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Re: I almost feel like I'm coming down with something, but I'm not sure.
28/10/2009 08:40:17 AM
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I think I've had it. Symptoms seemed to match, anyway.
28/10/2009 05:31:46 AM
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Odd.
28/10/2009 08:27:42 AM
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A final note on my experience with the flu (since all the rest is here).
30/10/2009 12:15:40 AM
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I feel I am getting ill this week
28/10/2009 08:45:33 AM
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Drink tea, eat oranges.
28/10/2009 08:54:44 AM
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We've had 7 people die from it at my hospital.
28/10/2009 09:21:45 AM
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I suspect that working at a hospital gives you a rather biased sample of the populace. *NM*
29/10/2009 12:16:16 AM
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According to the CDC, on average 36,000 die from the flu each year in the US.
28/10/2009 01:53:35 PM
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Thank you, Greg. Finally, someone points out what it seems the general populace has forgotten!
30/10/2009 12:06:23 PM
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I think the worry is just that it's more contagious, which would be bad if a fiercer strain
30/10/2009 01:32:00 PM
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