Swine flu

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Permalink Reply by Saz on April 26, 2009 at 6:03pm

Just take care of yourself and do as they say: wash your hands a lot, cover your mouth when you cough/sneeze, avoid contact with sick people, ect. It could be another scare like the bird flu.

I like the suggestions in the other thread to take homeopathics, too. I'd definitely do that.

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Permalink Reply by Jef on April 27, 2009 at 5:25am

What about keeping kids home from school? Should I even consider it? We live in a town with many people from Mexico, who may have gone there for spring break, but I don't know how many would have.

I don't even know who to listen to anymore, and myself doesn't know what she thinks....LOL too confusing

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Permalink Reply by dawg8k9 on April 27, 2009 at 11:00am

Okay, I hear ya.

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Permalink Reply by Jef on April 27, 2009 at 11:00am

You mean I shouldn't just sit on my computer all day listening to people who tell me I should be taking action instead of listening to people who might tell me something I don't want to hear, which would drive me to look for others to listen to who might tell me something I do want to hear, but ultimately don't want to take action on, because that would mean taking charge of my own life???! :)

thanks pete! I'll go take a look.

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Permalink Reply by Jef on April 27, 2009 at 11:01am

Hey, your link was not effective. I'll find another route. :0

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Permalink Reply by AwesomeUniverse!!! on April 26, 2009 at 6:23pm

I just read something on confirmed cases in NYC. (Also TX and CA) In densly populated places like NYC- it sounds scary. But compared to 500,000 people dying every year from other things it's nothing. Junk food kills more people than anything- and there isn't the least bit of hysteria surrounding IT!

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Permalink Reply by Saz on April 27, 2009 at 9:32pm

*raises hand** Hello there.

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Permalink Reply by Meditating on April 27, 2009 at 9:03pm

Rawtastic, While I can appreciate your comparison only as it relates to the total number of deaths, that isn't what has people alarmed about swine flu.

With swine flu there are two issues: First, it is contagious, unlike the twinkie your co-worker might eat; Second, there is an immediacy in the possible result of death, which is also missing when your co-worker eats a twinkie.

Suvine, if your theory that people die from their beliefs and not their physical condition is true, I think you and other like-minded believers could really put on a show walking out in front of tractor trailers, subway trains, of perhaps throwing yourself down underneath moving bushhogs to demonstrate this theory. Of course, your mangled bodies would not lead to death and, if you truly believed, you could instantly return to your pre-mutilated state.

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Permalink Reply by AwesomeUniverse!!! on April 27, 2009 at 9:23pm

HI Meditating. I wasn't trying to make a diresct analogy. I just can't help tlking about what junk food does to people! Actually there are between 250,000 and 500,000 deaths each year in the united states due to flu. That is a lot of people. Over 100,000 die from bugs they catch in hospitals. And if you add up all of the other deaths from things people catch like food poisoning it's probably close to a million people who wouldn't have to die if they stayed at home and weren't exposed to virulent situations and people.

What Suvine says makes sense to me because a lot of deaths are caused by heart attacks and strokes due to stress. A lot of people would also not die if they though differently, worked on being positive, and did positive things like meditate.

I don't think she means to walk out in traffic..

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Permalink Reply by Jasmine.green on April 26, 2009 at 6:30pm

Didn't we just read that a pharmaceutical company mixed up avian flu with human flu vaccine in Europe?

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Permalink Reply by Madhava on April 27, 2009 at 1:37pm

Baxter is now in control of handling the situation with the swine flu!!...Go figure!

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Permalink Reply by Jasmine.green on April 27, 2009 at 2:42pm

that is SICK

lots of people will be rich

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