Clicky Poll: Thoughts on THE FLU

Soyager · October 2009

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pixy_stix · October 2009

All I know is that I came down with H1N1 without being around *anyone* who was sick. I really don't know how I got it.

hamilton.ja · October 2009

I clicked other... I do believe that this year's flu season is worse because of h1n1. No other time have I seen a flu season be this bad, this early. However, I also believe that it is being really over-hyped in the media. For the vast majority of people it is just like getting the flu. It sucks but it won't kill you or land you in the hospital. For certain groups it is much worse, yes, but unless you're in those groups the panic is not where it should be. Unless you panic like this every year in February over the seasonal flu people should probably calm down.

Also, about the 10% of kids out in your school... even if they're not that sick I'm glad they are out. I'd rather a kid stay home a couple days with a cold that *could* be h1n1 but they're not sure than come in and get more people sick... There are genuinely people who will get very sick if they get h1n1, or the seasonal flu, and it isn't fair to them that people send their sick kids to school and expose a bigger population.

Hippinski · October 2009

I'm a combo of two answers. I do think that H1N1 is a scary addition to the regular flu season but I also think the media has gone ape$hit crazy.

Dobie_Mama · October 2009

hamilton.ja:

Also, about the 10% of kids out in your school... even if they're not that sick I'm glad they are out. I'd rather a kid stay home a couple days with a cold that *could* be h1n1 but they're not sure than come in and get more people sick... There are genuinely people who will get very sick if they get h1n1, or the seasonal flu, and it isn't fair to them that people send their sick kids to school and expose a bigger population.

Ditto. I'm on our schools H1N1 committee and you can basically sum up our response plan by saying: "If you have a fever, stay home! If you come to school/work with a fever we're going to send your butt home anyway, so just stay home!"

I haven't had H1N1 (knock on wood) so I can't say how severe it is in relation to the seasonal flu first hand, but I do know that it seems to be spreading much faster/easier than the seasonal flu. I had the seasonal flu last year and no one else in my building had it. But when one person on campus gets H1N1 it seems to wipe out the whole department. That's pretty crippling just from an operational standpoint.

mh2t · October 2009

This drives me nuts. I wish more news outlets were reporting the CBS investigation that was just completed, which revealed that 98 to 99 percent of cases diagnosed as swine flu were actually found NOT to be swine flu once the confirmatory lab tests were done. The lab tests are the ONLY way to confirm that a person has swine flu. You can read about the investigation here. There is no freaking epidemic!

/rant

babyluv617 · October 2009

The school that I taught at last year had 215/approx 600 students out for most of last week!!! It's a little better this week but still high 100s.

eta - They are not all h1n1, obviously, but that's still more than ever.

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