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Swine Flu

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Dobies.
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Is getting really really bad at my college campus and the local high school. any one elses campuses or schools starting to get really infected?
Oct 26 2009 9:07PM
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Ben.
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ah. interesting.
Oct 27 2009 12:08AM
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OneLove_skier
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haha win
Oct 27 2009 12:11AM
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ThaLorax
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Oct 27 2009 12:16AM
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ThaLorax
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if you replace interesting with alarming and disgusting then i agree haha
Oct 27 2009 12:18AM
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Ben.
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that was implied.
Oct 27 2009 12:21AM
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ATLskier
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I go to georgia tech and tons of people had it at the beginning of the year, spread by parties, rush(shaking tons of hands), then more parties.

I haven't gotten it somehow despite playing drinking games and such with others who got it soon after said drinking games.

It's died down here. The entire hysteria behind this disease is not consistent with how tame it is. My friend's dad worked for the CDC(actually it's atlantaski's dad) and he explained to me that it can be bad it if mutates, which these viruses typically do.
Oct 27 2009 4:23AM
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unchyll
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theres been 2 confirmed deaths in my county so far, thats about it tho
Oct 27 2009 4:41AM
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Dobies.
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that sounds sketchy dude.
Oct 27 2009 12:24PM
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Kazabazua
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some girl in my class was telling everyone that she had it today, but was on antibiotics so she wasnt contagious anymore... at that moment everyone moved away a couple desks and left her to sit by herself
Oct 27 2009 1:31PM
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Kazabazua
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im just telling you what she said dude

Oct 27 2009 1:55PM
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Kazabazua
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fuck no, thats why everyone moved away from her, dumb bitch coming to college gonna get everyone sick
Oct 27 2009 2:10PM
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.AR6rider.
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I just got over my swine flu yay!  Most miserable six days that I can remember for a long time.  Unfortunately, now I may have pneumonia according to my doctor. 
Oct 27 2009 2:48PM
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rockymountainmilitia
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Get the vaccine!

Heres the run down.

The flu is almost certainly not going to kill you. It will probably kill 7 times as many people as the normal seasonal flu does each year.

The people most likely to be affected by H1N1 is anyone under the age of 65.

Why not old people?

Back in the late 40's early 50's a flu with similar markers to the H1N1 came around. Those who got that flu back then hold some antibodies and are less likely to get H1N1 this time around.

This isn't a pandemic because it is super lethal. Its a pandemic because almost the entire population is likely to get it because we have no antibodies to help us fend it off. What governments and doctors are warning people about is that once the flu hits a work place or school etc. It will most likely mushroom quickly and affect everyone who hasnt protected themselves against it. Primary example, lots of schools throughout the US.

What people are worried about is that potentially everything could hit a stand still for a week or so which would really fuck with the way things run. If everyone at the water treatmeant facility for your town or city gets sick in the same week, no one is there to make sure its running properly. Same goes for power, hospitals, businesses etc.

Getting the H1N1 vaccine is pretty much the only defense available to make sure that this doesnt happen. For this to work properly roughly 70% of the population has to get the vaccine. 

When people say "DONT GET THE VACCINE!" like we are setting ourselves up for some super virus to wipe us all out. This just isnt true. Virus's are always evolving. Even if we didnt get vaccines, virus's would still be evolving. We live in an age where we have never seen what lethal virus's or diseases can do to a population. Ask your grandparents what it was when there was no vaccines for polio or smallpox. People were dying of these things all the time. Vaccine's wiped out these virus's in 1st world countries.

Do yourself a favor and get this vaccine.

Oct 27 2009 3:25PM
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the_moderaper
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25% of my towns school system has it. thats about 3000 kids
Oct 27 2009 3:28PM
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rvca
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I had it this weekend. (live in CT for the record) It wasnt that bad just made me tired and unable to go out and party

Oct 27 2009 4:13PM
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lainekras
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i had it and lived!
Oct 27 2009 4:52PM
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ThaLorax
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What the hell are you talking about?  There's so many holes in your argument I don't even know where to start. 

-70% of people need to get hte vaccine? Bullshit.  70% of people need to get a better nights sleep, eat more healthily and exercise more.
-The system is going to come to a halt because of a flu if we don't get the vaccine?  Do you really believe that or did your daddy tell you that?
-The entire population isn't "likely" to get it, people with weak (or weakened) immune systems are.  Believe it or not, people have a very strong, natural way of fighting pathogens, a thing called an immune systems, which is actually weakened by the vaccine.  The immune system produces anti-bodies naturally by being exposed to it, not by being inoculated for it.
-Smallpox and Polio are completely different than the flu, which is every evolving.  I would ask my grandparents about it but they'd tell me the same thing.
-You said it yourself, "the flu is most certainly not going to kill you".  Trust your damn immune system.  You don't need a vaccine to fight a flu.  According to that Ron Paul video Wozzy posted, between January and April, over 13,000 people in the US died of the flu, that's 800 people per day, yet you never hear about that on the news once BUT you do hear when one person dies of swine flu.
-Why has Obama's own kids not gotten the vaccine yet?  Don't tell me it's because it wasn't available like the white house claims, he's the damn president, he could probably be in the middle of hte Sahara, be craving a fresh ham sandwich and get it within 10 minutes let get a flu shot for his kids that is readily available to the average citizen.


Don't bring in scare tactics and worst case scenarios to the argument.  Local and national systems aren't going to shut down because of a flu.  That's just ridiculous to think so.
Oct 27 2009 7:09PM
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Crack.
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FUCK this
Oct 27 2009 7:12PM
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garrets
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O shit dude that sucks soo bad +++vibes and k
Oct 27 2009 7:24PM
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Ben.
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i think he meant in order for it to be effective 70% of the population needs to get it to prevent the spread. granted bio is not my subject, but i seem to remember something similar in my micro class last year, group immunity or something like that its called. basically you immunize enough people and it prevents the spread.
Oct 27 2009 7:28PM
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ThaLorax
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I get that, but it's entirely useless if it doens't happen, which it wont'.
Oct 27 2009 7:32PM
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Ben.
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this is true.
Oct 27 2009 7:36PM
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Ben.
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not to mention everyone and their mother now thinks that the first sneeze or cough is H1N1
Oct 27 2009 7:46PM
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Crack.
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wrist hurting= swine flu.
headache= swine flu.
sneezing= swine flu.
burp= swine flu.
Oct 27 2009 7:48PM
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Ben.
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i farted. swine flu?
Oct 27 2009 7:51PM
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Crack.
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yup. call your doctor now before it's too late
Oct 27 2009 7:52PM
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Dobies.
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/thread
Oct 27 2009 10:02PM
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ThaLorax
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Fuck man, and to think, I always thought flatulence was normal. So if a girl farts does that mean she has double Swine Flue?
Oct 27 2009 10:02PM
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mellifluous
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my mom is insisting on getting me the vaccine. im petrified of needles so i will not get any shot that is not absolutely mandatory.. theres only one case of h1n1 in my school. hahaha
Oct 27 2009 10:06PM
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ESKIMOshred09
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I had it to its not that bad you just get a fever of like 104
Oct 27 2009 10:10PM
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Dobies.
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Oct 27 2009 10:19PM
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Ben.
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in fairness thats like 1 in a billion chance lol.
Oct 27 2009 10:21PM
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Dobies.
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yeah but still that shit is serious. wow.
Oct 27 2009 10:41PM
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gnarles.
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some days at are high school the hall are almost empty
Oct 27 2009 10:43PM
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Dobies.
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is this for h1n1 or the regular influenza virus?
Oct 27 2009 10:57PM
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ThaLorax
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please tell me you're not graduating anytime soon.
Oct 27 2009 10:57PM
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Hannah.
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i got the vaccine and i am fine
Oct 27 2009 11:10PM
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Hannah.
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this
Oct 27 2009 11:16PM
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ThaLorax
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what? MSG? whtat the fuck is monosodium glutimate doing in a vaccine haha.  Don't forget thimerosal though. I think it's in all of them except the nasal spray and is what causes those neurological diseases like the video posted above.
Oct 27 2009 11:18PM
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FUUUCK
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This is simply false.


The vaccine exposes your immune system to the virus in a deactivated form, that provokes your immune system into producing antibodies to fight the virus without getting you sick. This way when you do encounter the real thing your body can fight it off immediately, before it has a chance to infect your cells and reproduce.



Please get your facts straight.
Oct 27 2009 11:26PM
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Hannah.
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i am really not worried at all, if something happens i'll deal with it then but so far so good, i feel fine, that girl was just really unlucky.
Oct 27 2009 11:26PM
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FUUUCK
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This is simply false.


The vaccine exposes your immune system to the virus in a deactivated form, that provokes your immune system into producing antibodies to fight the virus without getting you sick. This way when you do encounter the real thing your body can fight it off immediately, before it has a chance to infect your cells and reproduce.



Please get your facts straight.
Oct 27 2009 11:26PM
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FUUUCK
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weird double post...
Oct 27 2009 11:27PM
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ThaLorax
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i only got one "fact" wrong there and it was due to poor wording. i should have replaced "not by getting inoculated" with "naturally, unlike being artificially inoculated"

and in a lot of cases, people do get sick.
Oct 27 2009 11:30PM
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ThaLorax
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lol, a poor choice of words
Oct 27 2009 11:32PM
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Hugh_Conway_jr
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+ karma
Oct 27 2009 11:32PM
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Hannah.
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yes they gave me an info sheet that explained what was in it and what could happen and made me sign a form
Oct 27 2009 11:39PM
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steevner
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Someone living in my residence (maybe 50ft away from me has it).
Needless to say, I don't spend any extra time around here anymore.
Oct 27 2009 11:43PM
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FUUUCK
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from the vaccine?
Oct 28 2009 12:23AM
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