Swine flu has hit the Denver area.
 

Looks like it is time to haul the hazmat suit out of the closet. :disgust

http://www.krdo.com/Global/story.asp?S=10294668

i am wearing a full body condom

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I don't understand the swine flu scare. I mean, 36,000 people died last year from regular, seasonal flu and nobody panicked about it. This is a different strain of the flu but it's no more dangerous than the standard flu.

People are quite worried here in Brazil too...

This is pretty scary shit :(

Yup It is :helpme

This post is useless without pics of you wearing it.

My kid had the flu this weekend... He slept, drank lots of fluids, puked a few times... and today is all better. But that's how the flu normally works.. and no we didn't take him to the doctor.

What is so scary about it? A little over 200 people in the country have had it. What exactly is the big deal that makes this newsworthy?

Because they are pointing the finger at Mexico.

Still find it a bit strange that everytime the US says that someone from the US got it in Mexico they say only that. They Visited Mexico.

My favorite one was the girl in Florida that visited Mexico in March and got swine flu at the end of April.

Nothing like a 40 day incubation period.

Good way to keep some money in the country... Keep the idiots from spending it all at Carlos and Charlies.

And, hi Honez... I just noticed that you were in Denver. I just moved my office from Boulder to Denver (lodo) April 1.

But I'll be jumping out of this open window in a few minutes to keep away from the Swine flu.

Cheers,

J

Interesting - Guess I won't come visit you in Denver Hone. LOL

LOL! I will run right over with my safety net for ya ;)
We really need to get a Denver area webmaster happy hour thing set up. There are a few of us here.

I am not so scared about catching this flu and dieing from it as I am just getting the damned flu in general, especially a nastier strain of it.

That's the thing . . . there doesn't seem to be any indication that this is a "nastier" strain.

I'm heading to MX next Monday!! :thumbsup

Why did I know that you would comment on those words in my post as soon as I typed them :1orglaugh

Cause you are so smart. Do you know how I am dressing up my HonePot?

Some local schools here are closing this week as well because 1 student had symptoms over the weekend. It's not even a confirmed case of anything yet. Guess they'll go in and wipe down the classrooms or something anyway.

World seasonal flu deaths, yearly average: 500,000
Confirmed 2009 Swine flu deaths as of this writing: 26

This seems more like a pandemic drill than anything else to me. Testing the quarantine response times, etc. Very weird.

Your Hone Pot has exquisite taste :thumbsup

Good
 

Maybe it'll take down the Rockies...kidding.

How did I not know you all were in Denver? I'm 8 mins from downtown. Say when!

omg! Someone say cigars? :) Let's plan on something when I get back from the LA show.

Simple answer is - we know those strains of influenza and it is very stable. With this one it is new and we do not know it yet, nor if it will remain stable.
We also have vaccines for the normal seasonal flu, we do not for this flu.

PS - people did panic a year or two ago with the regular flu when there was a shortage of vaccine available.

I do think the news agencies are slightly over blowing it. The WHO has it all pretty clear cut, and the whole thing makes sense yet of course anytime there is anything that could be or get bad - people get all retarded, and even more retarded if nothing super bad happens. (aka prevention, precautions, quarantines, etc. work).

more people die each day from AIDS or cancer. worry about that.

I'm ready!

See you in LA! I'm playing the Appaloosa monday night if you are going out. ICQ request sent

so many people die from the regular flu every year

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

Unrelated for the most part now isn't it, unless of course say you catch the flu and have a weakened immune system from Aids or your cancer treatment and say it kills you.

Maybe your right though and we should never concern ourselves with new strains of viruses.

And...

so what's the media going to clamp onto and blow out of proportion once this H1n1 (or as I like to call it "Hinny") flu blows over?

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

Go Nuggets!

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