Posted on 10/25/2009 7:52:01 AM PDT by Saije
Glenn Dance does not have swine flu. But when he took the family cat to the veterinarian last week, he was greeted in the parking lot by workers in surgical masks. They knew that his wife and daughter had the flu and told Dance that he was not allowed inside.
Dance, who lives in Great Falls, obliged. Then he went along when he was asked to don rubber gloves to sign his pet's paperwork. And again when they said to keep the pen -- and wait in his pickup -- as Cleo was whisked away for a 90-minute work-up.
"It was like a scene from 'E.T.'," he decided -- except that it was a scene from the strange times of swine flu.
With flu cases and anxiety surging across the region and with President Obama declaring the H1N1 flu a national emergency, the usual drumbeat of family life has been infused with a mix of the scary, the odd, the humorous and the surreal.
Parties and play dates have been canceled. Children have been sent home from school. Flu vaccine has seemed as hard to get as sold-out concert tickets, only more frightening to miss out on. Families say coming down with swine flu can feel a little like being visited by the plague.
Lisa Cuomo, 39, who is eight months pregnant, had her swine flu scare Oct. 6 when her 6-year-old son landed in the emergency room with a high fever. Afterward, she developed flu symptoms, too, and posted on Facebook: "It's H1N1 -- Stay away from us!"
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Avian flu is much more lethal - my contacts in local health depts say that Swine flu is no more dangerous than normal seasonal flu.
Of course, the Dems like cherrypicking and fabricating a few “I met a mother” stories to rachet up the histeria. All part of the neverending campaigning.
Whip up the public into a frenzy. Obama scare to the rescue.
Where is all that vaccine??? I see the poor are getting cared for first. Rats need their votes.
The confusion is rampant, and also intended, IMO.
Two months ago my son’s little girl was home with the “swine” flu, as were more than 30% of the students in her elementary school. Of course, his whole house was in a hand-washing panic. But the families were being told by County health officials that “the flu isn’t serious for kids, don’t worry, the kids are fine.”
Well, that certainly contradicts what the CD has been braying about lately, loudly and often. “Small children are the hardest hit”.
Well........which is it? There’s something very specious about this whole “flu” thing.
BTW, I don’t think any of the kids actually had “swine flu”.........another intentional deception to keep us fearful and confused.
Love the graphic! Looks like there wasn’t even any need to put the pig nose on Waxman.......he comes equipped with the real thing.
Heheheh
“...Swine flu is no more dangerous than normal seasonal flu.”
CORRECT! Last Spring, I asked one of the top Emergency Medicine doctors in the country (the dean of the medical school at Wake Forrest), what he knew about the “swine flu” and whether the hysteria was at all justified.
His response “It’s just plain Flu; no more dangerous than the typical flu every year. The difference is there is no herd immunity, so it can spread throughout the population quicker.”
Are the first daughters vaccinated now?
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Love your tage line.
Got it from Drudge yesterday.
“...Swine flu is no more dangerous than normal seasonal flu.”
The government says whatever it needs to say to “progress” their agenda and to protect Obama from CDC’s incompetence.
They have no basis of medical data to call the flu not dagerous or dangerous as they stopped collecting data of incidence in July. So the flu is whatever they say it is to protect Obama from moment to moment.
Obama’s CDC does not have enough vaccine for a serious flu and he gave away 10% to the UN of what little he had. It has to be called “mild” and they even fabricated regular flu deaths at 36,000 which is a big fat lie. The deaths caused by regular is much less.
People think Obama has reason to overplay the danger of this flu but the opposite is true. It does no good for Obama to be caught in a Katrina trap with a shortage of vaccine and with the decision to keep public schools open in light of a dangerous disease. He also gave us a shortage of tamiflu by giving away our emergency supply to Mexico.
His emergency proclaimation has to do with controlling the panicky public wanting a vaccine that does not exist because Obama did not bother to prepare for the possibility of the flu coming back more dangerous in this second wave. Europe and Canada did prepare for that possibility and have vaccine available for everyone who wants it in their countries.
Life is cheap to Marxists and Obama and his Czars openly talk about killing people through shortages of medical care - rationing.
Idiotic.
It’s not even slightly understandable. It’s a normal flu, people need to get over the hype and stop acting like retarded hypochondriacs.
The problem is that there are some people who are legitimately scared. No, your average, healthy adult has nothing to worry about. However, for the people with ‘underlying health conditions’, this is way scarier than the seasonal flu because with the seasonal flu you can get vaccinated and go on with your life, but with the swine flu there’s no vaccine they can take yet so they can’t protect themselves and the virus also spreads a lot faster. So, if there’s an outbreak, paranoia is completely understandable for those at ‘high risk’.
For the rest of the population who’s perfectly healthy and doesn’t have a tiny infant or anything like that to worry about, they really should get over this.
The only people legitimately scared are the people in such poor health that the need to be scared EVERY flu season. Everybody else is acting like an idiot, and we’ve got the vast quantity of Purrell bottles around work to show there’s WAY too many people acting like idiots.
I believe that a decreased consumption of pork products reinforces your premise.
Well, that was sort of my point, the people who need to be scared every flu season can almost all get vaccinated every flu season - except they can’t for the swine flu, and that’s what makes them more scared than usual. That said, as someone who’s probably only not in the hospital cause she got Tamiflu within a couple hours of starting the fever, yeah, I was scared and I’m still a bit nervous...
I know what you mean about the hand sanitiser thing. Considering some of the atrocious hygiene I’ve seen apparently clean, intelligent people exhibit (ie, touch a public surface like an escalator railing and not wash their hands before eating finger food) it’s not a bad idea in general, but I find it both ridiculous and a little hilarious that people are making such haphazard attempts and then only to avoid a specific strain of flu.
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