How’s things going on your island next door to Oz?
Odd that Australia was smacked so hard, while the USA barely could tell the difference.
You said — Odd that Australia was smacked so hard, while the USA barely could tell the difference.
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LOL... wait until it’s our flu season too.... :-)
It's winter in the Southern Hemisphere.
> How’s things going on your island next door to Oz?
By “Oz” do you mean that large lump of land to the West of us that we call “West Island”?
Things in New Zealand are pretty good. Our new conservative government is settling in well and is making some useful changes. The weather is turning to Spring, which is also nice, after a long and chilly winter.
> Odd that Australia was smacked so hard, while the USA barely could tell the difference.
With the Swine Flu?
It is unusual that Australia has been hit so hard. Here in New Zealand we have only had a very few cases: we’re lucky because open ocean makes an excellent biosecurity fence, putting our Nation almost automatically into quarantine whenever one of these major diseases crops up.
Australia, too, has similar protection — lots of open ocean — so it is doubly odd that they have been hit so hard. I’m not sure why that is.
“Odd that Australia was smacked so hard, while the USA barely could tell the difference.”
Australia has had its fall, winter and now spring. While we were in our late spring and now summer. So they got hit first.
A ID doc told another doctor friend that with air travel and schools starting at all times and many schools with year round schools, he expects H1N1 to really start hitting with the first cold fall rains and cool chilly fall days and nights. The ID doc is very concerned for young children and school children from kindergarden into and past college years.
Honestly most Australian’s aren’t noticing it either.
It’s flu season here anyway - the only real difference is this year, people are getting ‘swine flu’ instead of some other variety.
I have it myself at the moment. It’s very mild. I wouldn’t have even gone to a doctor except I teach in a school and we have to deal with parental concerns about their kids health and what they are being exposed to. A few months ago, a teacher, or student, getting sick would have closed the school. Now, it’s just another case of flu. I should stay home a few days, and everybody should keep washing their hands.
(This is hard enough - getting 1000 14-17 year old boys to keep washing their hands!)