So this whole swine flu malarky
Your thoughts please? Are you scared, indifferent or a little troubled?

I'm not greatly concerned, but then before I left my place of work, I procured a box of tamiflu vaccines.
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 15:24, 35 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Not fussed in the slightest
I'll start to care a little when the dead number 500+ within a week.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 15:27, Reply)

I'm not worried about swine flu
Ocelot Herpes on the other hand, well, that's another story.
(Bert's other profile wants to wear your balls on a necklace, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 15:29, Reply)

I'm a bit pissed off for my mum and sister who booked a holiday to Mexico but....
other than that I'm indifferent.

If I get swine flu it means a week off work and I lose half a stone.

No biggie.
( girlinthehole, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 15:29, Reply)

I'm indifferent
my sources tell me no one has died from it outside mexico and that so far it's not too bad.

if it looks to be getting worse it'll get dealt with. it's like SARS and bird flu again.

someone: "cough cough"
media: "OH MY FUCKING GOD WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!"
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 15:30, Reply)

I'm a little concerned
about the way it's targeting people. it's not targeting very young people and very old people and people who are already sick - it's targeting people who are healthy and strong (in our general age bracket) whose immune systems are strong.
(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 28 Apr 2009, 15:30, Reply)

the only reason the Mexicans died
was because over there they use sombreros donkeys to ward off diseases, and doctors like GI José
(Bert's other profile wants to wear your balls on a necklace, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 15:32, Reply)

Too many people anyway,
Things like this are a blessing in disguise, if indeed it goes start to go pandemic.
( Cawl, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 15:33, Reply)

Indifferent
we've had all the scares before, nowt happened.

Although I did get bird flu once. Found myself unable to talk about anything but soap operas, coupled with a handbag obsession and the need to sit down for a piss.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 28 Apr 2009, 15:34, Reply)

Those Mexicans need to man up
It's only a bit of flu, they just need to lie on the sofa and watch GMTV for a couple of days.
(username1, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 15:35, Reply)

Not bothered
I'll start to worry when things get a lot worse than they are now.
(Herr Doktor Lemminge Is bored, so cheer me up!, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 15:36, Reply)

The only thing annoying me about 'swine flu'
is that the chemist has ran out of Lempsip.

All the little piggies have bought it :0)
( SpikeyPickle wishes he was mabazaritchie, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 15:38, Reply)

I'm saving all my panic
for the inevitable zombie invasion
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 15:38, Reply)

I say bring on the Zombie apocalypse.
I've got my sword and 300 tins of "Heinz Breakfast".
( Cawl, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 15:42, Reply)

I just heard on the radio
that a member of the company my friend has just got a job at, has prevented an employee from coming to work through fear of spreading it through the office after returning from mexico.
(Ethelred is watching cheese grow, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 15:43, Reply)

Hmm
Maybe if I pretend I am off to Mexico this weekend I can get some time off work...
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 15:45, Reply)

Kaol is right
there are too many people as it is.

and anyway, I've played the game Pandemic several times and try as I might I can't kill everyone on the planet, so we don't have to worry too much
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 15:46, Reply)

Vip you suck
I have managed to kill everyone a couple of times

*evil laugh*
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 15:46, Reply)

I killed everyone.
With my parasite.
That was hard work, and took a long, long time.
( Cawl, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 15:47, Reply)

damnit
I always get stuck with the madagascans
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 15:48, Reply)

Mutations.
I am worried that Swine Fever is going to join forces with Mad Cow and Avian Bird Flu and come up with something new like a Vexed Kitten Plague.

As ever, I blame immigrants and lack of good old fashioned family values for the whole thing.
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 15:48, Reply)

If there is the End of Days upon us
what would you do in your last few days?
(Ethelred is watching cheese grow, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 15:48, Reply)

Make it a new thread Ethel :p

( Cawl, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 15:50, Reply)

I'm only worried that it might fuse with bird flu
Then we'll be in trouble.
(MrOli is ugly, but in the morning you will be sober, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 15:50, Reply)

I'm more worried about zombies
when the BBC reports that there is no longer any room in hell and the dead are walking the earth, then it's brown trouser time for me.
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 15:52, Reply)

I care not a jot
One of my staff's wives takes every single one of these ridiculous scares utterly seriously - I think they'll be living off the tinned food she stockpiled after one of them (I think perhaps it was anthrax, perhaps?) for years.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 15:53, Reply)

Mr Oli
When pigs fly, perhaps?
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 16:14, Reply)

Hooray!

(MrOli is ugly, but in the morning you will be sober, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 17:08, Reply)

About as serious as SARS
Little bored with swine flu here. Here being Toronto, which was shunned by the rest of the world during the SARS ``crisis'' a few years back. At least a few people not in the epi-centre died in the SARS thing. Has anyone outside of Mexico shuffled off this mortal coil yet because of the swine flu? Not to say they've got a shit medical system there, but they've got a shit medical system there. And shit air quality.
Had to talk Mrs. Tuqueboy down off a cliff when Tuque Jr (19 months) got ``flu-like symptoms'' last night. He's fine this morning.
(tuqueboy has been in a medically -induced coma since, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 17:37, Reply)

Fun for the whole family
twitter.com/cdcemergency

Ooh, and a continually updated map.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 17:47, Reply)

Not worried in the slightest.
Just slightly irritated that I'm not further along in my educational career so I could study it properly, and do fun experiments with it.
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 18:39, Reply)

The things to look out for
are coming out in rashers and feeling unweeeeeeeeeel.



With thanks to RBF esquire from /links and DiTs from here.

I will now go away and think up my own pork related illness gags.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 18:41, Reply)

I diagnose...
...a good meat injection from a pork sword.
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 18:45, Reply)

Not worried about dying from it. However I have had the proper flu before, not a savage head cold like many typical flu-claiming wankers, but the real deal (different strains have different intensities of course). And while I didn't die I wished I could. Trust me, anyone who has genuinely had the flu will tell you the same thing - its really horrible. Forget all this 'watch tv' stuff. There is not a single thing that will make you feel like anything except dying.

That said, Tamiflu did make a difference. Problem was I was too ill to go to the doctor until about 4 days into the illness so chances are I was getting better naturally anyway. And getting to the doctor was one of the hardest things I have ever done in my life, both physically and mentally. Thank god for people close to you to help you in your time of need.

Flu might not kill you, but it will guarantee you one of the worst weeks of your life.

note: swine flu might be more or less intense than other flu strains... who knows.
( enoughblueskyforsailorstrousers, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 21:28, Reply)

I work in a pharmacy
(so obviously I will catch it from a customer who comes in for Lemsip and breathes all over me, or sneezes on their grubby money before pressing it into my unsuspecting hand, and then I will infect the rest of the customers before I die and then I will be at the epicentre of an outbreak which will eventually kill off the human race, and I shall feel terribly responsible and guilty)

no, but what I was about to say is, our training on colds and flu says "if a customer comes in asking for something for flu, they haven't got flu".
( warmfuzzies Isn't here, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 23:28, Reply)

I'd be able to take it more seriously
if I weren't old enough to remember the whole 1976 swine flu debacle under President Gerald Ford in the U.S. I think more people ended up getting sick and dying from the shots to prevent the flu, than from the flu itself.
( Shiksa, Wed 29 Apr 2009, 3:18, Reply)