<p>Stop feeding the ■■■■■■ that are the news networks. Shut off your idiot box please if you can’t think for yourself.</p>
<p>Someone said that its “much worse than a light cold”. WELL NO S#%@!. So is the regular flu! I had influenza two years ago and I felt the sickest I’ve ever been for seven days. The flu is not the common cold, obviously. But it’s not going to kill you unless you’re a baby or extremely old and sickly.</p>
<p>Secondly, someone said that people don’t have antibodies for this “special flu.”</p>
<p>Guess what? No one has antibodies for the normal flu, either. If we did, no one would ever get the flu, ever. Why do you think there is a different flu shot every year? Because the strain keeps changing, much like the rhino virus (common cold). And frankly, the flu shot has not been proven conclusively to increase your protection. The influenza strands are numerous and changing. Getting the flu shot is more of just like keeping your fingers crossed that you won’t get influenza this year (or the specific kind the shot is protecting against.)</p>
<p>Well, now I am sick too. Congested chest and sore throat, not sure if I have a fever. Highly doubt it’s swine flu but not happy. If I am not better in five days I am not allowed to move in on time.</p>
<p>I am definately worried about my oldest, since she fits the criteria of risks ( asthma ) So do I , in terms of asthma , but I have not had a flu shot in years and not been sick with a flu either…maybe I am being a worrywort , but I want both of my college girls to get the vaccine</p>
<p>The difference is - it’s highly contagious. That is really the problem - it’s an aggressive virus that is very contagious. In about five days at KU - they had 300 cases.</p>
<p>Since I last checked, UA has had 21 cases of students exhibiting “flu-like symptoms.” I personally know a few people who said they had H1N1 and did not go to the doctor to get it confirmed. Of course, some of these unreported cases were not actually the flu. I spoke to a doctor at the student health center, and she said that the flu is really no worse than any other flu, but the media is hyping it up and making it a bigger deal than it actually is.</p>
<p>I don’t think I can get swine flu (it should be the same virus as in May), as I’ve probably already been infected. They closed down an elementary school near me for 2 days, and then reopened it because they couldn’t keep it closed for long enough. And we definitely have older siblings of some of the kids who were known to have it going to my HS. And I was mildly sick a short while after that. Maybe I can though, but still, shouldn’t be too bad.</p>
<p>UGH. This thing spreads because of stupidity. </p>
<p>I was in the dining hall with my friend and there were 50 other open tables, including one behind us. A group of girls sat at the end of the table and so there were only two seats left at the table. These two girls decide they are going to sit there, forcing me to move over, for no reason at all. They did not know us or the other group. Then one of the girls sitting right next to me complains that she has a fever, her body aches and she is really tired and the health place told her to stay in her room.</p>
<p>What. The. Hell.</p>
<p>I never thought I would get swine flu or any flu until a potentially infected person was sitting an inch away from me.</p>
<p>I’m far more frightened of the vaccine than I am of the flu. No vaccine is without risks and a new vaccine is even riskier than an established one.</p>
<p>The good news is that I think we’ve already had Swine Flu back in May. I’m hoping that we will test positive for having had it, should the vaccine go from “suggested” to “mandatory”.</p>