Do you know anyone that has contracted H1N1?

[MSUSpartans]

Remember that 30,000+ people die every year from the flu in the U.S. People will die of H1N1. But right now there's no indication that your friends and neighbors are going to keeling over any time soon.

THANK YOU! You dont know how many people I've had to remind of that....
Almost all of the US H1N1 deaths are children, and 2/3's of those kids had some kind of pre-existing medial condition.

I can appreciate being prepared, especially if you have kids, but some people are flying off the deep end!

And in response to the question, My g/f is a middle school teacher and a student at her school got it, but no evacuations or anything.

 

[RobFunk]

THANK YOU! You dont know how many people I've had to remind of that....
Almost all of the US H1N1 deaths are children, and 2/3's of those kids had some kind of pre-existing medial condition.

I can appreciate being prepared, especially if you have kids, but some people are flying off the deep end!

And in response to the question, My g/f is a middle school teacher and a student at her school got it, but no evacuations or anything.

At least H1N1 has more legitimacy to it than the "West Nile virus" scare.

 

[JOH]

girlfriend's sister's boyfriend has it.

thank you Simone.

 

[slapshot]

This Pandemic didn’t get this much coverage

Anyone remember how long it took Obama to do something

 

[busterhyman]

This Pandemic didn’t get this much coverage

Anyone remember how long it took Obama to do something

well the msm is the right arm of the...demonrat party

 

[RenoChazz]

This Pandemic didn’t get this much coverage

Anyone remember how long it took Obama to do something

Not even close to the coverage. And that's why people are panicking, people are thinking this is worse because of the way its being reported. People are thinking this is going to kill over a million world wide. When it doesn't tho people are going to wake up to the media, and when something really does happen we wont believe them.

 

[Michelangelo]

I got H1N1 and was fine 2 days later. At long as you're healthy, you have nothing to worry about. H1N1 is just another strain of the flu. It causes the most problems for children and the elderly. This is due to their weaker immune system. If you get it, take a few days off, drink lots of fluids, eat healthy, and get lots of rest. For everyone's sake though, please stay away from people if you do get it. It's HIGHLY contagious.

Now this is how corona should have been handled. There should have been no panic and no closures.

THe citizenry would be a lot less panicky and the markets would have been a lot less panicky.

 

[Michelangelo]

Lots of speculation on this, but minimal science unfortunately.

The reality is that certain strains do seem to preferentially impact young, otherwise healthy people. 1918 is the classic example, but there have been others. None, of course, have been anything on the scale of the Spanish Flu.

The fear this year was that H1N1 would operate similarly, especially given minimal immunity in human populations (immunologically it's pretty new). The speed that it swept through Mexico heightened those fears, but we should have realized early on that the relatively few deaths signalled that H1N1 clinically looks like a "normal" influenza A.

I've seen probably 20 cases in the last two months. None have been anything special.

Remember that 30,000+ people die every year from the flu in the U.S. People will die of H1N1. But right now there's no indication that your friends and neighbors are going to keeling over any time soon.

Another sensible post for the H1N1 virus. The same strategy should have been applied to corona. And don't forget that kids and the healthy seem (by statistical evidence) to be very, very low risk.