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| OH CRAP I GOT SWINE FLU | |
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| Topic Started: Apr 29 2009, 05:37 PM (531 Views) | |
| Telosan | Apr 30 2009, 02:03 PM Post #26 |
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Ok, I've returned from a hilarious day of school. 30 minutes before school starts, I go to the library and sit on the computer to catch up on my homework. Allergy season, so I manage to get off a few convincing coughs. Librarian asks me if I feel ok after the second cough, 5 minutes apart. Period 1-4: sneeze/cough occaisionally, a tiny bit louder than need be. 2/4 teachers sent me to the nurse regardless of what I said. 3rd teacher asked me if I was ok. 4th teacher was forced to send me down to the nurse after the "distruption" I caused. The "distruption" being, I actually had to sneeze from my seasonal allergies and sneezed 3 times in a row. Everyone in a 10 foot radius got up and moved to the other side of the classroom. Lunchtime: Always loud, can barely hear yourself think. I sneeze and knock over someone's books. Instead of getting pissed at me like they usually would, they stare at me, pick up their books and run/walk 3 tables away. Had an entire table to myself, with the exception of 2-3 people at the other end who dared get close. Period 6-7: Not much happened. Forgot to do anything. :dry: Period 8: Teacher talks about the Swine Flu and why it is deadly. Goes into crap about how it eats out your innards. I say it's not deadly at all, and that everyone needs to grow up and get over it. Worst. Idea. Ever. Seconds later, I have 23 students SCREAMING at me about how I have no freaking clue what I'm talking about. How I've been coughing and sneezing all day and probably infected the whole school. How insensitive I am about how many people it's killed so far, including the dozens of people in NYC (Riiiiiiiiight). The one-sided debate goes on and on because they won't shut up to let me speak. Period 9: Students that arrived before I did that had been in my previous class told the teacher how I was likely sick with the swine flu. I arrive, and the teacher calls me over. Do I feel okay? Do I want to go to the nurse? Etc, as a caring teacher should do. First 15 minutes I cough/sneeze occaisionally. The students aren't paying attention to the teacher and so the teacher decides I should go to the nurse. Period 10-12: Nurse refuses to let me go to class because of the number of teachers that sent me down. Based on school policy, I should be sent home and only be allowed back with a doctor's note. I refuse to go home and sit doing homework and playing on my phone till the dismissal bell rings. While this all may seem unlikely to many of you, there is a certain thing about my town that makes it slightly different. I live in a small NJ town that has a ferry in the downtown portion. The ferry is two way, straight to NYC and back. Much of the population works in the city. While it's still no excuse for the hysteria, it explains a bit. |
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| Ulgania | Apr 30 2009, 03:41 PM Post #27 |
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You might've become my favorite person ever. |
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| Telosan | Apr 30 2009, 03:47 PM Post #28 |
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:D Well it's not my fault it's so much fun to take advantage of the rampant stupidity that represents the bulk of modern civilization. |
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| Quaon | Apr 30 2009, 06:44 PM Post #29 |
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Just a guess based on my shaky grasp of New Jersey geography - Hoboken? New Jersey sucks, by the way. Philadelphia for the win. |
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| Porcu | Apr 30 2009, 07:00 PM Post #30 |
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"Work is the curse of the drinking classes."
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I prefer the good ol' Midwest, thank you very much :P |
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| A.Q. | Apr 30 2009, 07:06 PM Post #31 |
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Posted Image Dirty South represent. |
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| Telosan | Apr 30 2009, 07:57 PM Post #32 |
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I could never leave the coast. Spent my life here, even on vacations I was always on within a 40 minutes drive of the Atlantic. With one exception... Come to think of it, I did leave the Atlantic. Last summer in August I was in Puerto Vallarta or something I can't spell, it was on the west coast...of Mexico. Swine Flu! AHHH! I'm around the Sandy Hook area. It's alot smaller than it looks on the map, and it looks small to begin with. The name of my town isn't even listed on any map I've found, except 1 county map from 1912. |
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| Sedulius | May 1 2009, 03:03 AM Post #33 |
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If my flu is swine flu, I'm not dead yet and it doesn't feel any different, so meh. From what I've seen though I'm not spreading it much, so I think it's just normal flu. Bloody sucks though. I hate flu. Not so funny when you actually have it, though it is fun going around joking that I do have swine flu and telling everyone I'm going to infect them with it. I'm going to feel really bad if I do have swine flu, because I'll probably have single-handedly caused an epidemic. |
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| New Harumf | May 1 2009, 08:33 AM Post #34 |
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1. Have fallen in love with Michigan, so, Upper Midwest rules. 2. Been to Philadelphia, and New Jersey. I'll take New Jersey any day! 3. Props to T for causing a 1 man panic in NJ! Very cool. 4. Sud, if you have N1H1A (quit blaming pigs) then you should be quarantined. Quit wandering about. 5. I get a flu shot every year, so I might be better protected than others. 6. Saw the Dr. yesterday about my sore throat. It's not streph. They took a culture and will let me know. |
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| Tristan da Cunha | May 1 2009, 12:19 PM Post #35 |
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Ohio rules. I'd be outside my comfort zone if I don't live within a mile or two of a corn field or pile of manure. I think I'm the first Asian hick. From watching TV shows like "Happy Days", "That 70s Show," and "Freaks and Geeks", The Upper Midwest looks pretty cool too though. |
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| New Harumf | May 1 2009, 01:13 PM Post #36 |
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I think there are 900,000,000 Asian hicks in China alone! :lol: :lol: |
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| Ulgania | May 1 2009, 01:29 PM Post #37 |
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So um, we can't call it Swine Flu anymore... or can we? http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h8sThI-QMUcN3xbVJ2ccYo2K2HRgD97TIH1G0 Also has anyone else gotten that stupid Obama text about it? Ugh. |
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| lebowski2123 | May 1 2009, 01:37 PM Post #38 |
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Egypt was slaughtering all of its pigs, that was a major reason for the name change I believe. Leave it to those crazy egyptians :lol: |
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| Telosan | May 1 2009, 02:01 PM Post #39 |
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I found some interesting numbers. The two flu strains I'm talking about are the common, yearly strain and, of course, H1N1. "Typically, in a year's normal two flu seasons (one per hemisphere), there are between 3 and 5,000,000 cases of severe illness and up to 500,000 deaths worldwide, which by some definitions is a yearly influenza epidemic." The last outbreak of H1N1 was in 1918 and called the "Spanish Flu". This is the last time it was seen as a MASSIVE outbreak, other than sporadic appearances. It is on the heels of WW1, so it is speculated that living in trenches and close contact with fellow troops jumpstarted the pandemic. "Older estimates say it killed 40–50 million people, while current estimates say 50 million to 100 million people worldwide were killed." "As many as 17,000,000 died in India, about 5% of India's population at the time. In Japan, 23,000,000 were affected, and 390,000 died. In the U.S., about 28% of the population suffered, and 500,000 to 675,000 died. In Britain as many as 250,000 died; in France more than 400,000. In Canada approximately 50,000 died. This totals to about 18,690,000 deaths." Today's 2009 HORRIFYING outbreak has the following, global numbers. "Confirmed Cases: 539" "Suspected Cases: 3,000+" "Deaths: 13" Mexico/US statistics comparison. "Mexico's Confirmed Cases: 312" "US's Confirmed Cases: 114" "Mexico's Suspected Cases: 2,016" "US's Suspected Cases: 213" "Mexico's Deaths: 12" "US's Deaths: 1" The yearly flu takes 500,000 lives, and no one cares. H1N1, which hasn't been seen in just under a century, takes just 13 lives, and the world is in panic-driven hysteria. |
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| Tristan da Cunha | May 1 2009, 02:45 PM Post #40 |
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Heh good point. |
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| Porcu | May 1 2009, 03:10 PM Post #41 |
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"Work is the curse of the drinking classes."
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I hope that doesn't surprise you :lol: Edited by Porcu, May 1 2009, 05:58 PM.
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| New Harumf | May 1 2009, 04:44 PM Post #42 |
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My mother was born in 1918, so I am hoping her survival in Chicago might have passed on some imunity to me, so, LET THE PANDEMIC BEGIN! :evil: |
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