Swine Flu: Is it adding to your Pre-existing anxieties?

Blue Teardrops

Blue Teardrops

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It is mine. Swine flu is going around on my campus, and a girl in my class was even out today with it as announced by my professor. That's the closest I've been to swine flu so far. And I heard that the CDC is predicting that 90,000 could die from the flu this fall, mainly the young, and we'll be short on vaccines until the end of October, which leaves a two month stretch for more people to get Swine Flu before universal access to vaccinations.

All this only adds anxiety on top of anxiety. I don't go around worrying about it all day or anything, but it still remains in the back of my mind and makes me even more germophobic than I already am.
 
Ashiene

Ashiene

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My SA peaked during the SARS outbreak period in 2003. Before that, I was mostly shy, but never feared going out. After SARS, when we had a quarantine period, I began to fear people and stepping out of the home because I thought everyone was dirty and were going to spread the sickness to me.
 
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timidhorse

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I know in my mother's class almost the entire class was sick with the flu. My mother was sick and then my brother became sick, but for some reason I haven't caught it. I thought depression weakens your immune system, I guess not for me.
 
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Kinetik

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Swine flu is very similar to regular flu (it's just a different strain) and has a mortality rate less than it. Even if you do end up becoming infected, you're only at risk of any serious complications if you're very young, very old, or have a compromised immune system. You have more chance of dying in a car crash on your way to campus than you do of dying from swine flu.
 
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Blue Teardrops

Blue Teardrops

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@Kinetik - I agree, I know I'm overreacting about this. But I studied viruses as part of my major and whoa! they scare the hell out of me, though they are highly fascinating. At least this particular flu is not so dangerous....yet. I'm just waiting for it to mutate into something really bad. I'm paranoid about diseases though and all the hype surrounding this particular one.
 
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thor01

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Yep true haha.
The media is makes it out to be something its not, or at least not so far. Just like with bird flu. Maybe partly to make people feel the need to get the vaccine, Which the pharmaceutical companies make billions out of, and might not have a good effect on you're immune system, some people say. I wouldn't even be surprised if some of the outbreaks of things are caused on purpose.
 
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Imhotep

Imhotep

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I think I have it RIGHT NOW. I've been off work this week. I started coming down with something last Thursday and I've been off my feet since Friday night. I've had all the major symptoms, I feel like sh*t, but I think I'm going to live ::p:.

I don't think it can be passed on via online forums, though *cough* *cough* .
 
sabbath

sabbath

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squeal like a pig!

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Ashiene

Ashiene

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Funny how scientists and researchers try to find a cure or a vaccine to fight viruses and diseases yet they don't realise that the human species is the greatest virus on the planet. We behave like viruses in every way.

You know how we get a fever sometimes when we get sick? Mother Earth is sick because we are killing her with our parasitic lifestyles, and the Global Warming we are experience is like a fever that Mother Earth is suffering from.
 
Ashiene

Ashiene

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PunkRotten said:
I agree. I actually forgot about the whole thing. More people die each year form other things, so many other things you can die from swine flu. Around 40,000 people die each year from regular flu. What about all the other diseases? Swine flu is a joke really.
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It says 500,000 people die from regular flu each year.
 
Nicholas

Nicholas

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I don't give a damn, seriously.
They just said it on TV, it's not dangerous at all, it's like all the others. The only difference is it's new, so no one's body is ready for this virus, and so the problem is that a lot of people will get sick, too many probably, and so they need enough vaccine to ensure not too many people will get sick. You know, 50% of the workers all at home because they're sick is not a good thing for the economy. Only that. But it's not that it's "dangerous".
And since I don't have a job, who the hell cares, I can get sick, LOL :D
 
Redzer

Redzer

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Nicholas said:
The only difference is it's new,
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does that not make people think that it might be manufactured? i mean how does a virus just appear from nowhere? all other viruses have some background or they mutate but this one comes right in the middle of the recession? i tell ya people look into it futher.... and the plot thickens :eek:
 
Lea

Lea

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People deserve it for what they do to animals, and still it´s only mild. As for me, I am not afraid, couldn´t care less. After all it´s not even allways deadly.
 
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