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They say it is mild, and get help if you get really sick, are very young, or very old. Nothing there about an eminent crisis. BTW for any other steps 2% of the population or about 4 million have to have it, right now .000000000000000000001% of teh population is infected.
They say it is mild, and get help if you get really sick, are very young, or very old. Nothing there about an eminent crisis. BTW for any other steps 2% of the population or about 4 million have to have it, right now .000000000000000000001% of teh population is infected.
I am in the "this is extremely unlikely to have any impact on Bonnaroo" camp. Public health officials are preparing for extreme possibilities, as they should, but don't seem to be alarmist in their communications to me.
One thing I can tell you: when they decide to shut down public schools in Chicago (single locations, not the system), it is not fair to assume that they are making a soundly thought out, rational decision including the impact on all of the parents who have to stay home etc. That's not how things work in Chicago. More likely to be a panicky knee-jerk reaction based on politics over all else.
Anyway I'm not sure what else I can do about it in any case. For now, I am fine sending my 2 year old out into "infected" Chicago with his Mexican caregiver. We are just washing hands a lot.
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The effect of message board filters on official US government bulletins concerning public health and safety: Bonnaroo is classified as a large public gathering. Public gatherings have been canceled in areas where flu has occurred. Public health measures at this stage serve to prevent this from becoming a pandemic. Official government documents designed to assist in public safety use "swine flu" to describe the current flu outbreak. The following is a partial copy of a recent bulletin released by the Center for Disease Control, after modification by Inforoo message board filters:
What is Miss Piggy flu? Miss Piggy Influenza (swine flu) is a respiratory disease of pigs caused by type A influenza viruses that causes regular outbreaks in pigs. People do not normally get Miss Piggy flu, but human infections can and do happen. Miss Piggy flu viruses have been reported to spread from person-to-person, but in the past, this transmission was limited and not sustained beyond three people.
Are there human infections with Miss Piggy flu in the U.S.? In late March and early April 2009, cases of human infection with Miss Piggy influenza A (H1N1) viruses were first reported in Southern California and near Guadalupe County, Texas. Other U.S. states have reported cases of Miss Piggy flu infection in humans and cases have been reported internationally as well. An updated case count of confirmed Miss Piggy flu infections in the United States is kept at www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/investigation.htm CDC and local and state health agencies are working together to investigate this situation.
Is this Miss Piggy flu virus contagious? CDC has determined that this Miss Piggy influenza A (H1N1) virus is contagious and is spreading from human to human. However, at this time, it is not known how easily the virus spreads between people.
What are the signs and symptoms of Miss Piggy flu in people? The symptoms of Miss Piggy flu in people are similar to the symptoms of regular human flu and include fever, cough, sore throat, body aches, headache, chills and fatigue. Some people have reported diarrhea and vomiting associated with Miss Piggy flu. In the past, severe illness (pneumonia and respiratory failure) and deaths have been reported with Miss Piggy flu infection in people. Like seasonal flu, Miss Piggy flu may cause a worsening of underlying chronic medical conditions.
Post by Britney's_Fears on May 1, 2009 7:16:59 GMT -5
The "epidemic" will be over as soon as the news stops running stories about Miss Piggy Flu. Hopefully Paris Hilton or Britney Spears will have a meltdown soon so that attention can shift away from this and then we can all breathe easy again.
^Well in all fairness reporting on the economy is hard, it takes math and all. Riburro sorry it bothers you but I think the new filter is pretty darn funny, plus it is a lot harder for someone to get all worked up and worried about swine flu, than sw!ne flu.
I'm telling ya, I am ready. I have all this sh!t in my basement from the last media scare. Remember 1999? When it turned 2000. Planes were going to fall out of the sky, elevators were going to drop. We bought bottled water, canned goods, and extra batteries for the vibrator.
Nothing happened.
I am a health care professional. I believe in being cautious and taking steps to ensure the safety and health of myself, my family, and my patients. But we are an alarmist society.
Case in point. I give flu shots, and the year they were in short supply was hell. We were one of the few with the shots. We were told by the CDC only to give to high risk. People that never got a shot wanted one because the media said they were in short supply. I was cussed out regularly and once threatened. Guess what, at the end of the flu season, although we had none, there was still vaccine left over.
Just take extra precautions, buy that 500 gallon vat of Purell, and stay at home if your sick. We will get through this. And I'll see you at Bonnaroo
Post by Britney's_Fears on May 1, 2009 8:34:00 GMT -5
I used to get a flu shot every October until I learned that flu shots have MERCURY in them so I skipped my flu shot this year and still didn't get the flu.
^Well in all fairness reporting on the economy is hard, it takes math and all. Riburro sorry it bothers you but I think the new filter is pretty darn funny, plus it is a lot harder for someone to get all worked up and worried about Miss Piggy flu, than sw!ne flu.
This all may look very funny some months from now, and hopefully by June 11 we can all laugh, and I can feel silly. It's hard to make a correct judgment now how this thing will go. Right now, I don't think anybody knows if this'll go pandemic, and the most knowledgeable health experts will admit they don't know.
Governments have developed a set of criteria and plans for pandemic flu that have never been used before. We're seeing the live, 1st take of these plans in action before our eyes. This experience may, probably will be modified in the future.
Personally, I haven't modified my behavior, except for bandying this topic around on this board, wasting an exorbitant amount of time. I wonder about the wisdom of filtering serious public health documents so they read like a screenplay for a Muppets movie. But, if the mods want to exercise humorous censorship over a public health situation, so be it. They've taken it upon themselves to subject the board to their judgment.
The Center for Disease Control has issued a medical alert about a highly contagious, potentially dangerous virus that is transmitted orally, by hand, and even electronically. This virus is called Weekly Overload Recreational Killer (WORK). If you receive WORK from your boss, any of your colleagues or anyone else via any means whatsoever - DO NOT TOUCH IT!!! This virus will wipe out your private life entirely. If you should come into contact with WORK you should immediately leave the premises.
Take two good friends to the nearest liquor store and purchase one or both of the antidotes - Work Isolating Neutralizer Extract (WINE) and Bothersome Employer Elimination Rebooter (BEER). Take the antidote repeatedly until WORK has been completely eliminated from your system.
You should immediately forward this medical alert to five friends. If you do not have five friends, you have already been infected and WORK is controlling your life.
Woo-Hoo we have our first H1N1 confirmed case in Montreal. They are saying that all 34 confirmed cases in Canada so far are very mild compared to what is going on in Mexico however.
^Well in all fairness reporting on the economy is hard, it takes math and all. Riburro sorry it bothers you but I think the new filter is pretty darn funny, plus it is a lot harder for someone to get all worked up and worried about Miss Piggy flu, than sw!ne flu.
This all may look very funny some months from now, and hopefully by June 11 we can all laugh, and I can feel silly. It's hard to make a correct judgment now how this thing will go. Right now, I don't think anybody knows if this'll go pandemic, and the most knowledgeable health experts will admit they don't know.
Governments have developed a set of criteria and plans for pandemic flu that have never been used before. We're seeing the live, 1st take of these plans in action before our eyes. This experience may, probably will be modified in the future.
Personally, I haven't modified my behavior, except for bandying this topic around on this board, wasting an exorbitant amount of time. I wonder about the wisdom of filtering serious public health documents so they read like a screenplay for a Muppets movie. But, if the mods want to exercise humorous censorship over a public health situation, so be it. They've taken it upon themselves to subject the board to their judgment.
if someone is getting their health information from inforoo, well, that's probably not good.
i have to side with folks who say this is a media driven event, and not an epi/pan demic.
if it really is the next big thing, there is little you can do to actually protect yourself. yeah, wash your hands and avoid people / crowds. but the latter is impossible, unless you live off the grid in the middle of the woods.
take a breath, pause, it's going to be okay
crunchy for your interest in all of this, even though i think it's overblown.
I think this is important, since it affects an in-state festival. Let's see it wrung out by the filters:
Music Fest Taking Swine Flu Precautions Sanitation Stations Added to Food Court
Last Edited: Thursday, 30 Apr 2009, 9:17 PM CDT Created On: Thursday, 30 Apr 2009, 8:34 PM CDT
* Amy Cowman Amy Cowman
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - "If you exhibit any types of symptoms of illness, be it a cold or flew or runny nose or coughing, you don't belong here."
Memphis in May organizers asked the Health Department to come down to Tom Lee Park Thursday afternoon and meet with food vendors for the Beale Street Music Festival. They want to take any extra precautions necessary to prevent the spread of swine flu.
"We've brought in additional hand sanitizing stations for patrons, hand washing stations; they'll put them around the food court."
Phyllis McNeal with the Health Department conducted the training and says though they seem like basic hygiene practices, like washing your hands, many people don't do them correctly.
"You want to scrub, you want to go between your fingers, use friction, go around your nails and if you can wash up to elbows."
And McNeal says if you have to sneeze or cough, do it the safe way.
"Cough into your elbow. You don't [cough into your hands] and contaminate your hands and then handle food."
They're also taking precautionary measures at the Church Health Center. Executive Director Dr. G. Scott Morris says they are prepared if anyone with the swine flu walks through the doors.
"We've actually seen a couple patients we know had the flu and we would not normally do cultures but we've done cultures just to see if it was possible."
And Dr. Morris says if people are sick and don't have a physician, they take walk-ins at the center.
"The church health center is for people who don't have health insurance. If a person is worried, just being worried is not enough. You need to have a fever, need to have a cough, need to be aching all over, those are the classic symptoms." There's a flat fee of about $30 to get treated at the Church Health Center. It opens at 7:00am.
Also, MusicFest officials ask people to use the sanitizing and hand washing stations this weekend.
Yea. And the entire city of Memphis also shuts down when we get half an inch of snow. Schools close, grocery store shelves go bare, and the news interrupts regular programming for unnecessary updates for what they tap as "Winter Death 2009".
Yea. And the entire city of Memphis also shuts down when we get half an inch of snow. Schools close, grocery store shelves go bare, and the news interrupts regular programming for unnecessary updates for what they tap as "Winter Death 2009".
Trust me, we're retarded.
you know - I really hate that word - but with all the panic about this flu - it is really appropriate here!
I think this is important, since it affects an in-state festival. Let's see it wrung out by the filters:
Music Fest Taking Miss Piggy Flu Precautions Sanitation Stations Added to Food Court
Last Edited: Thursday, 30 Apr 2009, 9:17 PM CDT Created On: Thursday, 30 Apr 2009, 8:34 PM CDT
* Amy Cowman Amy Cowman
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - "If you exhibit any types of symptoms of illness, be it a cold or flew or runny nose or coughing, you don't belong here."
Memphis in May organizers asked the Health Department to come down to Tom Lee Park Thursday afternoon and meet with food vendors for the Beale Street Music Festival. They want to take any extra precautions necessary to prevent the spread of Miss Piggy flu.
"We've brought in additional hand sanitizing stations for patrons, hand washing stations; they'll put them around the food court."
Phyllis McNeal with the Health Department conducted the training and says though they seem like basic hygiene practices, like washing your hands, many people don't do them correctly.
"You want to scrub, you want to go between your fingers, use friction, go around your nails and if you can wash up to elbows."
And McNeal says if you have to sneeze or cough, do it the safe way.
"Cough into your elbow. You don't [cough into your hands] and contaminate your hands and then handle food."
They're also taking precautionary measures at the Church Health Center. Executive Director Dr. G. Scott Morris says they are prepared if anyone with the Miss Piggy flu walks through the doors.
"We've actually seen a couple patients we know had the flu and we would not normally do cultures but we've done cultures just to see if it was possible."
And Dr. Morris says if people are sick and don't have a physician, they take walk-ins at the center.
"The church health center is for people who don't have health insurance. If a person is worried, just being worried is not enough. You need to have a fever, need to have a cough, need to be aching all over, those are the classic symptoms." There's a flat fee of about $30 to get treated at the Church Health Center. It opens at 7:00am.
Also, MusicFest officials ask people to use the sanitizing and hand washing stations this weekend.
Big deal - so they are taking precautions - does it say that they are cancelling?? Nope - adding more hand washing stations - great - they needed more! Educating the food staff on hygiene - well the prolly needed to do that anyway.
It's still JUST a freakin' flu strain - it CAN be treated by medications we have readily available in this country.
Wash your hands more often - and if you are just terrified - use your vacation time - stay home locked in your house - watch Chicken Little a few thousand times and wait for about a week for the news media hype to die down - then go on with life.
You prolly have more of a achance of being hit by a car or bus then you do of catching this strain of flu at this point.
The Center for Disease Control has issued a medical alert about a highly contagious, potentially dangerous virus that is transmitted orally, by hand, and even electronically. This virus is called Weekly Overload Recreational Killer (WORK). If you receive WORK from your boss, any of your colleagues or anyone else via any means whatsoever - DO NOT TOUCH IT!!! This virus will wipe out your private life entirely. If you should come into contact with WORK you should immediately leave the premises.
Take two good friends to the nearest liquor store and purchase one or both of the antidotes - Work Isolating Neutralizer Extract (WINE) and Bothersome Employer Elimination Rebooter (BEER). Take the antidote repeatedly until WORK has been completely eliminated from your system.
You should immediately forward this medical alert to five friends. If you do not have five friends, you have already been infected and WORK is controlling your life.
nice, just sent this to my boss an co workers labeled "CDC Warning"
I think this is important, since it affects an in-state festival. Let's see it wrung out by the filters:
Music Fest Taking Miss Piggy Flu Precautions Sanitation Stations Added to Food Court
Last Edited: Thursday, 30 Apr 2009, 9:17 PM CDT Created On: Thursday, 30 Apr 2009, 8:34 PM CDT
* Amy Cowman Amy Cowman
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - "If you exhibit any types of symptoms of illness, be it a cold or flew or runny nose or coughing, you don't belong here."
Big deal - so they are taking precautions - does it say that they are cancelling?? Nope - adding more hand washing stations - great - they needed more! Educating the food staff on hygiene - well the prolly needed to do that anyway.
It's still JUST a freakin' flu strain - it CAN be treated by medications we have readily available in this country.
Wash your hands more often - and if you are just terrified - use your vacation time - stay home locked in your house - watch Chicken Little a few thousand times and wait for about a week for the news media hype to die down - then go on with life.
You prolly have more of a achance of being hit by a car or bus then you do of catching this strain of flu at this point.
They are also asking sick people to stay away, rather sternly. We can guess that many will ignore the warning and recommendations, human behavior being what it is. Will you avoid Bonnaroo if you have a mild flu? Probably not, even after all the hype and public warnings. Maybe we should frame the question that way; will you still Roo if you have the flu?
Another question, if organizers ask sick people to stay home, do they offer refunds for tickets unused due to illness? If not, do they really expect a sick person to forgo $250+ and stay home? Do the organizers have some responsibility when dealing with a ongoing public health situation that they can *expect* to affect some of the attendees? They already do this with the medical tents, misting tents, staffing, lights, portajohns, water facilities and maintaining thoroughfares; all this is required absent an epidemic environment. What further responsibilities exist in the face of pandemic flu?
Last Edit: May 1, 2009 11:00:35 GMT -5 by RBRR - Back to Top
I've held off on commenting on this... I don't think it's nearly as big of a deal as the media is making it... it's as simple as this; this whole ordeal pops up, and in a relatively dry news climate, the media jumps all over it. How do you keep viewers? Keep giving them scary scenarios and give it a huge chunk of tv time. They'll keep coming back to see if it's gotten worse/better.
By the middle of May, this should be nothing more than an afterthought. I know people are sick, but, from what I understand, it's not that different than the normal flu; meaning that the only people who are in real danger of it would be the elderly, the very young children, or the chronically unhealthy. Bonnaroo's core audience is typically active (I mean, Christ, it's being in the June Tennessee sun for four days) and in their late teens, throughout their twenties, on up to people in their forties, and even beyond, to a smaller extent. Still, the ratio of people with working immune systems to people who really don't have that benefit is massive, I'd assume.
There shouldn't be a problem with Bonnaroo... if there is, then good God, America.