Comments on: Atlanta, how worried are you about the swine flu? http://blogs.ajc.com/better-health/2009/04/27/atlanta-how-worried-are-you-about-the-swine-flu/ Advice and suggestions for taking care of you and your family Mon, 27 Sep 2010 23:18:14 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Valeria Romero http://blogs.ajc.com/better-health/2009/04/27/atlanta-how-worried-are-you-about-the-swine-flu/comment-page-1/#comment-677 Valeria Romero Mon, 25 May 2009 00:49:08 +0000 http://blogs.ajc.com/better-health/?p=320#comment-677 i'm traveling to Atlnata next week and i want to know if there is any posibility of the swine flu there, because i've been hearing on tv that they just found new cases there...could i have some information about it, otherwise i plan to cancel my trip thanks i’m traveling to Atlnata next week and i want to know if there is any posibility of the swine flu there, because i’ve been hearing on tv that they just found new cases there…could i have some information about it, otherwise i plan to cancel my trip
thanks

]]> By: Goliath http://blogs.ajc.com/better-health/2009/04/27/atlanta-how-worried-are-you-about-the-swine-flu/comment-page-1/#comment-570 Goliath Sat, 02 May 2009 06:19:07 +0000 http://blogs.ajc.com/better-health/?p=320#comment-570 To everyone that is freaking out: Listen, I'm not going to sit here and bash on all the people that are getting concerned about the new strain of the flu. Its human nature to be cautious when something happens we don't quite understand. Yes, the flu sucks, and this new strain just means that your body is more prone to catch it. The majority of the time you get sick, you feel like !@#%, and you take the medicine in between.After a couple of days of your anti-bodies kicking the crap out of the virus, you get better. Sometimes, (generally in elderly folk, and newborns) it gets a little worse, and if the proper care isn't taken, death could be a serious possibility. But you have to understand something, things like that happen all the time. Its a sad fact in the pages of history. But people are not dying off left and right from this, they are simply getting sick. In a couple of days, (God forbid someone dies, because like I said, it is a possibility) when the majority of the so called "outbreak" patients are returned to their homes, feeling better and ready to return to their every day lives, I hope everyone that freaked out just sits back and laughs, and thinks to themselves "Well, that wasn't so bad. I should be more level-headed next time." But hey, if I'm wrong... RUNNNNNNNN!!!!!!! To everyone that is freaking out: Listen, I’m not going to sit here and bash on all the people that are getting concerned about the new strain of the flu. Its human nature to be cautious when something happens we don’t quite understand. Yes, the flu sucks, and this new strain just means that your body is more prone to catch it. The majority of the time you get sick, you feel like !@#%, and you take the medicine in between.After a couple of days of your anti-bodies kicking the crap out of the virus, you get better. Sometimes, (generally in elderly folk, and newborns) it gets a little worse, and if the proper care isn’t taken, death could be a serious possibility. But you have to understand something, things like that happen all the time. Its a sad fact in the pages of history. But people are not dying off left and right from this, they are simply getting sick. In a couple of days, (God forbid someone dies, because like I said, it is a possibility) when the majority of the so called “outbreak” patients are returned to their homes, feeling better and ready to return to their every day lives, I hope everyone that freaked out just sits back and laughs, and thinks to themselves “Well, that wasn’t so bad. I should be more level-headed next time.”

But hey, if I’m wrong…

RUNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!

]]> By: SG http://blogs.ajc.com/better-health/2009/04/27/atlanta-how-worried-are-you-about-the-swine-flu/comment-page-1/#comment-569 SG Sat, 02 May 2009 00:23:00 +0000 http://blogs.ajc.com/better-health/?p=320#comment-569 is=if...sorry for the typo. Why on Earth are you people sending your kids and grandkids to school with masks on? Kids and adults catch the flu more often by not washing their hands. You don't have to be OCD about it, but try and use some common sense. :) is=if…sorry for the typo. Why on Earth are you people sending your kids and grandkids to school with masks on? Kids and adults catch the flu more often by not washing their hands. You don’t have to be OCD about it, but try and use some common sense. :)

]]> By: SG http://blogs.ajc.com/better-health/2009/04/27/atlanta-how-worried-are-you-about-the-swine-flu/comment-page-1/#comment-568 SG Sat, 02 May 2009 00:18:48 +0000 http://blogs.ajc.com/better-health/?p=320#comment-568 Hey Bob, shut the hell up. This isn't a political issue at all, and your boy Obama, with the help of the Congress, now has every single American owing the government 37k....even the unborn, so get off your soapbox already. The fact is this. Only the weak will die from it, and with proper treatment, it can be knocked out with the proper meds. But like most recent events, it's blown out of proportion by the media. 36,000 people die from influenza yearly....just imagine is the US had socialized medicine when this broke out....we'd be screwed. Hey Bob, shut the hell up. This isn’t a political issue at all, and your boy Obama, with the help of the Congress, now has every single American owing the government 37k….even the unborn, so get off your soapbox already. The fact is this. Only the weak will die from it, and with proper treatment, it can be knocked out with the proper meds. But like most recent events, it’s blown out of proportion by the media. 36,000 people die from influenza yearly….just imagine is the US had socialized medicine when this broke out….we’d be screwed.

]]> By: Shannon http://blogs.ajc.com/better-health/2009/04/27/atlanta-how-worried-are-you-about-the-swine-flu/comment-page-1/#comment-567 Shannon Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:56:34 +0000 http://blogs.ajc.com/better-health/?p=320#comment-567 Very true, Wanda, very true! Neither our past President or our current President is to blame for this. And it should be said as a reminder that this started in Mexico, anyways and not in the U.S. Very true, Wanda, very true! Neither our past President or our current President is to blame for this. And it should be said as a reminder that this started in Mexico, anyways and not in the U.S.

]]> By: Alma http://blogs.ajc.com/better-health/2009/04/27/atlanta-how-worried-are-you-about-the-swine-flu/comment-page-1/#comment-565 Alma Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:29:12 +0000 http://blogs.ajc.com/better-health/?p=320#comment-565 My grandson is in middle school and was thrown out of school today for wearing a surgical mask that his mother insisted he wear to protect himself after reading the CDC's announcement that deaths are expected in Georgia from the swine flu. Not only did the school require that she take him home for wearing the mask (calling it a "distraction"), the personnel in the school office laughed at him and ridiculed him for wearing it, embarrassing him in front of teachers and classmates. This morning the CDC confirmed a case of swine flu in Georgia--the very day my grandson is thrown out of school for wearing a mask. My grandson is in middle school and was thrown out of school today for wearing a surgical mask that his mother insisted he wear to protect himself after reading the CDC’s announcement that deaths are expected in Georgia from the swine flu. Not only did the school require that she take him home for wearing the mask (calling it a “distraction”), the personnel in the school office laughed at him and ridiculed him for wearing it, embarrassing him in front of teachers and classmates. This morning the CDC confirmed a case of swine flu in Georgia–the very day my grandson is thrown out of school for wearing a mask.

]]> By: Wanda http://blogs.ajc.com/better-health/2009/04/27/atlanta-how-worried-are-you-about-the-swine-flu/comment-page-1/#comment-564 Wanda Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:35:56 +0000 http://blogs.ajc.com/better-health/?p=320#comment-564 I don't think we can blame Bush or Obama for this one. Please don't make swine flu political. I don’t think we can blame Bush or Obama for this one. Please don’t make swine flu political.

]]> By: sara http://blogs.ajc.com/better-health/2009/04/27/atlanta-how-worried-are-you-about-the-swine-flu/comment-page-1/#comment-563 sara Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:14:19 +0000 http://blogs.ajc.com/better-health/?p=320#comment-563 just wondering.. how did george bush get invloved in this?? genius just wondering.. how did george bush get invloved in this??
genius

]]> By: Allyana http://blogs.ajc.com/better-health/2009/04/27/atlanta-how-worried-are-you-about-the-swine-flu/comment-page-1/#comment-562 Allyana Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:02:19 +0000 http://blogs.ajc.com/better-health/?p=320#comment-562 As usual, the press is creating a panic. At any given point in time, X number of people have the flu. I don't see as much press about women and children being raped and murdered around the world, and more suffer from that than are now suffering from the flu. As usual, the press is creating a panic. At any given point in time, X number of people have the flu. I don’t see as much press about women and children being raped and murdered around the world, and more suffer from that than are now suffering from the flu.

]]> By: bob http://blogs.ajc.com/better-health/2009/04/27/atlanta-how-worried-are-you-about-the-swine-flu/comment-page-1/#comment-561 bob Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:59:19 +0000 http://blogs.ajc.com/better-health/?p=320#comment-561 when will someone tell the truth and acknowledge that this is the fault of george bush when will someone tell the truth and acknowledge that this is the fault of george bush

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