How concerned are you about swine flu?

With many students returning to school in the upcoming weeks, concern is rising that the swine flu will spread more and more.

As a parent, are you taking precautions as you send your child off the school? Placing some hand sanitizer in their knap sack? Having a talk with them about the dangers of the swine flu, and ways to prevent getting it? Sending flu packets off with your college student?

Or do you think such precautions are silly and the swine flu concerns are overblown?

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10 comments Add your comment

Kody

August 3rd, 2009
1:08 pm

I believe that the WHO and CDC. have continued to say this flu is mild, that if it ever did become more dangerous, no one would believe it.

Swine Flu Britain

August 3rd, 2009
1:17 pm

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Todd A. Osborn MSM, CHS-III

August 3rd, 2009
1:19 pm

Taking precautions should be a regular part of the flu season. Understanding the nature of the threat and what you can do to protect yourself is just good sense. The precautions for H1N1 are the same as regular and by educating ourselves to avoid the flu in essence is protecting us.

The difference between the threats is the potential of the H1N1 to mutate into something that is a greater health threat to a different population that the regular flu bug.

Andy in Blairsville

August 4th, 2009
2:05 pm

All of a sudden that ugly Homeland Security woman is really concerned about this Illegal Alien Swine Flu so that tells me as a citizen this is yet another non-event labeled as an EMERGENCY in order to justify printing and spending tax payer money.

Go back to work….nothing to see here….

Shelly Spoeth

August 5th, 2009
8:52 am

Yes, it is scary…I’m scared for my 2.5 year old. But, what’s scarier is the school-age children and pregnant women. I work with an Atlanta company that produces a cleanser that you wash with like soap and it kills germs including swine flu (it was tested) for up to six hours. My famliy is bathing in it, so is my friend who is 8 months pregnant. I hope everyone takes this seriously and understands it’s not just washing your hands once a day. It’s after anything you touch! Or use something like I mentioned, it’s called Hibiclens and available in drug stores. Good luck to everyone this flu season!

KT

August 11th, 2009
2:10 pm

Federal government fear campaign.

Government Conspiracy!

August 11th, 2009
2:21 pm

Tell me how three strains of influenza from three separate continents come into a hybrid form of a so called swine flu? The H1N1 is Avian from Asia, Human flu from Europe, and Swine from Mexico and the Americas! Looks like a biological or soft kill weapon developed in an Army Bio lab! Also look at your American history, last swine flu outbreak occured at and around Fort Dix Army base!

You all can have mine as well as my families vaccine, especially since it contains the same adjuviant as the vaccine given to the Gulf War vets that contributs to Gulf War syndrome! Yeah great idea Government, shoot it up in Pregnant women and kids! Since when do you vaccinate pregnant women? I think that shoot is a disaster especially since the new law passed in congress giving no liability to the Big Pharma conpanies for damages and death with this and any other vaccine!

Enjoy the free shots sheepies! They will have to kill me first to shoot me with that shot!

Larry

August 11th, 2009
3:09 pm

There is a lot of truth to what Mr. Government Conspiracy is espousing. I work for the CDC, and I can with 100% certainty tell you that the swine is not a virus, but it an advanced military weapon using the latest in nano technology. There are certain government entities that will use the latest in next-generation spy and military equipment to fight the corrupt arms dealer Destro and the growing threat of the mysterious Cobra organization to prevent them from plunging the world into chaos. So what ever you do don’t take that shot.

Government Conspiracy!

August 11th, 2009
4:04 pm

Very funny Larry, love the link between now the GI Joe movie! In all seriousness check this out:

As the anticipated July release date for Baxter’s A/H1N1 flu pandemic vaccine approaches, an Austrian investigative journalist is warning the world that the greatest crime in the history of humanity is underway. Jane Burgermeister has recently filed criminal charges with the FBI against the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations (UN), and several of the highest ranking government and corporate officials concerning bioterrorism and attempts to commit mass murder. She has also prepared an injunction against forced vaccination which is being filed in America. These actions follow her charges filed in April against Baxter AG and Avir Green Hills Biotechnology of Austria for producing contaminated bird flu vaccine, alleging this was a deliberate act to cause and profit from a pandemic.

Summary of claims and allegations filed with FBI in Austria on June 10, 2009

In her charges, Burgermeister presents evidence of acts of bioterrorism that is in violation of U.S. law by a group operating within the U.S. under the direction of international bankers who control the Federal Reserve, as well as WHO, UN and NATO. This bioterrorism is for the purpose of carrying out a mass genocide against the U.S. population by use of a genetically engineered flu pandemic virus with the intent of causing death. This group has annexed high government offices in the U.S.

The charges contend that these defendants conspired with each other and others to devise, fund and participate in the final phase of the implementation of a covert international bioweapons program involving the pharmaceutical companies Baxter and Novartis. They did this by bioengineering and then releasing lethal biological agents, specifically the “bird flu” virus and the “swine flu virus” in order to have a pretext to implement a forced mass vaccination program which would be the means of administering a toxic biological agent to cause death and injury to the people of the U.S. This action is in direct violation of the Biological Weapons Anti-terrorism Act.

Burgermeister’s charges include evidence that Baxter AG, Austrian subsidiary of Baxter International, deliberately sent out 72 kilos of live bird flu virus, supplied by the WHO in the winter of 2009 to 16 laboratories in four counties. She claims this evidence offers clear proof that the pharmaceutical companies and international government agencies themselves are actively engaged in producing, developing, manufacturing and distributing biological agents classified as the most deadly bioweapons on earth in order to trigger a pandemic and cause mass death.

For real news head to http://www.infowars.com sheepies!

Arthur W. Jordin

September 11th, 2009
7:29 pm

H1N1 is a virus. Viruses are only “killed” by viricides. Viricides differ on their effects on different strains of viruses. There is presently NO viricide for H1N1.

Hand washing protects you and others whom you touch by diluting the viruses on your hands. Even soap and water produces this effect. However, antibacterial and antimicrobial soaps have NO effect on viruses other than diluting them.

I have noticed advertisements for hand cleansers that claim to be effective against influenza. They cite proof of their effectiveness. But are they more effective than washing with your favorite hand soap? Probably not!

Why spend money on falsely advertised products? You can buy snake oil a lot cheaper!