Are you scared by swine flu?

No. I'm much more afraid of Spandex than I am of Swine Flu.

Yes, and no

Not necessarily scared, but concerned. All junior schools in HK were closed on Friday for 14 days.

I find it a shame that we couldn't get more jokes out of it.

Uh uh... in fact, I wish I'd catch it, so I could spend some quality time in bed and on my couch during the week.

Not really. I'd rather not get it, because now is not a good time for me to be off sick and flu is horrible, but I'm not too worried about the health consequences of catching it as I am young and healthy. A primary school just up the road from me is shut because of it, there is a confirmed case within the university and I'm about to start clinical placements in the hospital - so I'm going to be coming into contact with it in the next few weeks. Lucky me. But still, not scary.

I've been learning how to examine patients for the last few weeks. Our volunteer patients seem to know every swine flu joke that's going. We were listening to a man's bowel sounds (with a stethoscope) today and he asked what we could hear. We struggled to come up with the right word to describe the sound, so he proffered "crackling". We said it didn't really sound like that. "Ah" he said "at least I don't have swine flu - ha ha ha ha ha!"

I have heard so many variations on that theme now... got to love our volunteer patients!

No, but I am scared that my potbelly pig will get it.

A little. Mostly I'm worried that a more virulent strain is going to appear this winter.

no not at all. All it is, is some stupid ploy to get everyone worried. Its not even as bad as the seasonal flu! There is nothing to worry about.

Just concerned.

Me too.

So far, it doesn't seem especially fatal.

No. I'm in the UK and although there have been cases, I think only one or two people have died, and they had underlying health problems. So at the moment I'm not scared, but I'm not naive to think it might not get much worse.

Kind of, because I'm an asthmatic.

No. But I am reassured that the WHO are scared by it and its potential.

No, I am not scared. Irrational fear breaks down the body's defenses.

Awww.. I wish I had a couch.

Couches are only good if you can watch TV from them, otherwise they're overrated. A bed and a TV is best.

mmmmmm...... quality time with comedy central...

now I want to get sick.

I have the bed and the 13 inch. I really need to get some furniture

Let's both get sick.

Have you checked out local Estate Sales or Garage Sales? Estate Sales are the best. If you wait to go to one that is due to a death and the sale is in an upscale neighborhood, you can really make a killing. Lots of times, those folks just want to get rid of really great stuff, as they've taken the super expensive or sentimental items.

I have a favorite Salvation Army warehouse that gets a lot of estate stuff. I'll get some pieces there, but they have to be things that can be disenfected -- like dressers and tables.

Cloth furniture needs to be new, which is why I have none. I am a little freaked out by spending a lot of free time on fabric that other people might have died, peed, crap, dandered, or had sex on. I have my eye on some stuff at Ikea -- washable covers.

I have these dogs that have frequent accidents.... and so I'm a little hesitant to buy anything new they might fudge up.

Also, I don't have any cash!

This boat ride sucks, huh?

Nope, don't worry about such things. Probably why my blood pressure and cholesterol are normal when everyone else in my family (both sides) has high blood pressure and high cholesterol. And numerous other problems, mostly related to stress.

> I have the bed and the 13 inch. I really need to get some furniture
>
Bah! Furniture is overrated. It gets in the way when you want to run the vacuum cleaner. And then your SO decides it's time to rearrange it every three weeks and you end up with a sofa in the kitchen for two days while trying to figure out where to put the recliner and the end tables. In the end, the living room looks just the way it did before you stuck the sofa in the kitchen, except for the coffee stain on the sofa, acquired while pouring a fresh cup because kneeling on the sofa was the only way to reach the kitchen counter...

Wow.. that sounds like my house.

Everything is displaced at the moment.

No not scared at all

Yawn, who cares...

Swine what?

Oh yeah, that thing.

Not thinking when Asia had the outbreak of bird flu I sent a message out to a large audience both in Asia offices and US office and made some joke (pun) about the "FOWL FLU". Oddly enough, no one said a word or chastised me for my foul sense of humor.

My good friend/neighbor died on his couch. His wife had someone haul it out to the curb for when garbage day came...someone took it.

My dog was sick and vomited from one end to the other of my last couch. I called ahead to the trash company and waited until the last minute to drag it out, wrapped in plastic to deter any takers. I still had to run outside and chase people off.

> My dog was sick and vomited from one end to the other of my last couch.
> I called ahead to the trash company and waited until the last minute
> to drag it out, wrapped in plastic to deter any takers. I still had
> to run outside and chase people off.

Why? If they want a couch covered in dog vomit, just let 'em have it. You didn't want it, did you?

I didn't want them to unwrap it and then abandon it after realizing it was funky. The point of wrapping it up and waiting until the last minute was so that I didn't have a vomit covered sofa sitting in front of my house. I spent the time to wrap it up in plastic..... silly to have people unwrap it, then leave... leaving it unwrapped.

Q) What's the difference between bird flu and swine flu?
A) With bird flu, the doctor gives you a tweetment. And with swine flu, he prescribes an oinkment.

no its just another flu