It’s freak out about hurricanes season. Freak out about on flus season is October/November. These doctors need to learn their calendar.
Seriously I nearly died from this H1N1 years ago. It’s when I started taking vitamin D3 religiously. Double pneumonia in three days???? Never was that sick ever, before or since. Major antibiotics saved my life.
If that strain is coming back, or a new variant of it, may I suggest to my FReeper friends who weigh 120 or more, take 5000 IU daily of D3 as soon as you are no longer bathed in the summer sun. September, whenever. At the very least you will get a lesser case of it. At best, your friends and coworkers might get it and you, exposed, won’t.
Sham Verma of Sector 37
Just cuz, irony...
Here we go again. “Yip, yip yip, yip, worp a worp worp, boom a boom boom, ...
General pointers about influenza.
1) Optimal spread through coughing and sneezing happens at 40F (4.4C) and low humidity. At higher temperatures and humidity, its spread is much more reliant on physical contact contamination.
2) If you are out in public during a flu epidemic, you can significantly protect yourself by using hand sanitizer six times a day. If there is visible contamination, clean with soap and water first. If contact surfaces are a problem, a pump bottle atomizer with 70% rubbing alcohol is effective.
3) Ear loop masks will not protect you from contaminated air. They are used by people with the flu to reduce the contamination they spread when they cough or sneeze. If you must be in a heavily contaminated indoor small area, you need an N95 respirator mask, safety glasses or goggles, and medical gloves.
4) In enclosed areas with sick people, open windows are far more effective in cycling in “fresh air” and eliminating bad air, than are closed loop air conditioners.
5) There are germicidal ultraviolet lights both to sanitize air and for immersion into water. There are also “cold plasma” hand sanitizers that can clean hands in just 10 seconds.
It killed 3-5% of the world’s population in one year
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_flu_pandemic
Get plenty of sunshine or take vitamin D3 supplements. You will not get any such virii should they come close.