Posted on 10/12/2009 7:11:44 AM PDT by Scythian
I follow this map every year, it usually doesn't even start up until Novemeber, they started it early this year, and it's worse than I've ever seen it, the peak is usually Jan/Feb for flu ...
See map HERE
Since I started chemo over a year ago and have had low white counts and low immunity the entire time and I fly about every three weeks to and from Maryland, I carry those purels, never touch above my mouth, put my sleeve over hand to touch anything like escalators etc and use a window seat, and am alert for coughers and sneezers,,I have not been sick one time.
It is amazing but all those measures help. On a plane, we fly first class so we have more space and I use a wipe on the tray and do this procedure at grocery etc.
But what has amazed me is that hardly anybody is sickly on the plane. This trip there was one sick kid, coughing all the way, nose running and her Dad was sneezing. But the coughers and such are just not around.
If you ask me, sick people aren’t flying but I hear about them all round me.
I have been very lucky but am convinced handwashing, not touching above neck and such really works.
I know a women who lives in the Wisconsin Dells area. She got the Swine Flu (verified through the CDC)when she was 8 months pregnant. It developed into pneumonia and she spent two weeks in the ICU. The baby, Thank God, was delivered early and healthy, but the mother is still trying to recuperate. She was a very healthy women, up to that point, with no pregnancy problems.
With the Obamunists in charge, I don’t believe any of it.
This is flat out a fabrication.
The CDC is just another POLITICIZED member of the alphabet soup.
One of the dirtiest places you can touch are the handles of grocery shopping carts. They’ve done tests of all the germs that are present on shopping carts and the results have been astounding. Be sure to sanitize/wash hands as soon as you’re done touching those things.
"This map indicates geographic spread and does not measure the severity of influenza activity."
The masks’ greatest benefit are to keep your contaminated hands from making direct contact with the mucous membranes of your nose, or the moist oral cavities of your mouth. Both are easy routes for the virus to enter your body.
Unless you wear a ‘high-end’ mask, they won’t keep out airborne viruses reliably.
I live in the Milwaukee area. Both my daughter and one of my husband’s employees were sick enough to make multiple trips to the doctor when their respiratory problems persisted or worsened after intial treatment. Both were very sick for 2 weeks or more. Neither was tested for H1N1, so we will never know if that is what they had or not. At 25, our daughter is in the high-risk category for infection.
“I too have heard that it is weakening.”
I think that depends on where you live. In some areas of the country, it is most definitely not weakining.
Everybody is scared to death of H1N1, even though it doesn’t appear to be as bad as normal flu (it does however tend to damage younger people with other problems MORE than other flus).
Since everybody is “on the lookout”, people are reporting to their doctors for every little sniffle. Thus, we are finding a lot more “flu” cases than usual, when most people just stayed home for a day or so and never told anybody what they had.
No, "devestating" is the word used in the title.
Probably has a different meaning.
I don't know what, though. I've never seen that word before.
Tell me about it. I always use the wipes, then Purell my hands when I get back to my car. I use the wipes to line the kiddie seat, too, because lord knows what’s there, especially at certain richly diverse grocery stores.
Is your keyboard broken (CAPS LOCK STUCK) again or did someone take your sippy cup? Chill out, dude.
I have worked in the medical field for 20 years, and my sister currently works for the local clinic. Once you start getting positives, it is usually assumed that the "flu" swine flu, or seasonal flu is what is causing the symptoms. Same goes for other infectious diseases, like strep throat. If there has been a rash of strep infections, and a patient comes in with fever, white spots in throat, sore throat, etc, there is generally no reason to test for it, the provider is going to treat anyway. Flu tests are quite expensive, and if a patient has all of the same symptoms as every one else that walked in the clinic that day, unless there is concern of a secondary complication there is no reason to test for it.
If a patient does have a positive Influenza type A titer, there is generally no reason to send it to the specialty lab to confirm H1N1, because that is what is going around. Since there is no medication that will cure swine flu, you only need to agressively treat the secondary conditions, like those in your daughters case.
It makes sense, but what is frightening is when you have a person in the family who has one of the dreaded ‘underlying conditions’, it would be helpful to know if you have been exxposed to a person who officially has H1N1. I personally am in very little jeopardy of getting any kind of flu. I just never get sick. I am a lucky girl.
Run along now and get your flu shot like a good Obamabot. And leave the map reading to experts. You know, like people that can read.
Yes, certainly more informative. I've got to admit, though, that I was surprised when I zoomed-in to the map level that shows city names. What the Hell is going on in Mississippi?
Thanks for the info. However, my surgery is next week, I’m waiting to hear if that’s kinda too close for the shot. You’re still in chemo??? my sympathies!
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