Swine flu, could it be the new smallpox?

I hope going to Texas this weekend is okay...
Also I heard of this TamaFlu thing, that if you take it within 24 hours of getting any flu, the flu goes away.

you'll be fine

I don't honestly see what the big deal is. It's not really that different than other flus in the U.S. The only death I've heard of was of a baby. If a baby has the flu, it's going to die.

Our local pharmacies are sold out of facemasks and flu medications. Hell yes, I live in a community of idiots.

*goes outside, takes a deep breath*

~fuck you swine flu~

My school is in a panic.

"To ensure the safety an health of our students, all extracurricular activities have been cancelled until further notice for the remainder of the year. We don't want anyone to panic or overreact; we're just taking the necessary steps to keep our students healthy."

In other words, they don't want to overreact, so they're just shutting down everything that goes on outside of the regular school schedule. Right.

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Originally Posted by Ifafudafi

My school is in a panic.

"To ensure the safety an health of our students, all extracurricular activities have been cancelled until further notice for the remainder of the year. We don't want anyone to panic or overreact; we're just taking the necessary steps to keep our students healthy."

In other words, they don't want to overreact, so they're just shutting down everything that goes on outside of the regular school schedule. Right.

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Exact same shit is happening at my school, it made me laugh. I had a paper that I could've typed out here, but I threw it away. :|

Of course, I've taken the liberty of explaining to my students that most of this is merely a drastic overreaction; you wouldn't believe what some of them come into my classroom saying.

"Mr. $Q^*%#$^%#@! Did you know there's this flu going around and it's everywhere and it's going to kill us so they're shutting the school down?"

"Yeah, that was that pig thing! I ate some bacon last night... I hope I didn't get it."

Etc, etc.

I wish that would happen here, haha. Our school sent out some notice about washing hands, that was it.

*sigh*
School about 5 miles away from mine just closed down for 1 case of the flu.

Oh for christs sake it's just a new mutation of Influenza. But it's still just influenza. I have no idea why people are panicking. Just use some common sense and it shouldn't be an issue.