I'm scared stiff, not been out the house for 11 days now. Will do like, once it all dies down. I'm sat here now, with surgical gloves on, reading the TV Quick, awesome. I'll type this, then i'm off to wash my hands.

Shows that the media have too much influence over people's opinions. If it wasn't reported as much as it has been, no one would know or care about it.

I think employers need to be responsible too, if any of their employees get this flu then they should be allowed to take time off work until they are fully recovered.

All too often we see employers who actively encourage (threaten) people to turn into work when they are probably not fit to do so.

The catering industry especially are notorious for not being sympathetic to illness of its staff.

Are you married to Ian Beale by any chance ?

them jars of urine were at your house last year though?

And how exactly would people not knowing or caring about it be a good thing?




If you were talking about Katie and Peter splitting up (or other such similar things regularly reported) then I could agree that not knowing or caring would be ok but I really can't see how not telling people about a pandemic can have any positive effect.

To be fair in the cases of those who I know who have it/have had it that is certainly the case for them.

Going off the number of potential casualties reported in this mornings press I wouldn't be surprised if the UK's economy ground to a complete halt. There simply wont be enough people left alive or well enough to keep these businesses operating according to the tabloids.

They weren't urine, they were home made lemon curd, dafty.

i know what i tasted.


get them tissue boxes off your feet as well.

How often can you believe anything you read in the press!!

Do you think we're all (sorry the few of us who survive) are going to wake up one morning and find it like a scene from 28 days later!!!

To put a little reality into the situation, its worth realising that of all these 'cases' of swine flu currently being reported, about 10% will be actual, real swine flu, the rest will be people panicking or simply exaggerating their symptons over the phone so as to get their hands on some Tamiflu.

As another poster has suggested, things would be helped if the media stopped treating this virus as something that threatens the future of the human race, and instead reported the real facts, that are simply that there is a flu bug doing the rounds.

My post was a somewhat tongue in cheek dig at the media darling.

Spoken to a mate's mum today who teaches at Beaumont (sp), and she was saying it's well spread, and she had minor symptons or something along those lines.

Not sure if she was mixed up on what swine flu is or whatever, but it seemed strange for an apparent teacher to keep on teaching if she had swine flu

Every hyperchondriac/drama queen in the UK has 'minor' symptons...its in vogue to have it....



Teaching would be the furthest thing on her mind if she had the real deal....Sadly, every pillock who has a scratchy throat seems to think they have swine flu...

Exactly the sort of people that go the doctors over the slightest thing. When the GP says "I think the problem is you may be a hyperchondriac" they reply "Oh no I've not got that as well have I".

I'm no doctor but......wouldnt minor symptoms simply be a cold....?????

That's what I thought myself. I haven't a clue about this swine flu, so I was just putting my little story out there to clear things up

I'm sure she has bigger issues, like the Knives that they are probably all carrying. You give a kid from Longford a D-, you get a Chelsea smile.

I remember when I was a pup and we had an away footy game there. Getting to the bus after the game was murder, 'bare eds' waiting for us shouting 'padgate scum'

Exactly, some 'Orford heads' gonna spark you. Bagheads mate.

I got back from Tenerife on Tuesday and was ill in Tenerife since the Thursday before. At first I thought it was sunstroke but the longer it has gone on the more I think it was Swine Flu.

Most of the smyptoms were there but I think it is slowly going now. Only thing I have is a sore throat and cough. Anybody still know if its contagious?

yes you are typhoid mary, stay in for at least 6 months eating only tinned soup and deficating in a bucket whilst watching re runs of the simpsons.

when you eventually re emerge into the "real world" you will discover warrington have won the challenge cup and coventry is no longer the place to be sent to when being ignored! good luck

sorry darling!! keep your panties on!