Swine Flu and Gear In Mexico

[bigjoered]

Just wondering what everyones thoughts were about UG from Mexico with the Swine Flu being a big issue in the news right now.  Do you think that gear from down low might be risky besides the usual issues with UG gear?

Sometimes with the media blowing things way out of proportion I wonder if there is really anything to be worried about.  What do you guys think?

[Luv2Hurt]

Im in the wait and see mode.  I think i will be cooking my own food for a little while, as many resturaunt workers are from south of the border.

[chainsaw]

Just wondering what everyones thoughts were about UG from Mexico with the Swine Flu being a big issue in the news right now.  Do you think that gear from down low might be risky besides the usual issues with UG gear?

Sometimes with the media blowing things way out of proportion I wonder if there is really anything to be worried about.  What do you guys think?

Its fine, stallion, schereing, or organon..  The flu is spread through air hands ect.  can't live in water or oil.

[jtsunami]

um you can't get it from eating food, it is air born.

[bigjoered]

Thats good to know.

[shrek]

it is no longer called swine flu

[Luv2Hurt]

um you can't get it from eating food, it is air born.

LOL yeah what happens if an infected cook coughs all over your food before you eat it?  You eat the germs, then they eat you.  if you swap spit with someone sick with the flu, theres a good chance you can catch it that way.

[jtsunami]

LOL yeah what happens if an infected cook coughs all over your food before you eat it?  You eat the germs, then they eat you.  if you swap spit with someone sick with the flu, theres a good chance you can catch it that way.

lol this isn't aids or some deadly virus we are talking about it's the flu 

[Luv2Hurt]

lol this isn't aids or some deadly virus we are talking about it's the flu 

I hope you are right JT 

[4thAD]

I listened to a really good Doc speak on Swine Flu last night, and he said the media is completely blowing this thing out of proportion. He said the virus is basically a weak virus, and as it is being passed from human to human it gets weaker. Pandemic by definition is a new strain which the virus is, but it is no where near as bad as media says. If it were we would be seeing thousands of new infections daily not a couple hundred. All of the deaths were in Mexico except for the one in Texas yesterday, who was a Mexican national (in the US visiting), who probably contracted the virus directly from a pig, where the virus is in its strongest form. US polls say only 1-3% of people are really worried about swine flu. With the bad ratings in the press, unless this virus suddenly gains steam I predict this thing goes away pretty fast. The media does not have a very long attention span unless the ratings are exceptional.

[jtsunami]

I listened to a really good Doc speak on Swine Flu last night, and he said the media is completely blowing this thing out of proportion. He said the virus is basically a weak virus, and as it is being passed from human to human it gets weaker. Pandemic by definition is a new strain which the virus is, but it is no where near as bad as media says. If it were we would be seeing thousands of new infections daily not a couple hundred. All of the deaths were in Mexico except for the one in Texas yesterday, who was a Mexican national (in the US visiting), who probably contracted the virus directly from a pig, where the virus is in its strongest form. US polls say only 1-3% of people are really worried about swine flu. With the bad ratings in the press, unless this virus suddenly gains steam I predict this thing goes away pretty fast. The media does not have a very long attention span unless the ratings are exceptional.

I completely agree so much scare tactics and getting more viewers.

[Luv2Hurt]

I listened to a really good Doc speak on Swine Flu last night, and he said the media is completely blowing this thing out of proportion. He said the virus is basically a weak virus, and as it is being passed from human to human it gets weaker. Pandemic by definition is a new strain which the virus is, but it is no where near as bad as media says. If it were we would be seeing thousands of new infections daily not a couple hundred. All of the deaths were in Mexico except for the one in Texas yesterday, who was a Mexican national (in the US visiting), who probably contracted the virus directly from a pig, where the virus is in its strongest form. US polls say only 1-3% of people are really worried about swine flu. With the bad ratings in the press, unless this virus suddenly gains steam I predict this thing goes away pretty fast. The media does not have a very long attention span unless the ratings are exceptional.

I pretty much agree.  But there can be a pandemic today.  Makes me think of the 1918 influenza pandemic that hit the world hard 1917-1919, possibly 100 million people killed.  I remember this cause as a boy my Grandmother told me about her brother who died as a child in 1918 of the flu.  I thought wow! he died of the flu?  Anyhow most think these kinds of things mainly hit the very young, old and weak, well this strain of flu was different.  It hit hardest the strongest and healthiest people.  These people showed a strong immune response to the virus and it caused their lungs to fight it hard and they ended up basically drowning in all the fluid the body produced in trying to fight the virus.  It hit people in the 25-35 YO range the hardest and the fall of 1918 saw a wave of the virus that was the deadliest.  The fall/winter 1918-1919 had to of been a long terrible winter.

http://virus.stanford.edu/uda/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu


Just heard the news and it does appear to be picking up steam. 1,000,000 dead so far is predicted.  Say Mexico is not telling all.  They want to close the borders, but US says no....for now.

[chainsaw]

You get more benefits from the AAS than harm the germ could do!

[4thAD]

I pretty much agree.  But there can be a pandemic today.  Makes me think of the 1918 influenza pandemic that hit the world hard 1917-1919, possibly 100 million people killed.  I remember this cause as a boy my Grandmother told me about her brother who died as a child in 1918 of the flu.  I thought wow! he died of the flu?  Anyhow most think these kinds of things mainly hit the very young, old and weak, well this strain of flu was different.  It hit hardest the strongest and healthiest people.  These people showed a strong immune response to the virus and it caused their lungs to fight it hard and they ended up basically drowning in all the fluid the body produced in trying to fight the virus.  It hit people in the 25-35 YO range the hardest and the fall of 1918 saw a wave of the virus that was the deadliest.  The fall/winter 1918-1919 had to of been a long terrible winter.

http://virus.stanford.edu/uda/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu


Just heard the news and it does appear to be picking up steam. 1,000,000 dead so far is predicted.  Say Mexico is not telling all.  They want to close the borders, but US says no....for now.

They are saying the deaths have leveled out. The virus is a weak virus that is missing an amino acid that allows the virus to steadily multiply in the body. As I stated above the normal flu would be a pandemic every year, except pandemic by definition is a new strain of disease.