Yep, we all have it at my house. It's amazing the variation of effect on different people. My wife and son are really sick, but nothing approaching the necessity of hospitalization. I, conversely, had a barely detectable sore throat for a couple of days. You have to wonder if some people display no symptoms at all, even though infected. I might not have noticed my slight sore throat had I not be made more aware by the other members of my family being ill.
Personally, I think this whole episode is Shakespearean. You know... Much Ado about Nothing and perhaps The Tempest (in a teapot). Far more people die of the usual form of influenza, more than 30,000 per year in the U.S., and nothing is made of it. And yet, this relatively benign disease occupies all the headlines and is causing all the panic. How typical. M. --- On Thu, 11/5/09, Stephen A. Lawrence <sa...@pobox.com> wrote: > From: Stephen A. Lawrence <sa...@pobox.com> > Subject: [Vo]:[OT] Swine flu > To: vortex-l@eskimo.com > Date: Thursday, November 5, 2009, 1:36 PM > Some of you may have been debating > whether to get the vaccine or not. > > Here are a couple of personal observations... > > -- They say it's not very deadly. Well, I guess it's > not, we're all > still alive here. > > -- They say it's not usually very serious. Well, I > guess it's not; the > number of days when it knocks you right over flat on your > back in bed > seems to be smaller than what I recall other flues > doing. Most of the > time you've got it you get to join the ranks of the Walking > Wounded. > > -- They say it may stick around a little longer than > usual... and hey, > man, they are right! > > This is the Energizer Bunny of flues. As members of > the Early Adopters > program, we received our cases by aerial delivery (Achoo!) > quite some > time before the vaccine appeared on store shelves in our > town, and it's > still going strong. > > They also say it may have an unusual tendency to bring > along secondary > infections "for the ride", like, for instance, eye > infections. And I > have to say, they're right again. (Ouch.) > > All in all, if this was developed in a black lab somewhere > (*Woof!* -- > er, no, I mean a clandestine laboratory), said lab being > packed with > evil scientists engaging in depraved experiments with > recombinant virus > fragments, then those scientists are not out to destroy the > world. No, > indeed. They are sadists: They are simply > determined to make the world > *miserable*. > > And now I shall go back to Saying Nothing, probably for at > least another > few days, or until we're all over this Thing here. > >
