PSA

[schpahky]

This is a public service announcement that everyone needs to CALM DOWN about the flue pandemic WHO just declared. After watching the media milk the WHO's centimeter-by-centimeter progress towards this move (if I read another headline about how they were "thinking about" or "considering" or "one step closer," I will scream, though frankly the

Comments

[4hour_ramona]

thank you.
avoidable panic needs to be avoided.

and now, a story: someone in my office had the flu - no the swine flu, just the regular ol' flu, and he came down with it right as everyone was all "OH NOES! it's coming up from Mexico to kill us all!"
so he went home on friday.
the following tuesday, a contract worker came in and around lunchtime i overheard her chatting with her doctor, asking if she was in danger of the swine flu, "no, i was not actually in contact with this person - there was a 4-day break between when he got sick and when i started. no, i'm not showing any symptoms. no, nobody else is sick. should i come in for a blood test anyway?"

i just shook my head and walked away.

[angstzeit]

People are still worried about that? Oy vey.

[chocomoose542]

Beware the power of stupid people in large groups. Now please sanitize your phones, your keyboards, your doorknobs and get the hell out of my face, and pay attention to something that is truly lethal, like putting on eye makeup whilst driving, or maybe contracting cancer in your 50s. That is all.