Piggy Flu

[PB&JAM 1]

OMG!

The virus has mutated and they've quarantined London!

BBC NEWS | Europe | EU quarantines London in flu panic

LOL! thats great!

its just hype. Nik+Heather hit it dead on. its the flu, no worse then a regular flu. even the regular flu kills ppl. i'm not a bit worried, my friend who works at a local University here in southern Cali said there were 7 ppl with it. i never heard anything about it. they recovered, they are fine. as with any flu, it will show back up in winter months. man, it was like a new type of terrorism a few weeks ago. good idea, give up the tv! oh, yes and i love the barf icon too lol

[paulinespens 3]

OK, so,

1. This new flu is not worse than the regular old flu, although it is a new strain. Avoid it just like you would avoid the regular flu - wash your hands, try not to hang out with sick people. Get your sleep. Eat your vitamins. (Don't listen to our vice president. UGH)

2. Pretty useless to quarantine people. Usually (as with most viruses) they are contagious before they even start to feel a twinge.

On a more light hearted note, I got a downright nasty cold on Monday as the news was really starting to break - at first I thought that after hearing about it on the radio all morning I'd talked myself into feeling sick. No, reeeealy bad cold. I haven't perfected the cough-oink yet, but I cheered myself up thinking about what cool You-Tube video I could upload if I could cough-oink and went around doing it in public. Figured I'd get arrested under the yelling-fire-in-a-crowded-theatre clause.

I would SO utterly give that five stars. Oh the power of the intertron!

I'm not too concerned, I just don't want something yuck before I leave. I don't know anybody's who's sick that I'd hang around with, and I do have my num vitamins (Basset's chewy vitamins).

As for Slough, Paulinepens, it's kinda funny as you can tell the minute you get into it. I live in a very green, lush area, birds singing, owls tuu-wuuing at inconvenient times at the night, foxes wailing, etc., mmm naturetypething, and the minute you go through Windsor and go through it to Slough on the other side...you can see the grey-green of Sloughness creeping and spilling into anything. It's a bit like the red weed in War of the Worlds (BEFORE the version with Tom Cruise existed). It is to be Avoided.

Grooooink!

It's apparently fashionable to want piggy flu. There's a Facebook group for it...

Magpie.

I know Slough pretty well my ex is from there used to spend alot of time there she used to live near the long barn pub think the area was known as the

Windsor Meadows. Now im happily married in Kentucky. The drive to windsor was nice going to Eaton bridge. I used to get the train alot to Windsor and eat at was the beafeater place and sit by the window playing spot the american.

[Jon&Lindsey 0]

Slightly off-topic, but so glad you are out of AP, Magpie!

[KnightAndMagpie 7]

Slightly off-topic, but so glad you are out of AP, Magpie!

Why thank you! I was so relieved when I got the letter, it was an immense weight off my chest. Now I'm just waiting for the text from the courier to tell me when my passport+visa's coming... .

Magpie.

[Mags 112]

H1N1 has been hugely overplayed. Recent tests have confirmed that in its current form it's actually milder than normal 'flu.

Don't fall for the hype!

[KnightAndMagpie 7]

H1N1 has been hugely overplayed. Recent tests have confirmed that in its current form it's actually milder than normal 'flu.

Don't fall for the hype!

Oh I know. It's more that I don't want to catch anything yuck before I go, because SOMEONE will potentiallly spaz out and start hyperventilating.

:: Returns to pulling her room apart so she can organise things for Shipping ::

Magpie.

[MARM 7]

There are about 208 confirmed cases here in Illinois...just reading that made me feel like I have the flu, even the slightest cough or nose-blowing raises the flags for anyone here...