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...

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 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'