Comments on Cozy Chicks: Is H1N1 Worthy of the Hype?

That's hilarious! I miss hearing those kinds o...

2009-11-13T13:29:01.506-05:00

That's hilarious! I miss hearing those kinds of comments from my kids who are now in high school. I went ahead and had them vaccinated because the school was doing it during class. We have never gotten a flu vaccine and have remained healthy. (cross fingers) I guess I have fallen victim to all the news hype.

I think the hype about the H1N1 is hype!!!! What ...

2009-11-12T15:25:49.239-05:00

I think the hype about the H1N1 is hype!!!! What it did was hurt the swine industry by the name "swine" flu.
Now if they charged for the shots who got the money? It helped the pharmacuetical companies.
My 6 year granddaughter got it and she only had the runs and a slight fever. After 4 days back to school she went. Now about 2 weeks later she has a sinus infection and bronchitis.
After my granddaughter got over it her mother got it. She said she never had such awful body aches. She had some Tyenol 3 and took that. The nurse said that was a good idea because the coedine would help with the body aches and the chest cough. The tyenol would help the fever. At one point her fever peeked at 105. Now a week later she has sinus infection and strep throat.
Personally, I think they both had a good case of the flu.
And no, I don't get the flu shots....I'm 58 yrs young. I take multivitamins an vitamin C every morning. All I have had the last two years is a cold and not a very bad one at that.
And that is IMHO

A mystery reader,
Carol
P.S. Hi JB...when is the next Supper Club Book coming out?????

The thing I've been told makes this flu differ...

2009-11-12T10:23:13.149-05:00

The thing I've been told makes this flu different, is that it doesn't "die off" like the regular flu, which hits in the winter months. The h1n1 seems to linger year round. Our local pediatricians office doesn't even test for flu anymore, due to it not being a fail safe test. Too many false negatives....

Do you think the hype is truly about politics? Doe...

2009-11-06T11:07:34.394-05:00

Do you think the hype is truly about politics? Does it have anything to do with the ones who want universal health coverage? Our news said that the doctors are being told to diagnose all these people who are sick with similar symptons,as swine flu. I chose not to get my kids vaccinated for this because there is so much unknown. By the time most of our school district gets the shot next week it will have peeked.

I'm gambling that I've picked up enough an...

2009-11-06T01:23:56.343-05:00

I'm gambling that I've picked up enough antibodies from those previous appearances of swine flu that I'll be safe.

Our public school just called to let us know they ...

2009-11-05T19:53:08.130-05:00

Our public school just called to let us know they got a fresh supply of vaccine. Guess we can skip it now!

I just read yesterday that 95% of H1N1 cases are N...

2009-11-05T19:51:54.841-05:00

I just read yesterday that 95% of H1N1 cases are NOT swine flu at all, just flu. In fact, the CDC stopped testing for the swine flu in August. So basically, it is all hype.

My son had it here. He was pretty miserable for 1...

2009-11-05T12:58:46.474-05:00

My son had it here. He was pretty miserable for 10 days with a fever and cough--but he'd gone into H1N1 with a sinus infection, so his immune system was fairly worn down, I think. It was really...just the flu. Like you mentioned. His did turn into bronchitis, so he had it worse than his friends.

For us? Not really worth the hype. I don't know about other kids--I guess it's an individual thing.

Elizabeth
Mystery Writing is Murder

Having been a school nurse for 20 years, I can tel...

2009-11-05T11:00:35.579-05:00

Having been a school nurse for 20 years, I can tell you that the flu is the flu is the flu. People die from the flu every year, no matter what the strain. I held one five year old in my arms all day in my clinic because we couldn't find her parents. Her fever was 105. And I couldn't give her a thing for it. (And man was I sick for the next 2 weeks.) I do not know why this particular flu has drawn so much attention. The flu should draw attention every year because, yes, people die. But most just suffer through the week or so they are down and make some great antibodies. That's why folks my age probably will not get this flu--because it's been around before. But a lot of people don't know that either. I wish that little phone call about washing hands could be made automatically every day at every school in the country. But honestly, kids love to share. And what they share the best are germs.

To answer your question, is it worth the hype? If it makes people wash their hands more often, then yes. But it's not going to stop people from getting the flu. Promise.

lol....lemon flavored boogies! That's too funn...

2009-11-05T10:55:58.836-05:00

lol....lemon flavored boogies! That's too funny. My friend has it but also caught pneumonia so she's hit hard. I believe my entire office had it over the summer. In June we all had headaches, body aches, sore throat, ear aches, cough, chills and fever. It wasn't as sever as others have had it so maybe we just had the regular flu. Anyhoo, I hope your family feels better. Oh, and I for one think it's just media hype. My doc said more people have died of the regular influenza strain than those from H1N1.