The Bama / VPI pillowfight...

This is going to be an ongoing thing all season. Every team is going to have some problems. It's just a matter of which players, how many at a time, and who is next up on the schedule.
 
PJisthenewCJ said:
Ignorant. One of my parents friends died from swine flu and now over 100 students on campus have it...myself included. Way to try to be funny and come out looking like a jackass.
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Way to take a cheap shot. I'm sure he wouldn't have said that had he known that someone on the board had suffered a personal loss from the disease.

But when the media splashes 90,000 DEATHS expected then every doctor interviewed says that the number of expected fatalities is a small percentage of that then there is some merit to the assertion that the media is sensationalizing the illness.
 
00Burdell said:
Way to take a cheap shot. I'm sure he wouldn't have said that had he known that someone on the board had suffered a personal loss from the disease.

But when the media splashes 90,000 DEATHS expected then every doctor interviewed says that the number of expected fatalities is a small percentage of that then there is some merit to the assertion that the media is sensationalizing the illness.
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Couldn't have said it better myself. Thanks man..
 
PJisthenewCJ said:
Ignorant. One of my parents friends died from swine flu and now over 100 students on campus have it...myself included. Way to try to be funny and come out looking like a jackass.
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You do know people die of flu every year. Every year we have a new flu strain and every year people don't have immunity. The real ignorance is people believing in this over hyped "crisis". From the CDC,

"Each flu season is unique, but it is estimated that, on average, approximately 5% to 20% of U.S. residents get the flu, and more than 200,000 persons are hospitalized for flu-related complications each year. About 36,000 Americans die on average per year from the complications of flu."

I hope you get well soon.
 
PJisthenewCJ said:
One of my parents friends died from swine flu and now over 100 students on campus have it...myself included.
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Tell about its effect on you; i.e., can you still get out, go to class, temperature, cough, length of time to get over it, etc.?
 
Essobee said:
Tell about its effect on you; i.e., can you still get out, go to class, temperature, cough, length of time to get over it, etc.?
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No class. Health Center asked me to stay isolated for 5 days. The symptoms aren't worse than any normal flu, but I have heard that the real danger is to people with aggravating conditions (asthma, allergies, etc.).

By the way, I didn't mean to sound like such a jerk. Frustrated by my diagnosis today and such. Also a bit nervous...with the outbreak on campus, this really has the potential to decimate our football team (and students, in general) and throw a huge setback into the great season we are all hoping for.
 
I've had aches since Tuesday, fever since Wednesday. Peak temperature of 102.1F. No cough, but a sore throat. I am physically capable of going out, but I'm trying to limit my exposure to other folks and not get them sick. I'm not better yet, so I can't give you a duration really.

In talking to my doctor, he told me that, put simply, more people are catching this strain of the flu, especially in America, than your average new mutation in the virus. He told me that the percentage of (people who die from H1N1/people who contract it) actually is lower than your average influenza 'bug'.
 
SeePops said:
I've had aches since Tuesday, fever since Wednesday. Peak temperature of 102.1F. No cough, but a sore throat. I am physically capable of going out, but I'm trying to limit my exposure to other folks and not get them sick. I'm not better yet, so I can't give you a duration really.

In talking to my doctor, he told me that, put simply, more people are catching this strain of the flu, especially in America, than your average new mutation in the virus. He told me that the percentage of (people who die from H1N1/people who contract it) actually is lower than your average influenza 'bug'.
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Could you play football? What was it that Reggie had when he had to miss the UConn game?
 
gth816f said:
Could you play football? What was it that Reggie had when he had to miss the UConn game?
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I could almost play in this condition, but I'd be slow and fatigue easily, so unless there is no one backing me up, or I'm Michael Jordan, I think I would have to sit out.
 
PJisthenewCJ said:
No class. Health Center asked me to stay isolated for 5 days. The symptoms aren't worse than any normal flu, but I have heard that the real danger is to people with aggravating conditions (asthma, allergies, etc.).

By the way, I didn't mean to sound like such a jerk. Frustrated by my diagnosis today and such. Also a bit nervous...with the outbreak on campus, this really has the potential to decimate our football team (and students, in general) and throw a huge setback into the great season we are all hoping for.
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The real danger with any flu is in people with aggravating conditions. IMO, the only additional problem with swine flu is the lack of a vaccine for it now which leaves those at high risk (elderly, high risk conditions, health care workers) unable to be vaccinated and susceptible to contracting the full blown flu. It is a real concern that with an outbreak in a hospital it could cause severe workforce problems.
 
My little brother got h1n1 this summer. Actually, about a third of the camp he was at ended up getting it. No big deal for any of them, just a few days in the "containment" bunk and then back to normal life.
 
SeePops said:
I've had aches since Tuesday, fever since Wednesday. Peak temperature of 102.1F. No cough, but a sore throat. I am physically capable of going out, but I'm trying to limit my exposure to other folks and not get them sick. I'm not better yet, so I can't give you a duration really.

In talking to my doctor, he told me that, put simply, more people are catching this strain of the flu, especially in America, than your average new mutation in the virus. He told me that the percentage of (people who die from H1N1/people who contract it) actually is lower than your average influenza 'bug'.
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Of course this is all speculation and modeling so far. They do expect more deaths of people who would not normally die from seasonal flu. The issue seems to be that when this one hits hard it hits very hard and there have been deaths in groups that normally don't suffer much from seasonal flu...younger (not children but young adults) and people with no other health condition. Nothing to panic about, but also nothing to ignore or take too lightly.
 
GTSurgery said:
The real danger with any flu is in people with aggravating conditions. IMO, the only additional problem with swine flu is the lack of a vaccine for it now which leaves those at high risk (elderly, high risk conditions, health care workers) unable to be vaccinated and susceptible to contracting the full blown flu. It is a real concern that with an outbreak in a hospital it could cause severe workforce problems.
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Well, sorta, but that's not the full story. The reason the media has picked up on the H1N1 story (and the reason the CDC is taking this threat so seriously) is the danger of "genetic shift," or the H1N1 flu trading one or more genes with another strain of flu in a co-infected individual. This is contrasting with what normally occurs during and between flu seasons: "genetic drift," or slight mutations in hemagglutinin that disrupt our immune system's ability to recognize the virus.

Swine flu, in its current form, isn't more dangerous to immuno-compromised individuals than any other strain of flu would be, but the threat of large-scale (genetic shift) mutation is the reason for the attention. It's hypothesized that the same sort of mutation was behind the 1918 spanish flu epidemic that killed millions.

I digress... I hope that the vaccine is disseminated promptly, and that this flu season is better than normal, rather than worse.
 
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