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Are people holding Swine Flu parties?
Posted by: Les ()
Date: October 23, 2009 10:03AM

People are taking immunization into their own hands and hosting parties to expose their kids to other sick kids.

"These are parents who are reportedly arranging swine flu "parties" -- similar to chicken pox or measles parties -- so their healthy children can be exposed to the virus through kids who are already sick with the H1N1 flu.

Health experts theorize that the rationale may be to give a child the swine flu while it's still relatively mild, before it mutates into something more virulent. But, so far, all indications point to the H1N1 virus staying as mild to moderate as when it first appeared in the spring."


http://health.msn.com/kids-health/articlepage.aspx?cp-documentid=100247271&GT1=31036

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Re: Are people holding Swine Flu parties?
Posted by: MrMephisto ()
Date: October 23, 2009 10:05AM

Any parent found doing this should be charged with negligence, at the very least.

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Re: Are people holding Swine Flu parties?
Posted by: MrMephisfo ()
Date: October 23, 2009 10:06AM

Hello everybody. I am a HOMOSEXUAL! Are there any others like myself out there?

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Re: Are people holding Swine Flu parties?
Posted by: Illegal 1 ()
Date: October 23, 2009 01:26PM

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Re: Are people holding Swine Flu parties?
Posted by: Illegal 1 ()
Date: October 23, 2009 01:27PM

(the taller you are the better). ::winks::

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Re: Are people holding Swine Flu parties?
Posted by: pgens ()
Date: October 23, 2009 04:11PM

MrMephisto Wrote:
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> Any parent found doing this should be charged with
> negligence, at the very least.

Doing it on purpose is odd, but there is no practical difference between that and leaving your kid off at school or daycare every day. By the time the nation gets its shit together and has vaccines available for everyone, most that would have gotten the bug already will have, and the "herd effect" will protect many of the rest.

Good thing H1N1 is relatively mild. None of us should be the least bit pleased about national response to this... if H1N1 had a 40% death rate instead of a 0.5% death rate, we'd lose a lot of the population.

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Re: Are people holding Swine Flu parties?
Posted by: bloody blisters ()
Date: October 23, 2009 05:14PM

yo soy numero siete putos

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Re: Are people holding Swine Flu parties?
Posted by: MrMephisto ()
Date: October 23, 2009 05:53PM

pgens Wrote:
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> MrMephisto Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Any parent found doing this should be charged
> with
> > negligence, at the very least.
>
> Doing it on purpose is odd, but there is no
> practical difference between that and leaving your
> kid off at school or daycare every day.

In my mind, good parents would have the sense to keep their kids home if there was a suspicion of swine flu in their child.

But even still, let's say they're shitty parents. A kid catching it incidentally is still a lot different than intentionally trying to infect your kid with a disease that kills kids.

Given the irrational terror over swine flu, I'm sure these gatherings are very infrequent. But still, I could never, in good conscience, make my kid get an infectious disease.

What next? Hosting orgies for your kids so they can start building immunity to gonorrhea?

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Re: Are people holding Swine Flu parties?
Posted by: pgens ()
Date: October 23, 2009 08:59PM

MrMephisto Wrote:
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> In my mind, good parents would have the sense to
> keep their kids home if there was a suspicion of
> swine flu in their child.

No question there, but the reverse is irrational (keeping your child out of school because you fear swine flu in in the school).

The only dramatic difference between the swine flu and seasonal flu so far in the USA is the name, timing, and media hype. In the vast majority of cases a swine flu infection is on par with or milder than the seasonal flu, yet with the media attention, notes everywhere of vaccine shortages, etc there is unnecessary panic that is not serving our society well.

Just watch the news tomorrow... Fairfax County is giving a swine flu vaccine clinic from 9a-5p at the government center with limited supplies (10k or 12k doses), available for pregnant women and kids 6 months to 3 years old. I would be willing to bet there are people there, as I type this, camping out to hold a place in line. It will be a clusterfuck of people panicked over a strain of the flu when we have the flu come around every year.

But I do not disagree with you that infecting your kids is dumb, I'm just saying there are plenty of ways to pick it up anyway and even if that intent was there, the result can be obtained by simply going on with life.

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Re: Are people holding Swine Flu parties?
Posted by: deadhead ()
Date: October 23, 2009 09:17PM

pgens Wrote:
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> I would be willing
> to bet there are people there, as I type this,
> camping out to hold a place in line. It will be a
> clusterfuck of people panicked over a strain of
> the flu when we have the flu come around every
> year.

I'm going with 2 cases of beer and a carton of cigarettes, should be a good party.

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Re: Are people holding Swine Flu parties?
Posted by: deadhead ()
Date: October 23, 2009 09:20PM

And I'll be selling grilled cheese sandwiches in the parking lot for $1

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Re: Are people holding Swine Flu parties?
Posted by: ThePackLeader ()
Date: October 24, 2009 05:01AM

I'm hosting a "Swine Flu Party" myself. It's located at the old Nike Missile Site in Great Falls, VA, Sunday evening. It won't last long either. Just make your way into the Siloh at the corner of the property, and you'll be given a ride home in 30 Days (if everything works out).

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Re: Are people holding Swine Flu parties?
Posted by: Thurston Moore ()
Date: October 24, 2009 05:09AM

oh shit! the flu!

I haven't completed my bunker yet!

I've been working really hard on my bunker since that black muslim guy became president, and those persian club kids are working on a nuke, and that hairy saudi guy wants to destroy us.

But I'm just way too disoriented by all of these threats.

My bunker is basically just a muddy hole in my back yard, and my survival kit is about 34 hours of Fox News Channel recordings.

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Re: Are people holding Swine Flu parties?
Posted by: Radiophile ()
Date: October 24, 2009 08:06AM

MrMephisto Wrote:
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> Any parent found doing this should be charged with
> negligence, at the very least.


Can they be charged with stupidity?

Mild, severe, whatever. The Swine Flu, by all reasonable measures, is serious.

I called me friend. He is a health actuary. If you do not know what that is, that is fine. Just know that Cecil Adams has pointed out that actuaries have to pass a series of exams that would drive a particle physisist nuts.

He said the swine flu outbreak will most likely be "devastating" and it should not to be taken lightly. "It is going to get very bad in the near future" were his words.

Wash your hands 20 times a day and get vaccinated.

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Re: Are people holding Swine Flu parties?
Posted by: pgens ()
Date: October 24, 2009 02:34PM

Fairfax tweeted that as of 2:00p they are no-wait for the target population people. Too bad there's probably thousands of doses sitting there.

At 7a there were long lines, maybe people bailed due to the rain. But if you have a kid under 3yrs head on over while the pickins are good.

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Re: Are people holding Swine Flu parties?
Posted by: MrMephisto ()
Date: October 24, 2009 03:19PM

Some people camped out overnight, as someone on here predicted.

Pathetic!

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Re: Are people holding Swine Flu parties?
Posted by: Harry Tuttle ()
Date: October 24, 2009 03:35PM

Fuck, I washed my hands way more than that even before the swine flu blew up. Now it's ridiculous... My hands are drying and cracking. I almost think swine flu would be more pleasant...

Radiophile Wrote:
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> Wash your hands 20 times a day and get vaccinated.

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Re: Are people holding Swine Flu parties?
Posted by: pgens ()
Date: October 26, 2009 12:34PM

pgens Wrote on Oct 23 @ 8:59p:
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> I would be willing
> to bet there are people there, as I type this,
> camping out to hold a place in line. It will be a
> clusterfuck of people panicked over a strain of
> the flu when we have the flu come around every
> year.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33459684

"The lines for the mass clinic, which is expected to vaccinate about 12,000 people against the swine flu, started at 8 p.m. Friday night."

Crazy. If only those people had known there would be no lines come 2p, and less than half the vaccine on hand was dispensed.

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