Swine flu fun!

[RayvenQ]

Fun fact: Guess what one restaraunt manager in training (in college, when i was doing my chef training) thought you caught salmonella from?

Here's a hint, it's in the name

[Lace Neil Singer]

Would that be... salmon? XD This guy must be refusing to eat pork right now.

[RayvenQ]

Would that be... salmon? XD This guy must be refusing to eat pork right now.

Oh trust me that wasn't the worst of the would be managers in training at my college, how's this for bad, one couldn't fry an egg (hell, the smell of cooking eggs makes me hurl but even I know how) and another...didn't even know which bit was the yolk.

My neighbour (who is muslim) made me laugh earlier, he said that if he catches swine flu, he's stuffed.

[lordlundar]

YAY I've been properly smited!!!!

Oh we've come up with a drinking game.
Mention of Swine = 1 shot.
Mention of Swine with slight speculation = 2 shots.
Mention of Swine with mass hysteria inducing speculation = Invite Greg Crites and down a Fifth.

*joke not valid in all states, joke assumes that listenee has or will soon know who Greg Crites is, joke also reserves rights to submit alcohol as sees fit. caution, joke may cause nasal drainage and male pattern baldness.

Given the location, you'd be dead in an hour from alcohol poisoning.

(hmm, I wonder if it would count as a swine flu related death.)

[Lil Bunny]

Given the location, you'd be dead in an hour from alcohol poisoning.

(hmm, I wonder if it would count as a swine flu related death.)

HAR! Loves it!!!

[Gonzo]

The only serious part about the Swine flu is that it is a legimately new pathogen for which no one has antibodies for it (which would explain why it is so contagious). Thankfully it is just a mild form of the flu and nothing more serious. Ironically because it is a newly discovered pathogen(and mild), it would actually be better to catch it now so that your body can fight/beat it. This way you would have antibodies in case it mutates in the future and becomes something worse.

[Ironclad Alibi]

I remember a little thing called West Nile Virus.

So do I. The first crow found that died of it in my area was found in my back yard, by my wife and dog. And all three of us are still alive.

[PepperElf]

I think I am going into business designing fancy face masks....that match your clothes.



I could sell millions

Sorry Asia already has it
though to be honest... the masks are usually to be used when you're sick, so you don't infect others.

[edible_hat]

You forgot mad cow disease. Ooh, ooh, and salmonella!

and, for the Australians on the forum, horse flu. (How that one ended: some horses got the sniffles, but they got better)

[Peppergirl]

I feel your pain.

And my managements idea of keeping up on which carriers are waiving fees are massive emails every 5 minutes, with the tiniest details attached.

Christ, I just need to know IF they're waiving, how much, and what's the waiver code to reissue the ticket. I don't need a run down of every policy they've ever created since the beginning of time.

I had to create a 'flu' folder in my freakin outlook to keep up on it.



Side note: Most customers have been fairly calm and decent about this. I'm only 6 hours into my weekend shift, though.

[Just Ace]

Every day this week we have had phone calls from people wanting Tamiflu. I even had one woman ask for Temor Flu the other day

The trouble we have at work is that all Tamiflu purchases from our wholesalers are non-returnable and being a product that we have only dispensed maybe 6 times in seven years we are really cautious about how much we order. At the moment we will only order the product if we have a script physically in our hands to dispense off.

Mask! So annoying!! Everything is out of stock at wholesalers and they only carry the cheap 2ply paper masks that don't filter the best. Now the N95 masks that are the best ones are $14.95 each - thats right EACH!! And i can only order them in a box of 10 so if you want them you have to buy the box of ten. I have never had to order or sell these masks in 12 years of pharmacy so again i will only order it if you have paid for them first and they take a week to get here.

I am amazed at how paranoid people are becoming - Bird flu killed more people then Swine flu and no one wanted tamiflu and masks then!

[SG15Z]

In SA (South Australia folks, not Sacramento), there are seven suspected, no confirmed cases as far as I know (edible or Ny, can you guys confirm?), but following that...

-We haven't been going nuts on hand sanitizer, gloves etc.
-Work provides hand sanitizer for us anyway (ethanol based)
-They've also put up sheets EVERYWHERE advertising the difference between cold/flu, urging us to stay home if we're sick etc.
-No racism but given that a majority of my customers are Arabic, Asian, Aboriginal or Caucasian, that's unlikely.
-A few people have been harped at but more as a joke everytime someone coughs.

Me? I've just been following basic hygiene. I've taken to spritzing my hands with the ethanol stuff everytime I've touched my nose because I do get a quite itchy nose.

Well that's because your in Aussieland. This is America! Panic is our middle name!

[Kogarashi]

Well that's because your in Aussieland. This is America! Panic is our middle name!

::laughing:: Quoted for truth.

The only part that has me worrying (and triggering the irrational side of me) is the fact that I'm due to have a baby at the end of the month, and I really don't want to have to deal with self-imposed quarantine due to other people's lack of hygeine and such. Luckily I'm keeping that irrational side in check.

Yay for CT's cases being false. ::waves pennants::

[NorthernZel]

Then it became something of a joke. Now the owner of the company has a picture hanging on his door. The caption is, "The real source of the swine flu." It shows a kid of about three years old on some farm, leaning through the bars of a fence to give a pig a kiss on the snout.

Heh, I've seen that pic in a lots of forums

I've also seen another funny one - can't post it here due to very NSFW language, but it basically depicts Michael Jackson wearing a surgical mask and saying "Who's the crazy [bleep] NOW, eh?"

[jerkface11]

I've been telling everyone at work that if the swine flu kills them they'll come back as a zombie and that we're going to be overrun by mexican zombies soon.

On a serious note though people don't realize the masks are to protect other people from THEM not the other way around.