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bassexpander
Joined: 13 Sep 2007
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 Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2009 2:02 pm Post subject: Will you stop collecting homework in H1N1 gets bad? |
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Will you stop collecting homework if H1N1 gets bad around here?
Think about it. |
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Carla
Joined: 21 Nov 2008
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| Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2009 2:06 pm Post subject: Re: Will you stop collecting homework in H1N1 gets bad? |
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| bassexpander wrote: |
Will you stop collecting homework if H1N1 gets bad around here?
Think about it. |
I love my sanitizer..... |
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bassexpander
Joined: 13 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2009 2:18 pm Post subject: Re: Will you stop collecting homework in H1N1 gets bad? |
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| Carla wrote: |
| bassexpander wrote: |
Will you stop collecting homework if H1N1 gets bad around here?
Think about it. |
I love my sanitizer..... |
http://www.wcpo.com/news/local/story/FDA-Warns-Of-Major-Hand-Sanitizer-Recall/74OKJrWbeE-k49FW2QpMFg.cspx
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration warned consumers Monday not to use skin products made by Clarcon because of high levels of disease-causing bacteria found during a recent inspection.... |
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Carla
Joined: 21 Nov 2008
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| Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2009 2:20 pm Post subject: Re: Will you stop collecting homework in H1N1 gets bad? |
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Ya, I know, freaky isn't it. It's the exact opposite of what it's supposed to do. Kinda like taking tylenol to GET a headache. ^^ |
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E_athlete
Joined: 09 Jun 2009
Location: Korea sparkling
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| Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2009 2:24 pm Post subject: |
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isnt most diseases spread by hand to hand or fluid to fluid transfers?
I find it unlikely for a person to get a virus from collected homework. |
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Spanishnative
Joined: 04 Sep 2006
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2009 2:38 pm Post subject: |
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| I think it's way overblown. I mean there is genuine reason to support research on new viruses but the media is just running with this one. Kinda like killer bees. It is a new form of a flue virus, but so is every flu virus that comes at us during the winter season. I wouldn't stop talking my students homework in Korea if i don't do it now as a California ESL teacher. The virus is most potent when added to a prior condition. Regular flue deaths in the US and worldwide are higher then H1N1. Someone just died in my current town. once again, complications. |
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romano812
Joined: 09 Dec 2008
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| Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2009 2:51 pm Post subject: no |
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| It isn't a problem because Koreans are immune to most diseases known to man. |
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OiGirl
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2009 5:06 pm Post subject: |
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| If I cared, I'd just nuke them in the office microwave, but I don't care. |
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sokocanuck21
Joined: 16 Mar 2009
Location: Ansan
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| Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2009 6:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Kimchi cures all. Have faith. |
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ED209
Joined: 17 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2009 6:30 pm Post subject: |
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They could right it with kimchi.
The obvious solution would be to get them to email it in. |
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bassexpander
Joined: 13 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2009 6:52 pm Post subject: |
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| Spanishnative wrote: |
| I think it's way overblown. I mean there is genuine reason to support research on new viruses but the media is just running with this one. Kinda like killer bees. It is a new form of a flue virus, but so is every flu virus that comes at us during the winter season. I wouldn't stop talking my students homework in Korea if i don't do it now as a California ESL teacher. The virus is most potent when added to a prior condition. Regular flue deaths in the US and worldwide are higher then H1N1. Someone just died in my current town. once again, complications. |
Spanish Influenza began exactly the same way back around 1917 to 1918. The problem was that the virus mutated, and soon between 20 and 30 million died worldwide. Estimates are that at least 1/3 of the world population was infected. And this was at a time before jet travel was so common.
This is not overblown. The potential is deadly serious. All it needs is a mutation. |
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D.D.
Joined: 29 May 2008
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| Wow 2 deaths in the whole country and you are talking about this thing being serious. More people died in the last month from things like text messaging while driving. Actually the common flu killed more people than swine flu recently, but that is not a scary and they can't motivate as many people to get vaccines with just a common flu. |
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bassexpander
Joined: 13 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2009 1:18 am Post subject: |
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| Wow 2 deaths in the whole country and you are talking about this thing being serious. More people died in the last month from things like text messaging while driving. Actually the common flu killed more people than swine flu recently, but that is not a scary and they can't motivate as many people to get vaccines with just a common flu. |
Read what I posted.
It's the potential of this thing that's so serious. The mutation that would kill so many. The fewer people they can keep from getting this, the better chance they have of keeping it from mutating. It's a game of odds and chance. As I stated, the original Spanish Influenza outbreak of 1918 started just like this -- people getting sick, but few deaths. Then by the fall, the virus mutated, and 20 to 30 million people died.
There is currently a great show on Discovery Channel about this. They dug up a frozen body that had been infected with the Spanish Influenza virus, and were able to take apart/reconstruct the entire virus sequence. They learned a great deal by doing so. I believe they said the original virus mutated to include a kind of protein that made it so dangerous. The current H1N1 virus does not have this same protein, but the potential is there for a mutation because the virus is within the same family.
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D.D.
Joined: 29 May 2008
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| Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2009 1:28 am Post subject: |
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| bassexpander wrote: |
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| Wow 2 deaths in the whole country and you are talking about this thing being serious. More people died in the last month from things like text messaging while driving. Actually the common flu killed more people than swine flu recently, but that is not a scary and they can't motivate as many people to get vaccines with just a common flu. |
Read what I posted.
It's the potential of this thing that's so serious. The mutation that would kill so many. The fewer people they can keep from getting this, the better chance they have of keeping it from mutating. It's a game of odds and chance. As I stated, the original Spanish Influenza outbreak of 1918 started just like this -- people getting sick, but few deaths. Then the virus mutated, and 20 million people died.
There is currently a great show on Discovery Channel about this. |
Just like the bird flu and the last time they used the Swine flu to try and scare people. Of course it has nothing to do with scaring people into purchasing billions of dollars worth of vaccinations. Potential my ass- just keep telling people all the symptoms over and over and presto people show up with those symptoms, as the placebo effect goes both ways.
If you had tested lots of people for the virus even before the so called outbreak many people would have tested positive. I might be wrong but just looks like typical modern day news striking up fear and keeping the consumer ball rolling along. |
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bassexpander
Joined: 13 Sep 2007
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I was about to post that there are a lot of anti-US idiots around who believe this is all about Rumsfeld, Bushie, and probably the Iraq war (or whatever else they pull out of their butts).
I'll bet they'd be the first to scramble for a Tamiflu shot if something bad happened. |
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