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cubanlord · Joined: 08 Jul 2005 Location: In Japan!

How many of you have been bombarded with so much paranoia in regards to swine flu that you yourself have become paranoid? Between my work, part-time work, and other people around me, I, myself, have begun to get a little paranoid to the point that 10 minutes ago, I whipped out some Theraflu and drank me a dose. Moreover, I'm cooking a dinner tonight that is nothing but healthy with a gangload of garlic and onions. Seriously, this paranoia is getting me sick. Damn, talk about freaking out should I get any damn symptom related to the flu. Shocked

If you got it, would you try to treat it yourself at home? Or, would you take the chance of being labeled "the dirty foreigner"?

Forward Observer · Joined: 13 Jan 2009 Location: FOB Gloria

Last night I had two double jack and cokes. All day I've had a headache. People are asking me if I have the swine flu. People are dumb.

cubanlord · Joined: 08 Jul 2005 Location: In Japan!

Clockout · Joined: 23 Feb 2009

My school is so cool about it (at least to me.)

They've only mentioned it when they had to read me some district-wide memo.

I did hear that my co-worker might have to do a 7 day "quarantine" when he returns from the states next week though. Lucky guy.

tzechuk · Joined: 20 Dec 2004

roadwork · Joined: 24 Nov 2008 Location: Goin' up the country

tzechuk · Joined: 20 Dec 2004

I'm no Picasso · Joined: 28 Oct 2008

Had our first case at my school reported today. Not sure how this is going to affect everything yet. They were sure to ask me (in the same breath) if I've gotten my med check back from re-signing my contract last week yet.

If I got it at this point, it would obviously likely be from a (Korean) student. Yet I dread being sick less than the fallout and having to control my temper while hearing all about being the foreigner who got swine flu because I'm a foreigner and I hang out without other foreigners.

oskinny1 · Joined: 10 Nov 2006 Location: Right behind you!

I have been back in Korea for over 6 weeks but my new school still had me spend three hours running around to get this-

Doctor: "Do you have swine flu?"
Oskinny1: "Nope."
Doctor: "OK, goodbye."

Oh, then they tried to charge 278,000 won for that.

WendyRose · Joined: 10 Dec 2008 Location: hanam-si, seoul

i haven't heard a word. I came back from China really sick and my co-teacher/adviser didn't blink twice. Instead the told me to go to the doctor and I took 3 sick days!

saw6436 · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Daejeon, ROK

I'm not worried about me so much but I am a-bit worried about my family. As a teacher I KNOW I will get exposed to SF. I really don't like the idea that I might pass it on to my wife and 4 month old twins. Both kids are strong and healthy but this IS a new strain that they have no immunity against.

mld · Joined: 05 Jan 2009 Location: Seoul

The director at my school told me today that one student is not going to be coming to our school any more because she's worried about the swine flu. Apparently they will be staying away from crowds...

Chambertin · Joined: 07 Jun 2009 Location: Gunsan

Never underestimate the power of stupidity.

It will consume everything as most people are trained to be fearful, and worry when not afraid.
Swine flu persists because the economy is still shit and we all need something to worry about that is random and preventable rather than important, specific and unavoidable.

Luckily society chose a disease this time rather than a holy war or genocide. Yet as history shows disease is often a precursor to both of those acts. What better reason to wander around killing people than to expose yourself to the disease!

The best part about this is that the 1918 flu was much worse than this and little has even been mentioned of the fact it was a H1N1 strain.

Stupid is more dangerous than anything we have ever faced, or will face.
Never underestimate it�s power.

Such as these people who exhumed a body trying to learn more about a plague�.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/humber/7617968.stm
CDC nuked a page I tried to find again about how they reconstructed the H1N1 strain to prevent bird flu�
http://www.cdc.gov/od/oc/media/pressrel/r051005.htm

I don�t want to sound like a conspiracy nut but there�s plenty of evidence up to 2008 that agencies were trying to learn more about the bird flu as it was intended to be the big scare we needed, yet it didn�t spread for a damn.
Then it all went quiet and pig flu went around. It was weak as hell, but suddenly it gets stronger as the economy tanks further.

I�m stopping there as I feel my own stupid lurking in from the background.
Just remember that this is meant to scare you into something dumb. It is the flu, that�s it the flu. You get sick or you don�t. You might die, but so far no healthy people have died.

Focus on what is important, stop watching the news, and live a happy life.
News is bad, information is good. Stupid loves news.

cdninkorea · Joined: 27 Jan 2006 Location: Seoul

"I hope I get swine flu"
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=swine_flu

Hilarious!

steveinincheon · Joined: 14 Jul 2009 Location: in The Shadows of Gyeyangsan

Have no qualms about getting the Swine flu itself. Its just the frickin flu. The only thing we as native teachers need to be concerned about is getting the swine flu before many of our students do, lest we become the dirty foreigner who has infected and polluted the Korean children.

Not too worried personally as the Principal of my school saw me eating a mountain of kimchi and is now convinced i am immune. I even got to skip the 7 day quarantine after traveling abroad because of this.