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DrugstoreCowgirl
Joined: 08 May 2009
Location: Daegu-where the streets have no name
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The flu is also spreading like wild fire with 9 confirmed cases of H1N1. The school has been sending home students who have 38.0 c temps or above but if a students returns back to school, we must let them. The Principal said that all students have a right to attend classes and we can't make them stay home even if they're sick. We already had angry parents call the school because their daughter or son was sent home. Most of them sent their children back to school.
Where is common sense? |
 This is Korea, common sense doesn't work here.
I'm worried about school closing for weeks at a time. I don't want my winter vacation to be cancelled.
A kid at my friend's school died yesterday. He had lukemia and caught swine flu and it killed him  |
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jon_blaze
Joined: 12 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 1:32 am Post subject: |
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| smajk710 wrote: |
The flu is also spreading like wild fire with 9 confirmed cases of H1N1. The school has been sending home students who have 38.0 c temps or above but if a students returns back to school, we must let them. The Principal said that all students have a right to attend classes and we can't make them stay home even if they're sick. We already had angry parents call the school because their daughter or son was sent home. Most of them sent their children back to school.
Where is common sense? |
This is Korea, common sense doesn't work here.
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So true, especially when you can tell the kid is sick and tell them to go to office or go home and they keep saying no because their parents are forcing them to come regardless if they are spreading something that shouldn't be spread.
EDIT: And I forgot that us foreigners will probably get blamed for it too ^.^ |
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schwa
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
Location: Yap
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| Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 1:57 am Post subject: |
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For those of you who said some of the students at your school are "out with swine flu", how do you know it's H1N1 and not normal flu? This is the start of the regular flu season, and regular flu may/will be going around as well as swine flu.
I'm not doubting anyone who says the kids at their school have swine flu, I'm just honestly curious. How is your school distinguishing between the two? |
Hospital tests confirm. My school (of 950) had 60 away today with "flu-like symptoms." 6 confirmed so far with swine flu but the number is undoubtedly higher.
Its virulent yes -- spreads easily & didnt the WHO say 30% are probable to catch it? Otherwise its a relatively mild flu. All flu's every year kill a vulnerable percentage.
The deeper panic over this strain was that it could mutate at some point into something worse. Might be something to be said for catching the lighter strain & gaining immunity. Or its all just a bogus worry.
Anyway, the issue is way overheated. |
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cruisemonkey
Joined: 04 Jul 2005
Location: Hopefully, the same place as my luggage.
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| Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 2:05 am Post subject: |
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| He had lukemia and caught swine flu and it killed him |
Bummer... but if swine flu hadn't, something else would have.
Illogical reactions based on fear, not an understanding of science (epidemiology) serve no purpose other to brand some as scapegoats. These reactions may actually be counter productive and help to spread the virus. Certainly, K-ulture doesn't help - "Cover your effin' mouth if you're going to sneeze in my face."
One must remember... we're dealing with a population the vast majority of who believe in fan death.
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panchotino
Joined: 16 Jan 2006
Location: scotland for now.
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| Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 2:14 am Post subject: flu |
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| i wonder if this will be as widely reported as when some of us teachers were only suspected of having it. |
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Manner of Speaking
Joined: 09 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 9:02 pm Post subject: |
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| schwa wrote: |
| Manner of Speaking wrote: |
For those of you who said some of the students at your school are "out with swine flu", how do you know it's H1N1 and not normal flu? This is the start of the regular flu season, and regular flu may/will be going around as well as swine flu.
I'm not doubting anyone who says the kids at their school have swine flu, I'm just honestly curious. How is your school distinguishing between the two? |
Hospital tests confirm. My school (of 950) had 60 away today with "flu-like symptoms." 6 confirmed so far with swine flu but the number is undoubtedly higher.
Its virulent yes -- spreads easily & didnt the WHO say 30% are probable to catch it? Otherwise its a relatively mild flu. All flu's every year kill a vulnerable percentage.
The deeper panic over this strain was that it could mutate at some point into something worse. Might be something to be said for catching the lighter strain & gaining immunity. Or its all just a bogus worry.
Anyway, the issue is way overheated. |
Thanks schwa! |
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cruisemonkey
Joined: 04 Jul 2005
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| Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 9:28 pm Post subject: |
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| The deeper panic over this strain was that it could mutate at some point into something worse. Might be something to be said for catching the lighter strain & gaining immunity. |
No. Previous immunity means nothing when a virus mutates to a more virulent form that will cause a pandemic. There is no way to predict how it will mutate... thus, who is presently carrying the 'broken genes' that will provide immunity when it happens.
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| Anyway, the issue is way overheated. |
Yes. |
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PeterDragon
Joined: 15 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 2:36 am Post subject: |
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I am off school with possible swine flu. Anyone out there with the same thing. I would like to compare notes. I showed no fever at all for first two days and no cough, then when I got to the hospital I had a temperature of 38. It seems that relying on temperature to diagnose swine flu may not be such a good idea.
By the way I was charged 55,000 won for Tamiflu, is this the going rate?
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spc525
Joined: 12 Aug 2009
Location: Seoul, Korea
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| Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 3:02 am Post subject: |
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i was off with possible swine flu, now confirmed that i have it.
sent to the hospital with a 37.7 fever. went up to 39 at the hospital.
just felt like a bug, really. i had mild fever, chills, and a dry cough for the first two days.
started tamiflu and some other meds on monday and have been fine since. quarantined in my apartment till next monday, when i can finally go back to school. so far one other teacher is quarantined, not sure how many students have it. but very likely that other teachers will get it just from hanging out with each other. its kind of scary how fast this thing is spreading. |
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mayorgc
Joined: 19 Oct 2008
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I caught swine flu from my co-worker who coughed without covering. I showed my first symptom on the 25th of oct. On mon, oct 26th, I went to the hospital and my first test was positive. i had to take a confirmation test but the results wouldn;t be ready for 2 days. In the meantime, I was given tylenol and other meds, not tamiflu. today, I got my confirmation positive result and was given tamiflu.
The sunday that I first showed symptoms, I was miserable. Achy, headache, dizzy. But it lasted for only a night. the next monday, when i went to the hospital, I was actually feeling pretty good. so now, 3 days later, I've got a pack of tamiflu but I'm not sure If I should be taking it. The CDC back in the west say that for mild/moderate cases of swine flu, tamiflu isn't the best course of action. |
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Big Mac
Joined: 17 Sep 2005
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| Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 3:51 am Post subject: |
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| There hasn't been a single case at my school. |
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xCustomx
Joined: 06 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 4:56 am Post subject: |
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| There hasn't been a single case at my school. |
Where do you work?
On average, there are 4-10 students missing in each of my classes. There are 200+ students absent each day, and it's only getting worse. In some 3rd grade classes, nearly half the class is absent.The principal will not close the school. Instead, he's making classes 5 minutes shorter so school finishes 30 minutes early. |
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Big Mac
Joined: 17 Sep 2005
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I work in Seosan-si, Chungcheongnam-do. It's a bit of a backwoods kind of place, so I don't think the people who live here get out much. So that's probably why. I'm sure it's just a matter of time though.
If it does come to my school you can bet I'll probably be the one who gets blamed for it. |
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curiousaboutkorea
Joined: 21 Jan 2009
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| Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 7:41 am Post subject: |
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My school doesn't seem to make sense.
Work in a kindergarten/elementary hagwon. News today is a couple kindy kids got it. We stayed open today despite pressure to close. Of course, I only found out kids were infected via another foreign teacher who only knows because she speaks fluent Korean.
The other foreign teachers and I taught all the kindy kids in the school while the Korean teachers spent an hour and a half in a meeting deciding what to do.
The decision was to stay open today but to close for the rest of the week (2 days). However, I and another foreign teacher still have to come in to teach the elementary hagwon kids in the afternoon.
We all know how dirty kindy kids are. I won't lie, though I'm far from a germophobe normally, I was being ultra-cautious today. I even went out during lunch and got a mask. I also went out and bought myself a new bottle of sanitizer. My school has started to provide it, but only to the Korean teachers/their classrooms. No sanitizer for foreign teachers. I buy my own. Of course, the school doesn't have hot water or liquid soap either (just some gnarly old bars).
I made all the kids use hand sanitizer. I only had to coax one kid into it; ironically she's the one who I occasionally catch muttering in Korean about the waygookin carry "seu-wi-neu in-peu-lu-en-ja" (swine flu).
I'm not taking any chances.
I'm still bummed I just gotta come in for an hour tomorrow and 3 on friday. |
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Jeonmunka
Joined: 05 Oct 2009
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| Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 11:49 am Post subject: |
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| i wonder if this will be as widely reported as when some of us teachers were only suspected of having it. |
It is all on the news everyday.
I wonder, to the people who did catch it - was the first symptom fever? Or was it aches? I am confused as I heard you must have the highish fever first.
If it is the fever does that mean really hot head or ... how do you tell? |
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