Swine Flu

[Jimmy_041]

Piggy's in the Pooh

[JAS]

Piggy's in the Pooh

Jimmy that's totally outrageous...he's Piglet...not Piggy geez don't you blokes know anything

Brilliant cartoon though

Regards
JAS

[SABRE]

AHH....AAHHH........AAAHHHH...
.....AAAAHHHHCCHHHOOOOOOOOO !!!!!!
eeeuuw, yuk, sorry everyone.

[JAS]

OK chaps...panic over...if you're worried you might have this ghastly disease let me know your symptoms and whatnot...I'm not a doctor but now I have a leaflet from the Government

Apparently the best, in fact only, prevention is to carry a tissue at all times and wash your hands....catch it, bin it, kill it...their words not mine.

Oh and if you get it...don't go out, don't go near a doctor or a hospital and set up a network of 'flu friends' who are willing to poke food and supplies through the letterbox for you or leave them outside the door while they run like hell

There now...told you it was nothing to worry about

Regards
JAS

[Dog_ger]

I was worried about Pooh...

[JAS]

Don't worry Dog_ger...Pooh will be fine...he's a bear...they can't catch it.

Kanga and Roo and Rabbit and Tigger and, my favourite, Eeyore should also be ok.

Owl and Christopher Robin could be in the sh*t though

Regards
JAS

[stan]

We got some safey annoucements at work that instructed us not to catch public transport or try working from home....

Well good to see we are all panicing the same way

[JAS]

Well anyone who thought my earlier post obout the leaflet instructions was a p*sstake...

http://www.nhs.uk/AlertsEmergencies/Pag ... alert.aspx

There is no way I'm asking a couple of Jehovah's and a couple of binge drinkers to be my flu buddies...thank god if it did come down to it the supermarkets deliver to the door (for a price)

Regards
JAS

[Lunchcutter]

Doctor sent me for a blood test today to test for the swine flu, amongst other things... i have been feeling dreadful after arriving home from a cruise two weeks ago.. no nose swab was required, just testing through the blood.. gribbles totally freaked out.. they also started flittin' about with their masks on (they asked me to wear one too after i'd been in the cubile for 15 mins coughing my lungs out!) i haven't received a phone call so looks like i'm ok (of course I wouldnt expect anything else.. spose the doctor wanted to rule out the swine flu and maybe check for other type of influenzes.. personally i think i probably picked up some germ from the retriculated airplane air

[JAS]

Glad to hear you're ok Lunchy...reckon testing for swine flu is going to be standard practice with all doc's at the moment. I've heard that since airlines banned smoking the air quality has got worse on flights because they don't filter and recirculate the air as much as they did before...probably an urban myth but wouldn't surprise me if there was some truth to it.

Btw...what's 'gribbles' if you don't mind me asking ?

Regards
jAS

[Lunchcutter]

Hey Jas "gribbles" is a pathology service - just one of the groups that does blood testing here

[JAS]

Ah I see...great name for them...couldn't sound less medical and icky

All I could think of was tribbles...but I knew you couldn't mean them...



Hope you'll be feeling better soon.

Regards
JAS

[Psyber]

The company was founded by Michael Gribble, a pathologist who had previously worked for the Institute of Medical & Veterinary Science in Adelaide, in about 1968. It later became a national company, and then was sold by the original partners to one of the bigger commercial firms several years ago.
One of their recent employees was Rick Abbbot, a former Norwood CHF, who now runs his own pathology company in Adelaide - Abbot Pathology.
So all Norwood fans should tell their GP where to refer them for blood tests.

I expect it is just and ordinary 'flu Lunchie - it was just that having recently been overseas made you a possible contact.
GPs are likely to test if there is any doubt - apart from wanting to do their best for the patient anyway, nobody wants to be the GP who missed the first case in their area...

[Thiele]

South Australia has got its first Swine Flu victim http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/stor ... 01,00.html

[Dog_ger]

The young girl has not been out of the state..?

Too Late SA.

Could be trouble...?

I hate supermarkets where ferrals cough/sneeze openly

[Thiele]

The young girl has not been out of the state..?

Too Late SA.

Could be trouble...?

I hate supermarkets where ferrals cough/sneeze openly

Her brother has got it 2

[hearts on fire]

Blackfriars has gone into lockdown, apparently kids aren't aloud at school for a week.

A few of my mates from my footy team go there, they can't play footy on sunday now.

[Dog_ger]

Blackfriars has gone into lockdown, apparently kids aren't aloud at school for a week.

A few of my mates from my footy team go there, they can't play footy on sunday now.

What about all the kids from this school.

They are roaming supermarkets, the city, TTP. West Lakes, etc.

Never Mind....

Someone in power forgot this.

Oh Dear, Someone in Power

[JAS]

Bloody hell calm down Dog_ger

We've been getting the odd case here since it sterted and it's still only 109 confirmed cases out of a population of what?...about 56 million so not exactly an epidemic.

Unless your Gov is even more terminally stupid than ours...unlikely given the current scandal going on here...then there's not much to worry about. Closing a school is a common sense precaution that they do here too and it seems to work.

They've even lifted the travel restrictions to Mexico now as well and our press are challenging the W.H.O and asking if the whole thing has been over-exagerated...barely makes the news here at all.

So stop panicking and just use a bit of common sense and even if you do get it unless your actually Mexican or very ill with something else you're unlikely to die...cos as far as I know they are the only people it's proved fatal for so far.

Regards
JAS

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Blackfriars has gone into lockdown, apparently kids aren't aloud at school for a week.

A few of my mates from my footy team go there, they can't play footy on sunday now.

If your playing 15's at Broadies there's 11 from Blacks, Fitzroys under 11's have 9 from Blacks, waiting on a NEMJFA ruling atm, nobodys 100% sure what the hells going on.