Have I Got Flu?
I don’t think so, but I’ve got a dry throat this morning, I’m a bit bunged up and I’ve got a slight cough.
National Panic Flu Service
I joked about this yesterday. But!
I also heard two stories on the radio.
In the first, a pathologist said that of the samples he’d tested for swine flu, only one in ten were actually the flu and that a lot were all of the various viruses that hang around at this time of year.
In the second, Peter Allen on Radio 5 asked Professor Hugh Pennington, the respected health expert, what he would do if he caught the dreaded swine flu. The Professor said he’d go to bed with paracetamol and a hot toddy. Peter Allen laughed at the good advice.
So are we panicing too much?
Yes! But what do I know.
I have my paracetamol and whisky ready. And the freezer is getting stocked up with home-made reday meals.
By the way, I’ve just noticed that http://www.panicflu.com and http://www.panicflu.co.uk are available.
One story that automatically linked to this post, was this one from the Washington Post. It is entitled, A Fierce Outbreak of Swine Flu Coverage.
Update – Jul 24, 2009 16:03 – If you type the title into Google this post is fourth! That’s not bad for five and a half hours.
Update – JUl 24, 2009 22:50 – Waitrose have run out of paracetamol. This post is now under the News in the Google search.
National Pandemic Flu Service
So the government has got their flu service web site up and running at last.
Who thought up the URL of http://www.pandemicflu.direct.gov.uk? It’s not very user friendly is it. As the web site is down because every Tom, Dick and Harriet is trying to use it, perhaps it should be called the National Panic Flu Service!
Swine Flu Finds an Appropriate Victim
I did think of calling this post, “God Doesn’t Vote Labour”, but then that would be against my principles as I don’t do god.
But it appears that the Labour candidate in the Norwich North by-election has got swine-flu. Is it some sort of poetic justice or an insult to pigs?
Swine Flu
The son of two of my friends, has just been diagnosed with swine flu. It’s funny, but it seems that mainly the young get it. Perhaps, Dr. Rosemary on the BBC was right, when she said that older people like me got an immunity in the 1950s.
I’ve just sent them this list of swine flu jokes to cheer them up.
Remember that hangovers are now called wine flu.
The Anonymous Widower 