Swine Flu: First a light fever
Swine Flu: First a light fever, then a complete loss of fashion sense.
(University of Delaware student)
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I dunno. I hear WWI meets 90s bicycle muppet is pretty in these days…
Are you my mommy?
Yeah, that’s what I thought of, too.
Where’s the Doctor when you need him?
Are you my mummy?
euch. I had dreams about that creature for ages…
I don’t think the victims of the plague had hoses, but if you hadn’t said it, I would’ve.
Its not always a light fever as the first symptom, not that I would know or anything……… <__>
Usually it’s a sore or scratchy throat or a dry cough. That’s because respiratory infections start in the tissues of the pharynx, since that’s where the germs land first. The fever comes once the immune response gets activated, which may not be for another few hours or even a day after that.
that gas mask has a bong attached to it in his bag…
Win!
Do you really think it’s a him? I thought it was a her. The frail hairless arms with zero definition, even the first lady wouldn’t allow that. Is that embroidery on the tee shirt? And no real man would actually give a damn, this level of protection is extremely chickish. However, when I was a youth at the Woodstock Music and Art festival I actually did encounter a fellow with a WW1 gasmask with the canister removed and the hose bent up and secured at 180 degrees. A screen was inserted into the open end of the (now upward facing hose) and some herbal blend was contained by said screen. When the mask was applied to the face and the lighter was applied to the herbal mix, hilarity and colors followed.
Dude. Are you the reincarnation of Sir George of Carlin?
I yam just a middle aged overweight white guy with a checkered past (that extends up into last year). George Carlin was a demi-god, I am a hemi-demi-semi-mortal.
Complete loss of COMMON sense, more like.
right on!
My thoughts exactly.
beat me to it..^_^
maybe if the helmet was black or grey….
It’s idiots like this guy that need to just drop dead and die from something actually threatening.
h1n1 is nothing to be afraid of, regardless of what any hippie ass organization says.
Do we know for a fact that “this guy” was actually wearing the mask because of the flu scare? Or are we assuming that because of the caption?
May be just a ‘cool’ fashion? I couldn’t see the reflection of the eyeshields :p (and from the way he dressed even a regular flu will get him easily lol)
Actually, according to the article this was lifted from, he’s protesting the media hype surrounding h1n1 by wearing that mask.
Well in that case, this guy follows the path i took.
I brought a gas mask to school sometime last week. I got alot of weird looks and “WHY?”’s. My answer was always “SWINE FLU”
And of course once i put it on when some girl sneezed is when i got written up and suspended for three days.
Really? That’s harsh…
But good for you anyway…
My (very gallus) friend hadn’t attended a course she does at another school in weeks so she got called in to see their Rector. Basically she lied and told him she’d got quarantined for suspected swine flu… She actually got away with making up crap like that
They didn’t even ask for a doctor’s note? Scotland must be way more trusting. Either that or that girl goes to a school with idiot administrators.
Well, since it was “Swine flu” the Rector was more like “ZOMG! I’m so sorry! Are you okay now? Sorry to drag you up here…” Also, it’s not actually her school (she just does a subject there) so I don’t think they really keep a record of pupils who don’t belong to them all the time…
This was in the (Wilmington, DE) News Journal. The kid said in the article that he was making a statement about how overboard with the fearmongering everyone went when the first few cases were diagnosed at UD. He was making the same statement you are making about him, except he knew he was acting like an idiot, whereas you don’t.
When I lived in Southern California in the seventies, it was not unusual to see bicyclists wearing gas masks. I think it was sensible.
Why, exactly, was it sensible back then?
because the smog was so bad the air was almost a solid yellow brown and there were days when visibility could be measured in yards, not miles and the sun was barely visible as a creepy glowing orb. it was especially bad in the la area, famous for it’s inversion layer that holds the smog in.
When I went to Mexico City in high school it was like that. Just by breathing your mouth felt gritty, like you’d been standing next to a smoker all day.
I grew up in the country in Oregon, and used to visit my grandparents in LA back in the 70s and 80s. I was always appalled at how dark and thick the smog was on even “good” days. I think a lot of people today forget how much good the EPA has done for us in the last 30 years.
In the late 1970’s I was in New York City for a field trip, a beautiful clear blue day–and if you looked straight up, you could see this brown pall over the sky. And the air smelled like rotten eggs. Thank goodness for catalytic converters and the EPA!
I went to London for a day a while ago… Some of the cyclists there were wearing masks because the air is so unbelievably filthy (And they’d probably be cycling with their mouth open)…
So, just to be clear, no one has died of it? Ever? Interesting side note: On average, Americans lose about 13 people per year to Radical Islamic Terrorism. Does that small number also mean we can go back to ignoring Islamic Militants? Maybe those hippie ass neocons will just shut up about Bin Laden, finally.
portlandmark, care to explain how hippies can be neoconservatives? because to my understanding (as a former flower child) that it’s next to impossible to be both at the same time. sooo confused by this….
I was wondering how medical professionals could be considered hippies, myself. I figured we were just misusing the term in a hateful way for this thread and wanted to continue the trend.
I’m of two minds about the whole swine flu thing. On the one hand I think people freaked out too much. However, on the other hand, I wonder if no one had done anything how many people would have been pissed because the government wasn’t keeping us informed.
I don’t think the gubmint freaked out. I think the mass (hysteria) media did. Gotta talk about something other than job losses and recessions, y’know, especially since Brittany seems to have pulled herself together these days.
And I’d rather they over-reacted than went “oops” later…
Because they didn’t know how bad it might be. I think they figured, “It’s safer to over-react to a non-issue than under-react to something that could become deadly.”
the thing of it all is, is that this particular strain is a new hybrid including two varieties that hadn’t crossed the animal/human barrier yet, plus the majority of victims seem to not fit the typical flu profile, and it struck at an odd time of year, especially for a new strain.
while it hasn’t done much damage, could you imagine what the consequences would have been if it would have waited to show up in nov or dec? and what is worse, is that it takes 6 months to grow an adequate supply of vaccines for just the high risk population.
all in all, this had the potential for another 1918 flu pandemic. so overreacting? no, being prepared for the worst and then not needing it; instead of head in the sand and getting it in the @ss.
Especially since this strain will have all winter to marinate/evolve/percolate/whatever during the flu season of the South American continent. Oh joy. It might just come back as the new-improved Rambo…
my doc has been nagging at me for years to get the flu shots and now the pneumonia one too. i think i’m finally going to have to cave in and get this one when it’s available. don’t want to at all, whatsoever, in no uncertain terms, but even though i’ve beat the odds this long and never gotten the flu, in the end, the house always wins. and of all the things i could die from, swine flu ain’t going to be on my death certificate for my descendants to discover.
but seriously, anyone who is in the high risk groups (and you know who you are
) should at least discuss this with your doc when it becomes available.
makes sense now that you’ve explained it ( sort of anyway ) at least i get the continuing a thread thing… but hippie neocon? *insert complete balfflement here*
Hey! Don’t insult the hippies, we’re way too apathetic to care about a stupid flu. Besides, we can’t do anything about it anyway so, might as well just get high and wait for it to pass! *burns one down*
or how about ANY sense
You know what I think would be sexy? A chick wearing nothing but that gas mask.
Hoo-Kay!
*backs away from AWE*
A naked woman is sexy regardless of what she wears on her face….a silly gas mask isn’t enough to deter me…
About the only thing a naked woman could wear on her face that might actually deter me from finding her attractive would be a Dick Cheney mask…and even then I would just do her from behind.
Well, that should be enough to thoroughly creep out Viking gal.
WORST. VADER. COSTUME. EVAR.
Win!
Seconded!
thank you
No, you have no sense if you fail to think about why a bicyclist would wear a gas mask driving in the middle of traffic. Or have you never been outside of a car?
Not in the middle of traffic..
Even better, a bicyclist on a ferry boat, while all of those impatient cars have to turn on their engines. Ick!
you do realize swine flu is only transmited by touch and fluid exchange
I heard a doctor on the radio explaining that the most important way medical masks prevent the spread of H1N1 is by preventing you from touching your mouth with your hands after you touch something (door handle, the pen at the bank, whatever) that some sickie left his flu bugs on.
*points and laughs*
Breaks out the 3rd grader line “It takes one to know one!”