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I don't think the "swine flu" will be as much of a problem as the media has painted it out to be. A friend's kid had a confirmed case (confirmed by local physician after fever onset), and it didn't look that bad even in a 12 year old kid. She had some fever with some brief HIGH fever and the other usual flu symptoms; in a week she was fine. She did take the medication prescribed by the diagnosing physician. What surprised me was that nobody else in the house contracted it, not her mother, not her brother, nobody. They didn't isolate the kid in a bubble or anything either. Honestly, i was almost hoping i did catch it from my friend or her house, just to avoid having it in the winter season.
I have wondered if there was some reason the media was making it sound so horrible, other than ratings.
It would be a mistake to surrender our rights in the face of a bad national cold, IMO.
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