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Post by Judge Smails on Mar 12, 2020 17:36:41 GMT -8
If you are in your late 50's or older you probably have a memory of the Hong Kong Flu from the late 1960's worldwide deaths around 1 million US deaths around 34,000 I survived that one, I will survive this one! I remember Hong Kong Phooey. Does that count? |
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Post by seastape on Mar 12, 2020 21:49:47 GMT -8
I had the swine flu in November, 2009. It sucked and was the sickest I have ever been with the sole exception being when I had mono in 1986. The swine flue gave me hot flashes and chills at the same time and it just lingered for weeks on end...It felt like it was never going to end and in some of my more dramatic moments I wondered if I would die. I don't think I was ever in that danger but it was miserable. I really hope corona is contained to the minimum it can be.
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Post by lebaneaver on Mar 13, 2020 7:18:26 GMT -8
If you are in your late 50's or older you probably have a memory of the Hong Kong Flu from the late 1960's worldwide deaths around 1 million US deaths around 34,000 I survived that one, I will survive this one! Congratulations. Elderly people and others with compromised immune systems (my wife is one year free from cancer, and my eighty two year old mom, who has rheumatoid arthritis) are thrilled that you’ll survive this. |
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Post by sagebrush on Mar 13, 2020 9:07:42 GMT -8
So great to hear about your wife. I am a year and a half clean after my bladder cancer. Hope that it continues. Keep up with the check ups. My thoughts for you and your family. I still owe you that half rack. Let's work on that this season.
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Post by Tigardbeav on Mar 14, 2020 6:54:22 GMT -8
I remember "something" while in college 74-78 ish. Seems like there was pretty big lines for shots in the MU ballroom. I just looked it up. Swine flu 1976
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Post by mbabeav on Mar 14, 2020 10:04:11 GMT -8
OSU campus nearly got shut down a couple of times in the past several years due, I think, to mennegococcal disease, but this is another world. I really think that the actual infection rate is very high already, and we can't close down all vectors, we are too big and there are Constitutional legal ramifications to going too long. Most of us who are going to get it and will get it out of the way, and do the best we can to protect the truly vulnerable.
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Post by Werebeaver on Apr 3, 2020 11:45:39 GMT -8
If you are in your late 50's or older you probably have a memory of the Hong Kong Flu from the late 1960's worldwide deaths around 1 million US deaths around 34,000 I survived that one, I will survive this one! I remember Hong Kong Phooey. Does that count? |
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Post by wilkyisdashiznit on Apr 11, 2020 9:51:28 GMT -8
I remember "something" while in college 74-78 ish. Seems like there was pretty big lines for shots in the MU ballroom. I just looked it up. Swine flu 1976 Weird time. There were two confirmed swine flu cases on a military base in New Jersey in 1976 with one death. Then there were like 211 cases with 29 deaths out of Philadelphia that were thought to be the swine flu. The media and government wildly overreacted and rushed a vaccine to the swine flu and started inoculating people. The 211 cases turned out to be Legionnaires disease, which was not discovered to be a distinct disease until 1977. There was no large swine flu outbreak, but the swine flu vaccine turned out to be wildly unsafe. |
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Post by wilkyisdashiznit on Apr 11, 2020 10:00:41 GMT -8
I had the swine flu in November, 2009. It sucked and was the sickest I have ever been with the sole exception being when I had mono in 1986. The swine flue gave me hot flashes and chills at the same time and it just lingered for weeks on end...It felt like it was never going to end and in some of my more dramatic moments I wondered if I would die. I don't think I was ever in that danger but it was miserable. I really hope corona is contained to the minimum it can be. H1N1 (the lazy U.S. media called it "swine flu"). I believe that it was called the Swine Flu to easily differentiate it from the Spanish Flu, which was caused by the same virus. There have been multiple H1N1 outbreaks. For example, there was an H1N1 outbreak in Iran in November 2019, and an H1N1 outbreak in India in February 2020. The next time that H1N1 pops up, we will probably have to call it something else. Swine flu is in and of itself a very poor descriptor as pigs can carry up to seven versions of the flu that can be transmitted to humans. |
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Post by sagebrush on Apr 11, 2020 10:19:57 GMT -8
I remember "something" while in college 74-78 ish. Seems like there was pretty big lines for shots in the MU ballroom. I just looked it up. Swine flu 1976 I remember that. Working at the Post Office in Salem at the regional mail processing unit. You hit the time clock, then got in line for the free flu shot. Pro-active to keep the work force healthy. I was a union goon then. Our Sectional Center Manager told me it was not only an investment to keep his work force intact and that he didn't want to see his people get sick. |
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Post by wilkyisdashiznit on Apr 13, 2020 15:12:00 GMT -8
I remember "something" while in college 74-78 ish. Seems like there was pretty big lines for shots in the MU ballroom. I just looked it up. Swine flu 1976 I remember that. Working at the Post Office in Salem at the regional mail processing unit. You hit the time clock, then got in line for the free flu shot. Pro-active to keep the work force healthy. I was a union goon then. Our Sectional Center Manager told me it was not only an investment to keep his work force intact and that he didn't want to see his people get sick. Tigard's post got me to thinking. Ford started up the H1N1 flu vaccine program in 1976. The flu was very unsafe for a portion of society at the time, and the virus was completely contained in New Jersey. And it was fueled by a misdiagnosis of cases out of Philadelphia. However, when the 2009 H1N1 Pandemic rolled around, nearly 1/3 of the people over the age of 60 already had antibodies. I am curious as to whether that was because of the Ford inoculation program from 1976. 80% of all deaths occurred to those under the age of 65 in 2009, because they did not have any antibodies. |
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