Swine Flu may keep us from getting on a plane now

astral

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Wed Jul-22-09 11:07 PM
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Swine Flu may keep us from getting on a plane now

Oh, that sounds fine to you I am sure, and I suppose if it was known someone had the swine flu maybe they would want to take action. But having the flu of any kind, or any kind of sniffles or cough, for that matter, can get you pulled out of line and forced to prove through a doctor that you don't have the swine flu before you are allowed to continue in your travels.

I remember hearing many years ago (approximately 1981) alot of things that were predicted that are happening right now, including the notion that allowing people freedom to travel around freely, even within their own country, was not going to be allowed to continue by those in power.

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stray cat

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Thu Jul-23-09 07:29 AM
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1. I was at a meeting overseas - felt bad and coughed the whole overseas flight

realized later three of us had been exposed to H1N1 at the meeting -between three of us we may have exposed the entire plane. I'm sure those I exposed then gave it to others - maybe some of those exposed are more susceptible and could have really got sick. In other words, if your seatmate is coughing next to you for 8 hours - you may now have the flu, even antibiotic resistant tuberculosis.

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Thu Jul-23-09 07:38 AM
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2. Its a pandemic. 700 people in this country have died.

I think you would like to avoid another deadly flu outbreak like 1918 when millions of people died? And back then, mass air transit wasn't even a factor. Sorry, but when one person puts WHOLE GROUPS OF PEOPLE at risk, then yes, I support certain quarantine measures.
I seriously suggest you read about the so called "Spanish flu". This isn't being done to curtail your rights. Its being done for health reasons.:eyes:
Of course this is all at the WHO's request and we all know those Swiss immunologists want nothing better than to be world dictators..:sarcasm:

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Obama2012

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Thu Jul-23-09 07:50 AM
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3. I don't want people with colds or regular flu on a plane with me either

If you're sick, stay the fuck off the plane.

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NJmaverick

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Thu Jul-23-09 09:40 AM
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4. This is a tough one

planes recirculate too much air. Any ill passengers are going to expose the entire plane to their germs. So keeping them off is a very good thing. On the other hand if you get sick while away, being forced to stay in a far away land, while sick, for roughly 7 days isn't exactly a good thing. This issue is a tough call.

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MineralMan

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Thu Jul-23-09 09:46 AM
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5. Well, people with the flu generally feel way too sick to

travel. Worse, though, people who are contracting the flu are infectious before the symptoms hit them, and they can start coughing, etc. on the plane, even if they felt OK when they boarded.

Coughing and sneezing are symptoms of so many things that this will be very, very difficult to enforce. A better check is body temperature. One of those forehead-style thermometers could be used as a screening tool to much better effect than symptomatic screening.

I've never been on a plane where a few people weren't coughing and sneezing. Chronic bronchitis, allergies!, and other things can cause those obvious symptoms.

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