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Originally Posted by Schultzie

I still haven't got the shot, so I ended up catching H1N1 about two days ago. I'm laid up in bed with a fever, cough, sore throat, headache, and my eyes are also burning like crazy, but it really doesn't seem any worse than the regular flu to me. Hopefully I'll start feeling better in the next couple of days, but if this is as bad as it gets, I don't understand what all the fuss was about.

Originally Posted by Devils'Advocate

Did you even read the thread?

1) No, this flu isn't much worse than the normal flu.
2) The fuss the government made was about just how contagious the virus is and how many people did get and how many people WOULD get it if people were not smart enough to get the vaccine.
3) The press did sensationalize the story and focused on the few deaths, particularly of young people, to sell newspapers and such. This made people think that it was a terribly dangerous flu when in fact severe reactions are very rare and for most people it was equal to or even less than the normal flu.

Yeah, except it's been well documented that this flu affects people with pre-existing conditions a lot more readily than the normal seasonal flu. So first of all, I don't understand the original poster saying he doesn't know what the fuss is all.