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Originally Posted by CSharp
My co-worker caught the H1N1 virus back in the day when the Bird Flu struck North America and he didn't even travel outside of Canada. Funny thing was, his wife didn't catch it. And he said it was just like catching the cold.
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Excellent anecdote. Take it from me, who was working as a flight medic during H1N1, that your buddy saying it was "a cold" is a pretty stark contrast to the individuals I dealt with. This is the misinformation that can make people complacent, or even defiant in an effort to prove that "its nothing". Absolutely there will be varying degrees of severity, nobody is disputing that. But until you know what YOUR body will do, why be dumb about it? The fact is there ARE people who are quite sick, they are not easy patients to manage and many of them do fail to survive, and if you compound that with unsustainable numbers of these people to where the point managing them becomes impossible, you're just as F'd. I'm healthy, I'm young, but I'm very much at risk in frontline healthcare, and there's not a chance I want to catch this because I know how this song plays out in a certain % of cases.