Swine 'flu - What economic impact?

michaels

And lets not forget the handwash manufacturers!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8171924.stm

tomterm8

chewmylegoff wrote: »

you think that's bad, try sneezing on the tube and see what happens!!

Having had a pulminary embolism in what is now the receeding depths of time, one of the few symptoms I still get a couple of times a week is a really, really dry hacking cough that sounds like I've got TB. It's not catching, but it is very interesting when it happens when I'm in public at the moment:rotfl:.

mr.broderick

tomterm8 wrote: »

Having had a pulminary embolism in what is now the receeding depths of time, one of the few symptoms I still get a couple of times a week is a really, really dry hacking cough that sounds like I've got TB. It's not catching, but it is very interesting when it happens when I'm in public at the moment:rotfl:.

Pulmonary embolism !! I'm guessing it was nonmassive??!

lostinrates

OK, well DH is home now and I have to admit, he is a bit peaky. Being sick etc. Oh well. Everyone else was right to ''overreact'' then and I'm recless, heartless and wasn't worried enough.

amcluesent

>Everyone else was right to ''overreact''...<

Masomnia

mardatha wrote: »

Well isn't that how it works now anyway ? they cant have a spare ICU bed for every person in the country ! Of course these beds are limited and of course doctors have to decide who needs them most.

Exactly. Happens with transplant lists every day! Why is it so much of a bigger deal when it's swine flu?!

bluey890

lostinrates wrote: »

OK, well DH is home now and I have to admit, he is a bit peaky. Being sick etc. Oh well. Everyone else was right to ''overreact'' then and I'm recless, heartless and wasn't worried enough.

Hope he feels better soon lir.
You can make up for it now.

lostinrates

Thanks Bluey: he seems better even today, I'm not even convinced its flu...maybe just a mild buggy-virus. Flu I think of as mandatory bed-time and wretchedness, he's just decidedly peaky.

Meanwhile: I alerted the flu list keeper I was off to stock up on flu stuff: as if he has flu I'll get it and preparedness is a bonus imo. I was asked to get a few other things for other people (many people being prepared rather than needing). Mainly this was lemsip.

And thats where the problems began. You are restricted by law to the amount of parecetampl you can purchase,:rolleyes:. We live fairly rurally, there is not a huge amount of choice but I pointed out that the majority of stuff was for my ''flu friends'' nd that death by lemsip would take a long time to ingest the stuff and would no be anyones first choice, and that parecetmol was not the nicest way to do it either (perhaps details of why were a bad idea?). This just seemed to make them more adamant I couldn't by the stuff :o

So, I've had to do a drive round (wasting money on petrol and time) on buying two products each from various petrol stations pharmacies and supermarkets. It seems to be rather biarre to have had a system on nominating flu friends but not lifting the number of products someone can buy when we are mant to isolate ourselves with the lurgey.

misskool

lostinrates wrote: »

So, I've had to do a drive round (wasting money on petrol and time) on buying two products each from various petrol stations pharmacies and supermarkets. It seems to be rather biarre to have had a system on nominating flu friends but not lifting the number of products someone can buy when we are mant to isolate ourselves with the lurgey.

Depending on how friendly you are with the cashier, it's actually per transaction, so you could have bought mutiples of 2 per transaction.

Phirefly

Apologies if this has already made an appearance on this thread - I've rudely not read the whole thread.

I've got a touch of swine. I'm annoyed how many people I know are/have been ill and are adamant "It's not You Know What" like its some sort of STD. Its July !!!!!!, course you've had swine, nitwit.