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Swine 'flu - What economic impact?
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tourism doesnt seem that affected from personal impressions. spent a few days in london with visiting family. quite a few hotels were full while looking for rooms. even in my hotel there were hordes of tourists, getting a table at breakfast time was difficult. dont know about the tubes as i parked the car at the hotel and used taxis to move around sight seeing as was difficult moving during rush hour with a baby and pram etc. all the places we visited were crowded. buckingham palace was v v crowded where the line to buy tickets was 1h wait and that gave tickets for an entry a few more hours later. got frustrated seeing the crowds and left without seeing the inside of the palace but did get to see the changing of the gaurd. we were lucky just to have a 15min wait for the london eye one day while the next day while passing by the same place it looked like well over 2h wait to get onto the london eye. same at the tower of london where even to buy tickets had to wait in the pouring rain for almost an hour to buy tickets. so in a nutshell tourism isnt that affected by our anecdotal experiences.bubblesmoney :hello:0
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amcluesent wrote: »Also bought my FFP2-class valved masks (DIY builders masks are useless) and wrap-around clear safety glasses to limit aerosol contamination in public spaces.amcluesent wrote: »This is going to be bad, very bad...themanbearpig wrote: »Swine flu is going to have a devistating affect on the economy when the colder months kick in. Unlike the economic crisis, the government can't stop it.amcluesent wrote: »Department of Health projections put the total UK death toll from a pandemic as high as 750,000. Inflatable mortuaries, 24-hour cremations and "express" funerals could all be used to dispose of thousands of bodies in a flu pandemicdandy-candy wrote: »Apparently now they think swine flu is more dangerous than seasonal flu -themanbearpig wrote: »Assuming the death rate is as low as one of the common flus, but if everyone in the country gets it, it will result in thousands of deaths.amcluesent wrote: »100,000 additional deaths this winter. Remember the burning pyres during foot and mouth? It'll be like that (and not just for Hindus)!
Just revisiting this subject as I clicked on to the BBC website tonight which said that an estimated 270 people have died from swine flu thus far. Does everyone still envisage the mass deaths and economic standstill? Or will it be more like our old friend mewbie put it:The thing is, we can do nothing about it. Fortunately it seems to be 'just' flu, and most of us will be OK. Life will probably carry on.0 -
Lets hope its how mewbie put it! Economic impact? Drugs companies have probably done alright.
I think balance is important. I don't like using, for exampe, anti bacterial hand stuff, but in caution, (over bird flu) I no longer feed wild birds in the back section of our garden/paddock where chickens live (as poultry keepers are asked not to).
I like to have a worst case scenario in place, for taking care of birds if I get ill, for example, just in case, so that I can get on with not dealing with unnecessary worry.
ETA: of course, we don't know, and never can, whether the hystericl paranoia reduced the risk and indeed actuality of spread. Having worked through one agricultural disease outbreak I prefer to take it seriously
(if I get a bad flu chances are I'll live, and mybe lose a little weight, so, er, silver lining there.) 0 -
Swine flu had us on high alert at the beginning of November..youngest came down with a flu type thing and doing all the checks on the internet, it came up that he probably had swine flu and gave a voucher number but to contact the GP as he has a serious underlying disorder.
A visit to the local GP clinic at the hospital (their idea not mine) and the GP said no, just the start of a chest infection.
6 hours later he was rushed to hospital and admitted.
Tests proved he didn't have swine flu but he did have another close call from just a simple cold which the rest of us pretty much brushed off in a day or two (and even then we were still able to function pretty much as normal, just felt a bit under the weather) but he is still nearly a month later, getting over it.
He has had his swine flu jab now so I feel a little better but it's going to be a long winter if he picks up all the colds going around.We made it! All three boys have graduated, it's been hard work but it shows there is a possibility of a chance of normal (ish) life after a diagnosis (or two) of ASD. It's not been the easiest route but I am so glad I ignored everything and everyone and did my own therapies with them.
Eldests' EDS diagnosis 4.5.10, mine 13.1.11 eekk - now having fun and games as a wheelchair user.0 -
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