MONEY MORAL DILEMMA. Should you give up your night out due to swine flu?

Kerilinann

Yes I would go if I could

Arthurian

phoebe03cat wrote: »

Well, I honestly dont work for egg but now always use egg money to book tickets. The new insurance with the card would compensate you for tickets you are unable to use due to illness etc and hopefully you would still get the cashback. Combination of feeling megga rough and knowing I'd get my money back is a no brainer. Just seems a very useful insurance to have come with a card for once.

Thanks for this useful info. I just checked, and Egg Money Mastercard does give free insurance for tickets costing over £20, but only up to a limit of £100 (so preferred seating for Beyonce at the O2 through Ticketmaster at £350 for 2 is out). The plain egg card does not offer this cover.

http://new.egg.com/visitor/0,,3_111429--View_2390,00.html

This Egg Money is the only card I've heard of which offers some kind of insurance if you are unable to attend.

EDIT: Having spent half an hour googling, I still cannot find any travel insurance which covers for the "indirect loss" which Martin mentions is necessary if you want to claim for a missed event. They all seem to exclude it. I'd be interested to know if anyone knows where to find such cover.

BigMikeyG

I would go if I felt up to it, be silly not to and waste the money!

sheila_rose

i couldnt have gone any where at the weekend as i had flu but if i had felt ok i would have gone.

spankygoodtime

Having had swine flu I wouldn't have got out of bed if my flat had been on fire.

raisen

grrrl wrote: »

I disagree with "if you've got flu, you can't get out of bed".

I had flu for the first time before Christmas and I managed to get to work twice after being diagnosed by a doctor !

sounds to me like your doctor needs more training!!

When I had flu I had 2 duvets, 3 hot water bottles and thermal clothes on and was still sooo cold. Couldn't move, could hardly breathe (asthma doesn't help), definitely couldn't go into work.

A few aches and pains and a bit of a sniffle is NOT flu.
So if that's all I had, I would definitely be going to the concert.
If I had real flu I wouldn't be able to leave my bed.

moneypennies

It's completely irresponsible for people to be out and about with possible swine flu. There are many with underlying health conditions for whom this could prove fatal. Example: my partner is asthmatic, has ulcerative colitis and is therefore on immuno-suppressants + high dose steroids. The steroids have also given him uncontrollable diabetes which his insulin injections don't always keep in check. He goes to work on his medications on public transport; many people do. Those who think it's only mild or think only about their own situation are missing the point. Pregnant women or prople with ongoing medical conditions are put at unnecessary risk.

sfry

moneypennies wrote: »

It's completely irresponsible for people to be out and about with possible swine flu. There are many with underlying health conditions for whom this could prove fatal. Example: my partner is asthmatic, has ulcerative colitis and is therefore on immuno-suppressants + high dose steroids. The steroids have also given him uncontrollable diabetes which his insulin injections don't always keep in check. He goes to work on his medications on public transport; many people do. Those who think it's only mild or think only about their own situation are missing the point. Pregnant women or prople with ongoing medical conditions are put at unnecessary risk.

The most sensible post yet. Everyone else is thinking entirely of themselves and not whether they are likely to infect a more vulnerable person with a weaker immune system.

VCE_in_Fornax

Hi everyone,

I find this discussion illuminating to say the least!

I get every kind of bug going around, due to a weak immune system, and I don't go out much because I have M.E.

My M.E started as a glandular fever 10 years ago, that wasn't diagnosed in time and then because I went on to work not knowing what was wrong with me, it evolved into what doctors called Post viral fatigue syndrome, and then finally I was diagnosed with M.E, and it's changed my life forever.

How did I catch the glandular fever?
Well while I was off sick for weeks, hoping to go back to work soon, my husband took me out for a meal at the nearby pub to cheer me up, I was at the stage where I couldn't walk properly anymore.
Who do I meet there but the guy who fixed computers at work.
He looked surprised to see me there, and started joking about me being off sick.
When I said I had been diagnosed with M.E, he asked me how it started. I said a GP said blood tests indicated it had started a few months ago, probably September, with a glandular fever. He said he'd had that back in September too, but kept working and got over it quickly.
But I suddenly clearly remembered him spending one afternoon that month, sat at my desk fixing the computer, coughing and spluttering, using my phone as I was in and out of the office. That following week I was in bed with a really bad sore throat , but then the sore throat went away and I went back to work. 3 weeks later I ended up with such a high fever one night that we had to call the emergency doctor, who mentioned glandular fever, which comes in 2 stages apparently... But my GP didn't believe it was that and it was only 2 months later that another GP tested me for it and found I had had it in the last 3 months.
It only clicked for me when I saw this computer guy and we chatted, and then I thought there was a strong possibility that I would have caught it from him.
That's life I suppose, but perhaps I wouldn't have caught this infection if he had been a bit more careful and concerned about general hygiene.

Last winter I had a bad cold, after saying hello to my next door neighbour, I hadn't seen her for a while and we kissed and hugged. My husband was there with me and kissed her too.
10 min into the conversation she told me she was sick with a bad flu, and so was all her family, ("thanks a bunch for not mentioning it earlier" I thought), 2 days later I was sick in bed and very poorly for a week, sore throat, fever, headaches, the lot, my husband had it too, albeit his was over in 3 days. It took me 3 weeks to get over it.

You'll all be bored stiff with the story of my life by now.
So my answer to that "moral dilemma" is: no, I wouldn't go anywhere in a crowd if I was infected, or even feeling not right.

I find that a lot of people are not considerate of others at all: I just returned from holiday and on the boat saw a few people coughing and sneezing around without using a hankie, completely oblivious and quite happy to spread their germs.

It doesn't matter to me if it's a pandemic and some say we're all gonna get the swine flu anyway, because actually we won't all get it, but it's just a question of hygiene and common sense.

Some people will get this new strain of flu and get over it without any consequences for their health, but some will also get very sick and some will die, and they're not just some statistics you can compare to those of the Spanish flu of 1918, they're real people that could be your family.

I'm not panicking because of it either, but why spread germs willy nilly if you can help it?

As to the ticket, I have missed a few gigs because of my health, and yes it's heartbreaking, but there's always the possibility of giving your ticket to a good friend or someone you know, and I think that what goes around comes around. I 'm sure some people will call me naive, but I prefer to be like that.

In the end, money is hard to earn but health is much harder to regain.
Take care

awehla

If I didn't feel up to it I wouldn't go, like others have said if it's really bad you won't want to leave your bed anyway. I have had bad colds which are close to flu and if I had one of those I wouldn't go. I wouldn't worry about infecting people as for all I know I could be infecting people with germs every day, lol. And I do think people have to remember just because it says "swine" it doesn't mean it's worse than ordinary flu.