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

debbiecj_2

Youngest daughter had probable swine flu last week, had tickets to see Bjorn Again, went anyway and had a fabulous time!
The venue was an open air theatre so didn't feel too guilty.
After a brief, but high, temperature and a bit of a sniffle, she's now fine and no one else in the family has shown any signs of infection.

JimmyTheWig

We're not in the containment phase any more. Chances are we're all coming in to contact with it at some stage.
I'd say go.

pineapple

Actually it's not just 'the flu' is it.
It's extremely contagious and it tends to affect younger people.
As a new variant, not many have any immunity.
Apparently it goes to the lungs quicker.
But a few are apparently only mildly affected, so you may not be sure if it is swine flu even.
Even if the kill rate is the same as standard flu, that's DOUBLING (or more) the number of deaths. Some scientists are likening it to the 1918 strain. We are not even in our flu season yet so who knows what will happen.
I would have no dilemma giving up even a £100 ticket on just the offchance of swine flu. I have a couple of friends who are pregnant and worried sick and others with young kids including one with a compromised immune system. Oh and some of us have jobs with no proper sick pay.
I would hate it if some selfish b*st*rd passed on an infection and possibly even killed someone because they were too mean to give up a flippin ticket.
I can't believe some of the responses on here. Thank heavens for posts 28, 29 and 30!

purplefirth

I don't think its a dilemma, I know a couple of people who have been diagnosed and was sceptical so asked them the symptoms. They both said that it was like running into a brick wall, one minute you are fine and the next you are very ill and all you want and can do is go to bed.

Therefore, you would not be able to go to a concert or do anything else like that assuming of course that you really do have swine flu and not just a cold.

People do seem to get very confused distinguishing between the two

supermonkey

whilst swine flu may be no worse than any other flu, i cant believe how selfish some people are. Young children and the elderly are most at risk - many parents are panicked right now, why add to this?

happyharry_2

Book on your Egg Money card and if you can't go you can claim back the cost of the ticket! (new insurance cover introduced recently:j)

soco1

According to Sky news on Monday H1N1 (swine flu) is a very mild flu when compared to what H5N1 (bird flu) was. That had a mortality rate of 50% but luckily it was contained and didn't spread as much as anticipated.
Admittedly those with underlying issues are more vulnerable but then I imagine they are to all bacteria and viruses. there's no point in the population wrapping itself in cotton-wool.
To develop and strengthen the immunity system you have to be exposed to viruses and bacteria.
I deliberately spent a day with someone who was confirmed as infected and supposedly contagious last Friday and given that the incubation time is 3-5days I should now be showing symptoms but as yet I'm fine.

Personally I think it's all been blown out of proportion. Flu kills 1000's in the UK every year - this year they just identified the strain and publicised it a lot more. Flu always has and always will kill and the vaccine produced for the annual flu jab uses an educated guess as to what strains will be prevalent. It's nature's way and all comes down to survival of the fittest at the end of the day.

Yes I would use the tickets if I felt well enough to go.

janbanan

I would need to be pretty desperate if i was going to a concert with ANY flu..!!

nitrofunction

Don't know if pneumonia is worse than flu? I had this a few years ago over the Christmas/New Year holidays, I was off work for 6 weeks, never felt worse in my life, but . . . as I was sole carer for my elderly mother, I had to force my back off the bed, and go and do the shopping, laundry, prepare meals, etc. I certainly wouldn't have entertained the thought of attending a concert, though. It's just that even if you are VERY ill, you sometimes have to make the efffort!

tallgirld

I would go depending on how bad I felt. I would not be thinking about infecting others (YES I KNOW THAT'S SELFISH)!!

But if I felt really ill I would just accept that I have lost £50 and stay at home.