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

robpw2

if you have had swine flu you would know that its unlikely you would be able to muster up the energy to go out

SpikyCactus

I spend half of the winter months with various colds etc that I pick up from people at gigs anyway, so I'd go if I could manage it. It's just another bug. A few people will get really sick or die from it (which is really sad), but then again a few people will get run over when travelling to a gig, or catch something else when they are there which makes them sick or worse. Occupational hazzard of gigs and life in gerenal!

DMDz

Already had swine flu, and it was 2 days of feeling under the weather and about a week of having no energy - certainly nothing to worry about. So, id end up going cause I couldn't get it twice!

But in my house everyone ended up getting it, so very contagious...

heehaw

not a chance, i'm convinced i ended up with swine flu after going to an elton john concert, never been so ill in all my life. i suffered and suffered knowing i had a take that concert the following week, had beyond zero energy, lost a stone that week, was so ill but still determined i was going to take that. that was the 1st day i'd been out the house, i was going whether i was ill or not! jelly legs managed to hold me up for the duration! excellent!
if you're gonna get it, you're gonna get it, could have it and not even know, my dr said i had viral gastroenteritis, probably just to avoid the testing.

jacks_echo

I had pretty severe flu around christmas 2007 and went to see the manic street preachers, the flu turned into Pneumonia and I still went back to see them again the week after. I knew I felt like death but for the money the tickets cost us the only way I wasn't going was if I physically collapsed before I got there even after having lung problems from the pneumonia for the better part of a year I'd still say it was still worth it.

I'm pretty much waiting to catch it now, I'm just hoping if I do I'll get it before September so I don't end up having to cough and splutter my way through my first press pass and ruin the entire experience feeling like death warmed up.

donna_beddows

I wouldn't go regardless at the moment, because...

I agree that for most people it's just like normal flu/cold, however, if I was to go to the concert not actually having swine flu, then to catch swine flu and pass it onto my pregnant friend or my mum who has a huge number of illnesses/health issues I would feel awful, as for them it could be so much more serious!

or if I went to the concert with suspected swine flu, I may then pass it onto someone else- maybe they have health issues, or maybe they will pass it onto someone they know who has!

It would be selfish to just go anyway and only consider yourself, that's my take on this, anyway.

gb57

If everyone coughed/sneezed into a tissue and washed their hands regularly (particularly when they have a cold) then there would be a lot fewer colds around and a lot less passing of flu germs (swine or ordinary).

It is difficult to believe that people need to be told to cough into a tissue rather than over everyone else, but I have sat, countless times, on tubes and trains with people openly sneezing/coughing without even a hand in front of their mouth:eek:. YUK! Even if they do put a hand in front of their mouth, of course that hand is going to be used on door handles etc.

If I could believe that an infected person (who might in the early stages still feel like going out) would follow the guidelines then I might not object to them going to their concert. Not if they are going to cough and splutter over everyone else, though.

I don't believe in obsessive cleanliness (all this anti-bacterial stuff), as I do think that people of my age who played in the dirt as kids and put all sorts of strange things in their mouths did build up a better resistance to germs/allergies etc. (Just look at how many children now have asthma and all sorts of allergies). HOWEVER, with colds/flu, keep them to yourself, don't be giving them to others (how do you know whether the person next to you has a compromised immune system?).

kate83

I am sick of everyone saying that if you had flu, then you wouldn't be able to move out of bed - how do you know? Have you seen the swab results of everyone who says they have mild symptoms?
Just because you got that ill with flu, doesn't mean that everybody does - a friend of mine got a positive result of swine flu from a swab, and yet would have been at work just thinking they had a bit of a cold if they hadn't had one done, the only symptoms she had were a sore throat, stuffy nose, felt drained and a bit of a fever (what most people would call a cold). She was only swabbed because her child had quite bad symptoms.
I think I've had it (but they were no longer swabbing) and I barely moved off the sofa for three days but my toddler daughter only caught it as a runny nose, slight temperature and upset tum. My partner was tired, with sore throat and fever which turned into a chest infection- everyone get's it differently.

Personally, I would go if I was feeling well enough and wasn't coughing/sneezing too much, they're not shutting schools anymore as they believe there's no point.
However, if I was in an at risk group, then I'd be staying away from a large crowded enclosed gig where I was in such close contact with people anyway.

Jennikay

I went to a Nickelback concert when I was in the early stages of glandular fever. Glad I did, too

I wore shades the whole time because my eyes were swollen :cool:

Lynndeou

Had tickets booked for Madness on FrI 17th July - was actually dianosed with this flu on the Tuesday beforehand, and believe me I did not want to get out of bed and could not have gone too far if I had. Paid for tickets on Credit Card as a 50th Pressie for my other ½. Rang CC company and told them that the Doctor had advised that I DO NOT go out, they were sympathetic but could not/would not help. Rang Ticketmaster who were also very helpful and said they would try their best to get me a refund esp as I was under Doctors instructions. They failed and told me that the promoter had refused., and that I had to take the matter up directly with them Have e-mailed promotor twice now no repsonse. I am still feeling pretty lousy after this flu (beware you can have post viral symptoms for weeks afterwards) and do not need this hassle re the refund. So I say thanks to Ticketmaster for trying and a big thumbs dowwnto AEG live who have not even bothered to repsond to me. So would I give up my big night out - NO, but if I felt as bad as I did I really would have no choice but to stay in bed.