Swine Flu

theartfullodger

Sally: re...

The agents of the house we rent insist on entering our home every 3 months.

Write (write don't 'phone: Keep a copy) a letter to the Landlord, copy the agent (your contract is with the Landlord not the agent) stating your views on the subject and that you will have no visitors to your home without your prior written agreement.

Any Landlord or Agent who then visited would be in trouble and probably be causing harrassement. You are (legal phrase coming up) entitled to the "quite enjoyment" of your home and are entitled to exclude anyone, including the Landlord & his agents, unless there is a court order saying otherwise. This matter has been decided by the courts. However Landlord may then be no longer liable for repairs if he can't get them done.

Many Landlords after getting such a letter, whilst recognising you are legally correct, may decide you are too much bother as a tenant or barking mad and issue you with a Section 21 notice...
http://www.landlordzone.co.uk/section-21-notices.htm

Cheers!

Lodger

_Andy_

Thousands of people die every year from flu and no-one bats an eyelid..
Now the media have re-badged it as 'Swine Flu' and used emotive words like 'pandemic' to scare the masses, suddenly the entire world falls apart just because a tiny, tiny amount of people have died and a few thousand people have a cold and don't feel well..
Such a great culture we live in.
I guess as we haven't had a good terrorist threat for a while we all needed something to be scared of.

nervousftb_3

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

i take it you are not planning on leaving the house then til this is all over?! there is no logic to your question, you will come across many more 'high risk' people just by walking down the street, or are you going to ask everyone you come across what their occupation is so that you can keep your children 'safe'?! i'm sorry but there are more important things to worry about than a pretty mild strain of flu, which may or may not result in the end of the world, depending on which news story you read. if i were you i'd find something more worthwhile to worry about.

ginvzt

So, it says that 65,000 might die from swine flu. Remember reading (can't remember where though) that in a 'bad' year a normal flu can kill 20,000. It is not that much different, when you consider swine flu is the worst case number and normal flu is the normal number?

And, just to cheer you up:
Flu infects 100,000 in past week

(me included)

Edit: found some number for seasonal flu:
The government says up to 12,000 people die every year from seasonal flu.

maninthestreet

sally564 wrote: »

They are more of a risk because of the reason I gave: they come into contact with a high number of new people every day.

And yes, I do intend to protect my children as much as I can. If you read the page I gave the link to you can see: 1 in 3 will catch it, 1 in 1000 will die. Do you suggest I do nothing?

So 99.9% of the population will survive. Am I bovvered?

shellstar

100,000 people caught it this week alone, and there have only been 31 deaths so far, the majority of which had underlying health problems.

The likelihood is your kids WILL get this, just keep an eye on them, give them chicken soup and love and they will mostly likely be fine!

My partner has swine flu as I speak. He feels rubbish but he's fine. Really, it's not the plague, and most people will be fine. If your children have other serious medical conditions, then be alert, but there is absolutely nothing you can do to stop them catching it!

ginvzt

shellstar wrote: »

My partner has swine flu as I speak. He feels rubbish but he's fine. Really, it's not the plague, and most people will be fine. If your children have other serious medical conditions, then be alert, but there is absolutely nothing you can do to stop them catching it!

I think the best thing OP can do is make sure she has a thermometer and as soon as she notices fever in her children, get tamiflu or whatever GP decides. I think it was on the news this morning that the worst cases are when it was left untreated for a few days!

I got my tamiflu the day I got fever and wasn't feeling too well. The next day I was still tired and week, but I could do most of the things around the hosue. On day 5 I was fine. Well, unless it was some other bug withthe same symptoms!

ginvzt

Oh, and heat disease causes more deaths a year that is predicted by swine flu. What are you going to do about that?..

Thrugelmir

ginvzt wrote: »

So, it says that 65,000 might die from swine flu. Remember reading (can't remember where though) that in a 'bad' year a normal flu can kill 20,000. It is not that much different, when you consider swine flu is the worst case number and normal flu is the normal number?

And, just to cheer you up:
Flu infects 100,000 in past week

(me included)

Edit: found some number for seasonal flu:
The government says up to 12,000 people die every year from seasonal flu.

The figures quoted were 19,000 to 65,000.Though the media reported the higher only :mad:

As you say 20,000 is a bad year. So whats being said is this will be worse than a bad year.

Not the end of the world by any means but still a difficult situation.

The worry is that the current strain will mutate by the autumn. And there won't be suitable medicine available to contain it.

queenieplum

_Andy_ wrote: »

Thousands of people die every year from flu and no-one bats an eyelid..
Now the media have re-badged it as 'Swine Flu' and used emotive words like 'pandemic' to scare the masses, suddenly the entire world falls apart just because a tiny, tiny amount of people have died and a few thousand people have a cold and don't feel well..
Such a great culture we live in.
I guess as we haven't had a good terrorist threat for a while we all needed something to be scared of.

I have heard this too that thousands die of normal flu, let alone swine flu. The doctor on breakfast TV said that this is a much midler flu than the bird flu that circulated a few years back. I think its much over-hyped in the press.

There is no-way you can protect yourself 100% unless you move to The Moon.