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    Is anyone else worried about this? I live in a border state to Mexico so I worry about working in a club when it gets crowded. people come in and out of mexico. I worry about this, and also what if an outbreak happens, nobody is going to want to go to a strip club. ahhh worried and probably overly paranoid.
    my freakout list:
    worried about catching it
    worried about not making an income
    stupid people still going to mexico and coming back to houston bringing it with them
    and how the media is talking about it wayyyy too much
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    Quote Originally Posted by redhothoney View Post
    Is anyone else worried about this? I live in a border state to Mexico so I worry about working in a club when it gets crowded. people come in and out of mexico. I worry about this, and also what if an outbreak happens, nobody is going to want to go to a strip club. ahhh worried and probably overly paranoid.
    my freakout list:
    worried about catching it
    worried about not making an income
    stupid people still going to mexico and coming back to houston bringing it with them
    and how the media is talking about it wayyyy too much
    uh yah, all jokes aside...i'de be careful.

    migrate north for the moment?

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    Yeah I'd just be very careful.
    Do you have any other form of income?

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    Wear one of those sars masks to work. Customers gotta find that sexy.
    Be careful and keep an eye on symptoms so you can deal with it QUICK and get right back to work. And is there a vaccine? I haven't been paying attention.
    Lead me not into temptation. I can find it myself.

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    they really need to close down the border in my opinion for atleast a week. Mexico has never had their shit together when it comes to handling natural disasters or otherwise. I saw an interview yesterday where on woman was saying that a certain city next mexico city had run out of medical masks. I was going to go to work in Fort Worth this week. but now I am honestly just going to wait and see. Besides soooo many girls are more than willing to come to work sick and most management never cleans anything. I would just stay home for a week to see how things go.
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    oh yea the flying-pig flu. oy.

    I'm more worried about it hurting my money than anything.

    In mexico, roughly 2000 ppl got it, 150ish died? Mind you, these are not confirmed. so that right there is a 7.5% mortality rate, which isnt so good. However, it needs to be considered that this is in mexico, where the health care is probably not as good. Also, possibly some of these patients had previous infections and what not.

    In the US there have been 91 confirmed cases resulting in 1 death and 5 people hospitalized. The death was a small child, which is sad, but children have weaker immune systems.

    Now to put this swine flu into perspective, remember that each year 36,000 Americans die due to the your regular, average, run of the mill, seasonal flu.

    Do we need to start panicking yet? probably not. Restricting travel to Mexico is smart, but having americans freaking out is no good. Our economy is in trouble; last thing we need is people staying home and not spending money at bars/malls/strip clubs for fear of getting some disease. Hopefully this swine flu will end up like SARS and the avian bird flu, as proof that people will freak out when the media hypes things up.

    On the dark side, a flu pandemic in 1918 killed 50 million people and a flu pandemic in 1957 killed 70,000 americans, and in 1968-9 killed 33,000. However, medicine has come a ways since then. Also, if this really did turn into a pandemic, strippers would probably be the first to catch it :-/.

    No, we dont have a vaccine for this... since the virus has started spreading human to human it is mutating quickly. However, there are antiviral medications that hinder the viruses ability to replicate.



    Oh yea, the first documented case of this particular swine flu was a 5 yr old boy, Edgar Hernandez. He recovered fully .

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    Yeah, I'm kind of worried because a decent amount of customers and some dancers travel back and forth between NYC and here. If it gets big there, girls at my club would be at risk.

    I think it's overblown (what doesn't the media overblow!) but at the same time, this strain of flu (H1N1) which I think I read was the same strain as the Spanish flu. Like Athenathefabulous said, our medical care has definitely improved. Still a bit worrisome though.

    I heard that Tamiflu can prevent it. If it becomes a problem in your area I would look into getting some from your Dr.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Athenathefabulous View Post
    oh yea the flying-pig flu. oy.

    I'm more worried about it hurting my money than anything.

    In mexico, roughly 2000 ppl got it, 150ish died? Mind you, these are not confirmed. so that right there is a 7.5% mortality rate, which isnt so good. However, it needs to be considered that this is in mexico, where the health care is probably not as good. Also, possibly some of these patients had previous infections and what not.

    In the US there have been 91 confirmed cases resulting in 1 death and 5 people hospitalized. The death was a small child, which is sad, but children have weaker immune systems.

    Now to put this swine flu into perspective, remember that each year 36,000 Americans die due to the your regular, average, run of the mill, seasonal flu.

    Do we need to start panicking yet? probably not. Restricting travel to Mexico is smart, but having americans freaking out is no good. Our economy is in trouble; last thing we need is people staying home and not spending money at bars/malls/strip clubs for fear of getting some disease. Hopefully this swine flu will end up like SARS and the avian bird flu, as proof that people will freak out when the media hypes things up.

    On the dark side, a flu pandemic in 1918 killed 50 million people and a flu pandemic in 1957 killed 70,000 americans, and in 1968-9 killed 33,000. However, medicine has come a ways since then. Also, if this really did turn into a pandemic, strippers would probably be the first to catch it :-/.

    No, we dont have a vaccine for this... since the virus has started spreading human to human it is mutating quickly. However, there are antiviral medications that hinder the viruses ability to replicate.



    Oh yea, the first documented case of this particular swine flu was a 5 yr old boy, Edgar Hernandez. He recovered fully .
    Just wanted to point out a few facts about swine flu:

    For one it is a mutation on the H1N1 strain which was the Spanish flu that killed 50 million, however this one combines a pig & a bird strain as well. The combined animal virus DNA will drop our natural immunity to the virus. This is one of the things that has scientists so leery of this particular virus.

    Another point is that the majority of deaths in Mexico are occuring in young healthy adults with strong immune systems, as was the case with Spanish flu. This points to cytokine storm as the cause of death, that is an overactive immune response, which is difficult to treat even today and can result in death very quickly.

    I wouldn't panic, but I AM following the info on this thing very closely.

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    oh gosh , I feel sorry for u Redhothoney, can u work away for a while
    xoxo

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    Stay away from anyone with obvious flu like symptoms, wash your hands constantly AND use a paper towel when handling the bathroom doorknob. Those basic precautions should be more than enough.

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    this should be good for business for cam girls. Men can still have sexy fun w/o worrying about catching anything.


    Promote yourself and earn more money! This is a business that is owned by strippers for strippers. Let's make that money!


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    Honestly I don't think anyone with flu symptoms would be at the club. So unless they don't have symptoms yet it would be hard to avoid. Just watch your health if you get sick go to the hospital right away. Andd just so you know don't worry about it to much. There was an outbreak of pig flu in 1975. One person died from it in the US but 30 people died from the vacanation.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BoxOfPandora View Post
    Wear one of those sars masks to work. Customers gotta find that sexy.
    incorporate that into a sexy nurses outfit and it will look like its part of the costume...

    ...mmm, sexy nurses outfits

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    I just wacthed the news , they closed a school here today cos a girl has it, and now as I type they are sayin there is a case in london yikes man!
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    Me and my SO are also calling it The Flying Pig Flu! He is actually making blatant, crass jokes about it, but I'm a bit wary.

    I'm watching, but not overly concerned. I say bring some sanitizer to work, don't put your face in other peoples' faces, don't let customers give you kisses, eat well, take vitamins, etc etc.

    However. as anone been to an airport recently? I am going on a trip to SF in 17 days. Is it chaos? Have people started wearing the face masks yet?

    I am also wary because I have never had the flu, or strep. The only respiratory disease I have ever had is pneumonia (twice) and basic colds (last one was well over 4 years ago). I am trying to decide if this means I have a kick ass immune system, or whether if I am exposed I am truly fucked.

    Oh! And there was a vaccine, but it caused a few too many cases of Guillian-Barre for my taste:

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    I'm definately concerned about working. 95 people here in New Zealand have just been diagnosed with it as a group of students went to Mexico for a holiday.

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    im scared and im in kentucky
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    I'm a little worried about it as well. Of the seven cases here in NJ, five are within 15 minutes of where I live. So that's got me freaked a little more now.

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    300 BILLION people live in the United States. Since the recent outbreak only ONE has died. Not to say a death isn't a big deal- especially that of a child. But the media is making this into a huge epidemic and it really doesn't seem to be... We only have 91 CONFIRMED cases in the whole United States.


    The mexican health care system isn't comparable to our own. I'm sure that had something to do with the higher number of deaths.

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    Quote Originally Posted by angelicat View Post
    300 BILLION people live in the United States. Since the recent outbreak only ONE has died. Not to say a death isn't a big deal- especially that of a child. But the media is making this into a huge epidemic and it really doesn't seem to be... We only have 91 CONFIRMED cases in the whole United States.


    The mexican health care system isn't comparable to our own. I'm sure that had something to do with the higher number of deaths.
    Agreed, so far the illness has not caused any major disruption. Epidemiologists and Medical professionals are panicking because it appears we may be at the beginning of a BIG outbreak. The pandemic threat level has just been raised from a 4 to a 5 of a possible 6. The WHO officials are SERIOUSLY fucking worried, they are now saying a worldwide outbreak is inevitable. Much more so than anyone was with SAR or Bird flu (tho to be honest, influenza is such a quickly mutating and unpredictable virus this could die out without causing any disruption at all). I just don't think it is wise to treat this as if it isn't a threat, that would cause people to be lax about handwashing and such, which would probably cause widespread infection.

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    Does a ballgag work as good as a medical mask does? And wtf? is one of the symptoms a raving craving for back bacon?

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    this freak me out also but I have to work. ahh well I might die but I still got to work that's the reality

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    I think the big thing to worry about here is it mutating. The virus thread mutates and becomes something new when people do not finish taking there medication completely and pass it on. Plus it may become immune to that certain vaccine. The moral if you are prescribed medicine take it all the way through until the doctor says you are finished and the perscripition is gone, even if you feel 110% better.

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    I'm honestly worried about it. I live in Texas, and I also have Graves' hyperthyroidism. I was just reading that cytokine storm can cause thyroid storm which is extremely dangerous, and fatal in a percentage large enough for me to be worried considering an estimated 1% of the USpopulation has graves disease, and about 2% of the world. Yes, I am nervous, and I will be skipping work. I hope not for too long, but what else is there to do?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lexi_Girl View Post
    I really don't think it's as big of deal as the media is making. The media WANTS a pandemic! They love the ratings that disasters and diseases bring them, unfortunately.

    Remember SARS? HUGE media deal and hardly anyone died and it really wasn't as big of deal as they made.

    Don't stress about it. Deal with it when/if it happens
    I completely agree

    I'm officially boycotting any news related to the swine. 32,000 people die in the US from the regular flu alone each year for fucks sake. We've had what, 100 deaths worldwide from this?

    Plus, I'm going to Vegas towards the end of next month, and I'll be SERIOUSLY pissed if it effects my travels in any way

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