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  • Not a nervous Nellie IRL but the swine flu thing coming back is making me really nervous. Especially for my 5 YO. Sigh.

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    08.11.09, 12:17 PM [ Flag ]

    • Right there with you. We can't be there every second of the day with our preschool/kinders to make sure they aren't touching their eyes, nose, mouth, etc.

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      08.11.09, 12:36 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

      • op: Exactly. Every time I turn around he catches something. So anxious about him getting really sick and apparently it goes from mild to serious very quickly........so dreading the school year.

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        08.11.09, 12:41 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

        • Good thing we don't know each other IRL or we might spin the other up :) I just heard a mom at swim lessons that said she was holding off sending her 2.5 yr old ds to preschool this fall because she's "sure" there's going to be an outbreak. I'm a SAHM and have my 4 year old in preschool and although I tried to tell myself what she was doing was over the top, I have to admit, there was a part of me that thinks it makes me a bad mom (to send him, rather than keep him home). But that's just paranoia talking (or so I tell myself).

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          08.11.09, 04:18 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

    • Trying not to worry about it as there is little to be done but I hear ya

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      08.11.09, 12:38 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

    • I'm with ya. I'm due in December and an infant can't be vaccinated until 6 mos. Gonna be a loooonnggg winter.

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      08.11.09, 12:39 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

    • My biggest complaint is the lack of full information from the City government. Which schools close and why, details of how the transmission and few deaths occurred. In its effort to not cause a panic, the government is guarded about the information, which in turn causes panic, imo. For instance, during school closings, we heard just about public school closings when I knew from friends of at least five private schools that had also closed, but Bloomberg didn't mention them and the press did very little independent reporting about them.

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      08.11.09, 12:44 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

      • Our (private) school doesn't even HAVE a pandemic plan! I asked about the policy and the headmaster looked at me as though I was hysterical. So, now I'm helping develop the policy for the school. Any suggestions or links would be appreciated.

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        08.11.09, 04:23 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

      • The news & bloomberg - list all the private and public schools closed.

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        08.11.09, 05:40 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

    • why does this scare you? Many more american die of the seasonal flu every year.

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      08.11.09, 05:40 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

      • ITA. The swine flu we've had so far has been mild.

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        08.11.09, 05:41 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

      • You are right. But this is a new strain that recently jumped from animals to humans and then spread rapidly becoming a pandemic. No one can predict what might happen in the fall/winter, and that is what is scary.

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        08.11.09, 05:45 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

        • and no one can predict when planes will fall out of the sky and it seems to be happening an awful lot lately -- but I'm still getting on a plane in a few weeks.

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          08.11.09, 05:47 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

    • I had swine flu. Its nothing. Its the flu, but in the middle of the summer. i never understood all the hoopla.

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      08.11.09, 06:01 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

      • I'm pretty sure I did too and one of my kids - it was super mild. A lot of kids in their school had it too - a lot of absences end of May especially. Unless you kid has another condition I would not worry. Media blew it all out of proportion.

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        08.11.09, 06:16 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
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