Reply to: The manflu debate

[MarillionFan]

Your whole post leans on the fact that a tabloid newspaper printed fact.

When you get to big school MF you will learn that papers don't always research their facts before printing them.

No you're right. I read the paper and then based it on the fact that no hospital has 240 intensive care beds plus common sense.

I am obviously wrong. I phoned Luton hospital and they confirmed your friends statement. The hospital has says that they have had the army set up a field hospital in the car park and shopping centre across the road. Helicopters are bringing in those with swine flu and Kleenex have backed the whole thing. Aid has been flooding in from Iraq and the UN are standing by. They have also bought in Doogie Howser, Doctor Shipman and Florence Nightingale. 2 million have died, house prices have dropped by 50%, ATW still can't afford a bedsit and
The BNP are to take over the council.

I am sorry i doubted you.

[NickFitz]

It is nonetheless the case that there's no way L&D Hospital has 240 intensive care beds. They'd have to be expecting a hundred-vehicle-pile-up on the M1 every hour or two to have made such extensive provision for critical care, and you can't turn the wards that normally cope with hernias and such into an ICU overnight.

Nor can you train the staff so rapidly: ICU nursing is itself a speciality, and a trained nurse is allocated to each patient on an ICU ward. We didn't even get that level of attention in the Coronary Care Unit (although that might be because of people like me who cope with the boredom by deliberately slowing their heart rate so that it sets off the alarm for bradycardia and somebody has to come down and reset the bleepy machine).

I don't know what your friend or neighbour was trying to say about there being 240 people with flu, but they don't have 240 people in the ICU unless they've carried out major modifications to the premises, and if they had 240 people in need of critical care all at the same time it would suggest that Luton and Dunstable are in the grip of an epidemic along the lines of the cholera outbreak of 1854.

I posit that your acquaintance was speaking of there being 240 serious cases nationwide at the time you had this conversation. At a pinch it might be the case that 240 people are in L&D Hospital with flu, but there's no way they are all in the ICU, or needing to be.

FWIW, the best place in the country for treating life-threatening flu is my local

[suityou01]

Flu: 300 people in intensive care as swine flu spreads - Telegraph[/URL]

You are so full of tulip

There's only 300 people in intensive care with flu in the whole of the UK. You really think your local hospital has 240 intensive care beds!!

Please research properly before posting bulltulip

Let's take a look at this shall we flower?

The Torygraph post something.
Someone that actually works that wards tells me the real figure for the Luton area.

Your whole post leans on the fact that a tabloid newspaper printed fact.

When you get to big school MF you will learn that papers don't always research their facts before printing them.

Truly truly HTH BISDI

[MarillionFan]

Yep, funny.

Next door works for NHS. Last week there was 240 people in intensive care at Luton & Dunstable Hosptical with swine flu.

Normal flu lasts at least two weeks. The Doctor said that swine flu is well known for running "on and on".

I try and see the funny side I really do, but just can't. Sorry.

Flu: 300 people in intensive care as swine flu spreads - Telegraph

You are so full of tulip

There's only 300 people in intensive care with flu in the whole of the UK. You really think your local hospital has 240 intensive care beds!!

Please research properly before posting bulltulip If you're still ill tomorrow, perhaps you can up your 14 weeks to 2 years!

[suityou01]

How Long Does Swine Flu Last?

Forteen weeks. The worst cases last 3 weeks, but you had it for 14! Bloody hell. You're like golddust.

Your blood must have the anti-bodies necessary for a complete cure for swine flu! You need to forget telling us on an IT Board. You need to get in touch with the medical council! Why has your doctor not done this! This is another NHS cockup isn't it.

14 Weeks. WOW! Lucky to be alive I say... You're definitely on the way to becoming a real boy.

Yep, funny.

Next door works for NHS. Last week there was 240 people in intensive care at Luton & Dunstable Hosptical with swine flu.

Normal flu lasts at least two weeks. The Doctor said that swine flu is well known for running "on and on".

I try and see the funny side I really do, but just can't. Sorry.

[NickFitz]

[OwlHoot]

Poor Suity must have had one strain after another. What rotten luck!

But cheer up, I'm sure I read somewhere there were only about five strains of swine flu. So you should be out of the woods in a week or so.

[MarillionFan]

In the past 4 months I have had 2 weeks of being well.
Post viral fatigue was the Drs best guess until the blood test results came back. I actually had 14 weeks of lovely swine flu.

Rather than take the p*ss I would just content myself that I'm in good shape.

HTH

How Long Does Swine Flu Last?

Forteen weeks. The worst cases last 3 weeks, but you had it for 14! Bloody hell. You're like golddust.

Your blood must have the anti-bodies necessary for a complete cure for swine flu! You need to forget telling us on an IT Board. You need to get in touch with the medical council! Why has your doctor not done this! This is another NHS cockup isn't it.

14 Weeks. WOW! Lucky to be alive I say... You're definitely on the way to becoming a real boy.

[shaunbhoy]

In the past 4 months I have had 2 weeks of being well.
Post viral fatigue was the Drs best guess until the blood test results came back. I actually had 14 weeks of lovely swine flu.

Rather than take the p*ss I would just content myself that I'm in good shape.

HTH

Lightweight. Did you used to get mummy to write notes excusing you from PE too?



You get more like sasguru everyday.

[suityou01]

IIRC you've already claimed to have had flu quite recently and have since been suffering post viral fatigue syndrome, hence the need to have some weeks off work.

Are you ever not unwell ?

In the past 4 months I have had 2 weeks of being well.
Post viral fatigue was the Drs best guess until the blood test results came back. I actually had 14 weeks of lovely swine flu.

Rather than take the p*ss I would just content myself that I'm in good shape.

HTH

[Platypus]

Discuss

IIRC you've already claimed to have had flu quite recently and have since been suffering post viral fatigue syndrome, hence the need to have some weeks off work.

Are you ever not unwell ?

[MarillionFan]

You don't think it might be something worse? If you list the symptoms, we can do a web search.

Better to find out all the things it could be I always say, and not worry needlessly about unknown unknowns.

You mean he may have bovine necrotising syphilatic gok-wan throat flu!

But you can only catch that it you've been shagging dead cattle while fully naked and surrounded by a film crew!

Oh I see where you're going.

[OwlHoot]

You don't think it might be something worse? If you list the symptoms, we can do a web search.

Better to find out all the things it could be I always say, and not worry needlessly about unknown unknowns.

[shaunbhoy]

At the dinner table today it was my contention that woman are actually genetically more capable of keeping going with colds and flu's as they had to be back in the times of cavemen and women as they needed to protect the brood while the huntsman was on maneuvers.

Discuss

Us fully-fledged "huntsmen" don't GET ailments like manflu. We just tough it out and get on with it should anything pierce our body defences.
Manflu is something that affects weedy pigeons and big jessies. Which one are you....................Dorothy?

[Freamon]

If there was no vomiting of blood, it wasn't manflu.