Do you think that this might be a pandemic of a worse-than-average virus rather than a rerun of 1918? People aren’t dying in a day as they were in 1918.

Do you think that those of marginal and poor health should get some Tamiflu just in case?

I was reading about plague some years ago and it talked about the significance of the speed of travel possible at the time of an epidemic, i.e. the more people that a person can come in contact with during the infectious phase then the faster the epidemic will spread.

I see that USA today erroneously says that NZ has 11 “confirmed cases”. You can’t trust the WHO, governments, or the media (who feed off the former), so we’re pretty much in the dark. Hopefully you have a torch of the Common Sense brand.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2009-04-27-swine-flu-mexico_N.htm

I know someone who called Healthline about a migraine and was told to call an ambulance because they had tingling down one side. This person went to bed instead and didn’t suffer a CVA or anything else apart from the migraine.

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I think it is likely that Swine Flu will go pandemic. I also think that it is likely to be less deadly than our first impressions but still quite nasty.

If you are relying on government and/or the health service, you are likely to be disappointed. Health services usually barely cope with the normal winter problems and governments the world over have a very poor track record with any epidemic. Witness the meningococcal epidemic where the government response was to immunise every child with an untested vaccine after the epidemic was over…

How seriously do you take the possibility of swine flu becoming a pandemic?

If that does happen I assume that the government will be utterly useless and it’ll be every man for himself.

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Won’t know for 3-4 days. I suspect not.