Tess
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**SWINE FLU WARNING**I am probably fine, but there has been someone taken off work in my team with suspected swine flu, and I have a bad cold. It is probably nothing, but if you need to be careful you might wanna avoid weapon practice this saturday
Also, if anyone has vulnerables in thier family and would rather I did not show up on Monday let me know.
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paz
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If you're serious, I have a small child and a wife who's 8-months pregnant, so I could do without swine flu at the moment.
I thought the incubation period was 48 hours or something - won't you know by then, one way or another? (hopefully the good way)
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metagaia
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Even if it's 'just' a cold it doesn't make you feel any better 
Given they don't test for swine flu unless it's serious, then it would be hard to say. By the sounds of it though you're gonna be fine 
Hope you feel better soon 
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Gileh
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I don't have swine flu but don't want to go into work for a couple of weeks. So feel free to sneeze/breathe/drape yourself seductively on me.
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ian jones
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Re: **SWINE FLU WARNING** | Tess wrote: | It is probably nothing, but if you need to be careful you might wanna avoid weapon practice this saturday
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tess sorry to be a stuck in the mud, but maybe YOU should stay in confinement not all your friends?
personally i don't believe that swine flu is anywhere near what the media make out as the symptons are the same as common flu that effects a lot humans anyhow. (and also kills people)
can't you or one of your characters mix up a magic potion? i can get hair of cat and eye of newt if required?
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Haskeer
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5 people taken out of work with it.
ive got sniffles.
ah well.
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dead
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Re: **SWINE FLU WARNING**[/quote] tess sorry to be a stuck in the mud, but maybe YOU should stay in confinement not all your friends?
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Er she cant cause we are going to her house to practice
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Mingan
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Personally I don't think the swine flu is medically hugely relevant unless you belong to one of the risk-groups.
Having said that I have an upcoming trip, and should I catch it and trip one of the airport temperature sensors (many countries make you walk infront of an IR camera to check your temperature) I will be grabbed by people in white and put into quarantine. Not a hugely fun experience,especially in some of the more totalitarian backwaters I have to visit.
So, I'd rather not go out of my way to catch it I don't ofcourse want to restrict anyone's movements, so if someone who is still in the infectious stage wants to come along, I'll stay away.
Or we could institute a PC policy whereby all those infected are forced to walk around fully swathed in cloth, ringing a small bell and shouting "Unclean, unclean" to give fair warning.
I would be ok with that )
Chris
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Tess
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Re: **SWINE FLU WARNING** | dead wrote: | | ian jones wrote: | tess sorry to be a stuck in the mud, but maybe YOU should stay in confinement not all your friends?
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Er she cant cause we are going to her house to practice |
Thanks hun, I was rather confused by the comment myself!! Yes, weapons practice is ay my house, so I will still basically be in my own confinement, just allowing others to enter it.
As it is my temperature is below the threshold point for NHS direct to be worried about it. So in all likelihood it is just a cold, but better safe than sorry.
I will miss club monday just in case as the incubation period is 7 days so noone has to worry about my sneezing.
xxx
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Mingan
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I'm a bit hurt you would dismiss my shroud and bell idea so glibly! <pouts>
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Haxar
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C'mon, it's Chester. People in historical costume attract attention, you want to infect everyone?
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ian jones
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tess didn't mean that to sound offensive, if it did. obviously i didn't know weapons practise was at yours. so i see your point in making everybody aware.
pls ignore me i was having a blonde moment.
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dead
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| ian jones wrote: |
pls ignore me i was having a blonde moment. |
Its ok, we all know you 
Ian
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galvatrons funky uncle
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While i was at an event this weekend, a little toddler got flu in our camp, and as a precaution the on site medics checked her out, and recommended she be sent home, (again just as a precaution).
we were all warned that it could be swine flu, and it might just be flu, or a cold. we were all warned about it, but two of the people in my faction work in the nhs, one as an anaesthetist nurse, and the other as a GP.
and they said that the swine flu thing, is very much blown out of proportion, and it could just be a perfectly normal case of the flu, or a cold. so i wouldnt worry tess.
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Tess
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i would generally agree, and think what I have (but am mostly over) is more likely a cold, but as a memeber of my team - who sits one person away from me at work - was sent home with the ol' swiney I felt it was only fair that people are given the option of not being in contact.
I'm a strong believer that for most people swine flu will barely register on the illness scale, however with so many club members with new babies or pregnant wives it is sensible to be cautious.
see you all next week
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dead
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The girl I sit next to has been sent home with a "cold". Most places get anti septic wipes, we get paper towels.
Ian
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Tess
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we had nothing at all for 3 days after our guy was sent home, and then only cos we kicked up a fuss!
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Haxar
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Similar at my place, one guy was quite clearly ill with something but couldn't go off sick because he wouldn't get sick pay and couldn't afford it. It was only when someone pointed out we could be prosecuted for that that HR graciously said he could do his work from home instead. Nice...
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