Last Wednesday, as I stood in line waiting to get a flu swab (aka pap smear of the nose -thanks linds!) with my mask on, I watched several patients, who all appeared to have the same problem I did, walk through the clinic as though they were not contagious. HA! My body readily received the swine flu from some patient, either on Monday or Tuesday, who was just as inconsiderate. I can only imagine the infestation in that place as hundreds of people walk in and out of the clinic sneezing, coughing, and blowing their noses on everyone and everything. I'm sure if we had special lenses to detect the swine flu, you could walk into my place of employment and the words swine flu would be smeared across almost everything in the building and bobbing ominously atop most everyone's head!
No, swine flu doesn't kill most people, in fact other forms of influenza kill more people than swine flu appears to be doing at this moment, but it is sure lurking around every corner. And most people are susceptible, even if healthy, because no one has an immunity to the virus.
Needless to say, if you would like to obtain swine flu, free of charge, just walk into the Baton Rouge Clinic. I'm sure you will bump into someone there, happily giving everyone the disease because they can't suck it up and wear a mask around the clinic! It will be the longest days of ailed sleeping you will ever know in your life! And while the Tamiflu is ridding you of all your symptoms, it will knock you back on your butt because of the fatigue, nausea, and possible vomiting it is likely to induce.
It really is that easy. I work in Dermatology: usually the contagious diseases we see are rashes, yet I managed to get the swine flu.
