Buy/Sell (and you heard it here first) H1N1

[thatsbaseball]

is going to come into play at point this college football season. A team may have a significant outbreak and a game will be postponed or cancelled for example but at some point something like that is going to happen. I sincerely hope I`m wrong but I`m buying.

 

[thatsbaseball]

is going to come into play at point this college football season. A team may have a significant outbreak and a game will be postponed or cancelled for example but at some point something like that is going to happen. I sincerely hope I`m wrong but I`m buying.

 

[Shmuley]

And whatever ruling Birmingham comes up with to deal with it will be selectively applied to protect the darlings. Book it.

 

[RebelBruiser]

I'm not buying that a game will be postponed or cancelled, but I definitely expect it to come into play, and I expect that teams will have to play without important players for different games.

I don't know how big of a deal it will be, but I'm sure it'll have at least a minor effect on the outcome of games.

 

[hotdigitydog]

NT</p>

 

[o_hgsmith]

I have been feeling sluggish for about 5 days now and when I woke up this morning I had a sore throat and high fever. Now my whole freaking body aches!!! Sucks!!!

 

[Optimus Prime 4]

someone gets sick and misses a game or a week of practice every year.

 

[therightway]

It depends on who the team is. If it is Bama or Florida you might see a game postponed. Not that we have to worry about it, but if in late October and we were really rolling heads say just 1 loss we would be SOL.

 

[shutterdawg]

Cuz I got it. Fortunately i will be able to make kickoff.

 

[thatsbaseball]

say 10-15 members of a team come down with H1N1 in the middle of the week. This means the entire team has probably been exposed and more are definitely gonna get sick. The infected team spends a Saturday afternoon swapping blood , sweat ,spit etc with another team. So now you got two teams 17ed up. This is going to call for some hard decisions to be made.....it will definitely be interesting.

 

[msudawg12]

i believe that eventually crowds will decrease due to it. But, I dont htink it will affect gametimes.

However, Look for it to SIGNIFICANTLY affect the high school fb season

 

[AssEndDawg]

is going to come into play at point this college football season. A team may have a significant outbreak and a game will be postponed or cancelled for example but at some point something like that is going to happen. I sincerely hope I`m wrong but I`m buying.

as to why this would be treated differently than the flu that hits every year? I work for a hospital system and a couple of months ago we took H1N1 off a watch list and sent out instructions to our staff to treat it like any other flu. I think people miss the point that the regular ole flu kills tens of thousands of people a year. So far the Swine Flu actually shows a lower mortality rate than any flu we have seen in the past 10 years.

So I'm gonna sell. There is too much money in football for them to pull the plug on a game just because someone has the flu. They will check with experts and find that this flu is absolutely no different than any other to a healthy 18 to 21 year old. I supposed an entire team could be so sick that they forfeit, but the CDC has already sent word that there will not be any more government intervention for H1N1 so I don't see a higher power calling a game because of some sniffles.

 

[thatsbaseball]

nm

 

[Optimus Prime 4]

a lot of people may get it, but he's right, it isn't treated any differently than the regular flu. Well, except the swine flu doesn't affect old people as much. They are better off.

 

[weblow]

is going to come into play at point this college football season. A team may have a significant outbreak and a game will be postponed or cancelled for example but at some point something like that is going to happen. I sincerely hope I`m wrong but I`m buying.

as to why this would be treated differently than the flu that hits every year? I work for a hospital system and a couple of months ago we took H1N1 off a watch list and sent out instructions to our staff to treat it like any other flu. I think people miss the point that the regular ole flu kills tens of thousands of people a year. So far the Swine Flu actually shows a lower mortality rate than any flu we have seen in the past 10 years.

So I'm gonna sell. There is too much money in football for them to pull the plug on a game just because someone has the flu. They will check with experts and find that this flu is absolutely no different than any other to a healthy 18 to 21 year old. I supposed an entire team could be so sick that they forfeit, but the CDC has already sent word that there will not be any more government intervention for H1N1 so I don't see a higher power calling a game because of some sniffles.

While I agree with you about too much being made out of it, you are missing the problem a little bit. It is no more severe than the regular flu and should pretty much be treated the same way. The problem is it is an absolutely new strain of flu that NO one has any immunity to. With the regular flu, all of us have been exposed to it for years and have built up a certain immunity to it. Since we have the immunity to the regular flu, only about 8-15% of the american public gets the regular flu, are body uses it's immunity to fight off the virus. Our bodies have never seen H1N1 and does not know to even attempt to fight it off and if exposed, you get the flu PERIOD. That is why the CDC is saying that it would be possible for 50% of the American public to be infected with it.

I would be willing to bet a large sum of money that if effects the football season. Not because it will be more severe, just because it spreads like wildfire since our bodies have no immunity to it and it could easily spread through an entire football team in a few days time.

 

[Optimus Prime 4]

A lot of people have immunity to this. That's why people over 55 don't get it for the most part. And a lot of people got it last year, and have immunity to it, a lot more than you realize. Also a variation went around ten years ago or so, and they do to. Every flu shot has a variation of swine flu in it, so people who have been getting flu shots for a long time are also showing immunity to it.

 

[weblow]

A lot of people have immunity to this. That's why people over 55 don't get it for the most part. And a lot of people got it last year, and have immunity to it, a lot more than you realize. Also a variation went around ten years ago or so, and they do to. Every flu shot has a variation of swine flu in it, so people who have been getting flu shots for a long time are also showing immunity to it.

You are absolutely way off. Your statement about the elderly may be correct but we are talking about kids in their late teens and early twenties playing football, so that does not apply. As for your information about the flu shot, you are 100% incorrect. No flu shot has a variation of the swine flu in it, hence the need to develop a new swine flu vaccine. People are getting confused because the flu shot usually has a variation of the regular flu in it.

 

[MSUCostanza]

will kill 10 times (or more) the people the swine flu will kill. It's mostly media hype.

 

[Optimus Prime 4]

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<span id="intelliTXT">If you had a documented case of H1N1 during the 2008-2009 flu season, you probably have partial immunity.</span></p>

<span id="intelliTXT">Many people who were around during the swine flu outbreak in 1976 have been found to have an immunity to H1N1. Also, people over the age of 50 who have been getting an annual flu shot for most of their adult lives (all flu shots contain some form of the H1N1 virus) also appear to have partial immunity.</span></p>

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I've seen this in several other articles as well LINK

And you specifically said NO people, you capitalized the NO to emphasize it.

Admittedly, I'm not a flu shot expert, I've just seen many references to that. Could be wrong though, maybe they all use wikipedia for sources.

 

[Optimus Prime 4]

But I still maintain that sites are reporting that's what old shots have in them too. So, not my fault.

But now I want to know why they're reporting that, since apparently it's wrong.

 

[Mjoelner]

with you. Basically, the only thing I'm basing this on is that a friend of mine around 24 years old was down for 3 days with it. He took ibuprofin, sudafed and equate multivitamins and was out drinking and partying on day 4. He said it wasn't nearly as bad as the regular flu which he has had before.

 

[patdog]

My sister in Birmingham told me tonight that a high school game over there was cancelled because of it. It's no worse than the regular flu, but normal infection rates for regular flu are more like 10% vs. 50% projected for swine flu.

 

[patdog]

will have a damn thing to do with the effect on this fall's college football season. As weblow has pointed out, no flu shot in our lifetimes has ever has even the hint of a swine flu prevention in it. I expect the infection rates to be high and if a football team comes down with it, it could easily affect the outcome of their game that week (or two). It's not a really serious health threat, but if a team has an outbreak it could have a lot of players out (or at least far less than 100%) for a game or two. I hope you bastards in Oxford have a major epidimic for the toughest part of your schedule.

 

[patdog]

This is in additon to the up to 40,000 deaths from regular flu. But in terms of effect on this fall's college football season, the number of deaths is pretty much irrevalent. Infection rates for normal flu are about 10% per year. Projected infection rate for swine flu is 50% (this is in addition to the 10% from the normal flu).</p>