I got sent home for swine flu quarantine.
 

I went to Mexico for my vacation. So I come back to work on Monday spoke to all my friends blah blah you know the drill. Apparently someone got sick at Earnest & Young in the city, I dont work for Earnst & Young but basically that lit a fuse and all the various companies in the city are now shit scared. My companies business continuity department basically said "if you recently went to mexico you are now on 5 days quarantine". Someone spilled the beans and they found out I was there. I get a call to go home for 5 days.

How bout them apples, 5 more days of paid vacation and I dont even have to use my days.

fuck you.

See whats retarded is I have been at work since monday, its a bit to late for action. I have been in contact with a ton of people.

Too late for action but not too late to cover their ass. That way they can say they acted as soon as practical. No widows can win a lawsuit if someone would die.

i second this motion.

Im reading this while getting ready for work.....U suck!! lol

+1 You suck. At least use the time to do something cool with your car.

I work with border jumpers every day. This swine flu thing does not bother me at all. But it is the governments latest thing to draw attention away from administration.

I shall be sitting in my Miata with tin foil hat, and watching for black helicopters http://www.juot.net/forums/images/smilies/oac.gif

Sounds SWEET MAN!

I think they are going a little overboard with this thing.

If it was like the BIRD FLEW in 1918. Where you where fine, kissed your wife good bye for work, and 3 hrs later DEAD! yea.

I would be scared. But This isn't like that. But I guess if it is worse than the regular flew. Heck yea, shut it down.

The mortality rate from the 1918 influenza was 2.5-5%. Mexico is showing a mortality rate of 6% with this strain. We will not see this high mortality rate in the U.S.A. or in any developed nation, antiviral drugs are to readily available. It is the 3rd world countries with insufficient medical care, and lack of proper drugs that will bear the brunt of this coming pandemic.

Little known fact here:

Source: Center for Disease Control: CDC - Influenza (Flu) | Q & A: The Disease


Might be inclined to agree its being thrown out of whack for political reasons..

Let us not forget about the Flu "Epidemic" of 1976..

http://www.capitalcentury.com/1976.html

One man died of the Flu, HUNDREDS more died from the Vaccination the government peddled, hundreds were paralyzed, many left very ill..

I got nothing. Im done.

Pretty much my sentiments about this whole thing.

Govt is just adding more reasons to make our economy suck even worse.

Doesn't bother me much, in developed nations like ours there isn't much to worry about, especially if you're never sick, like me. Various illnesses have gone around my classroom 4 times since last August, and I've been fine each time, my classmates are jealous. :D

take advantage of the cheap airfares and empty flights for the next several weeks. get some world travel in!

Go back to Mexico so you can get another week off.

Lets set a world record in the mean time! Most air miles for least cost, commercially! :laugh:

i'm going DC to costa rica for just over 300 r/t.....

in the next 30 days I'll be in belgium, costa rica, and chicago. wheeeee.

stay thirsty my friends!

time to get started on that "welding indoors" project :bigtu:

um...I don't think there should be widespread panic over the h1n1 yet. However, you should be prepared for inoculation dissemination and a reasonable understanding of the situation as it progresses. Mutation is the threat, and the SNS is mobilized for a reason.

No one will take any threat seriously until it happens. I live this shit, so I have a different perspective.