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H1N1
Is anyone really worried?
We have 15 comfirmed cases in a town 20 minutes from us, they just came back from a senior class trip to Mexico. Our local HS is closed b/c some of the kids just came back from Disney and showed symptoms. I'm germ freak as it is, I never leave the house without hand sanitizer and I wash my hands all the time, I clean off the shopping carts with lysol wipes before I put Cate's cart cover on them and we normally take our own seat to restaurants (ETA: Cate's seat, not ours)...I told you I was bad 
- this is also could be why Cate is always sick (this according to my mum).
Part of me is worried for Cate the other part of me says that my worry is a little irational.
Re: H1N1
I'm mildly worried, but truly annoyed.
PEOPLE HERE ARE FREAKING OUT. We have no confirmed cases, and only 5 suspected cases. There was something like 280 cases sent for testing... and all but like 10 of them have come back negative (the remaining 10 still have to be tested.) That's why I'm freaking out.
Maybe I'm not as aware as I should, but I was under the impression it could be treated, just like the regular flu. I mean, yes, you could die from it... but you can also die from the regular flu.
This is me to, I'm pretty sure that the regular flu is just as "deadly" - I understand that it's a new strain and that right now there are no vaccinations available for it but common sense goes a long way. When the local HS closed people here started freaking out.
The one thing I'm slightly concerned about is we have to go to Milwaukee this weekend for Uncle Mike's funeral - I have no idea who I'll be in contact with, what they've been exposed to, where they've been, etc. Mke County has 2 of the 5 suspected cases and it's a much larger city, so I could come across it more.
Of course, I'll just try to be more conscious of hand washing, etc. It's all I can do.
I think the news said that there are 41 suspected cases in the chicagoland area. I'm not sure if I misheard them because yeterday morning it was only 9 but they closed down a crapload of schools this morning.
I'm not overly concerned about it. To me, I feel like they are blowing it way out of proportion. Thousands of people die from the flu each year, I don't know why this one is such a big deal.
I also heard that this strain is lacking an amino acid that would make the spread of it far worse.
I'm not worried at all. This H1N1 is just as deadly as the common flu and as long as people practice proper hygiene and people who have flu symptoms stay away from public places I don't think it'll spread that far.
It seems like the news outlets are blowing everything way out of proportion. But this sort of thing happened with the bird flu too.
I'm always washing my hands and doing my best to stay away from sick people anyway!