Are you concerned about the Swine Flu?

[zeegs]

Re: Are you concerned about the Swine Flu?

I'm concerned, I have a trip planned to Cabos, in a few months and am thinking of redirecting somewhere else. My wife's company stopped all travel until futher notice, and their based out out of Lancaster, PA.

[Zuke]

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I'm concerned, I have a trip planned to Cabos, in a few months and am thinking of redirecting somewhere else. My wife's company stopped all travel until futher notice, and their based out out of Lancaster, PA.

What airlines did you book with? I know some of them are letting you change your destionation for no charge.

[Chop]

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Interesting split in the voting. I am a little concerned though. Somehow it seems like all the cases reported in the US have been mild as oppossed to the ones in Mexico where deaths have occurred.

BTW, according to the CDC you can't get the disease from eating properly cooked pork.

Sometimes when these things happen I always think conspiracy theory.
Maybe someone is trying to test a new chemical weapon an dropped a few bugs in Mexico to see how it would spread.

[Underdawg736]

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Zeegs, since your wife works up here you guys should take a day trip and visit the Amish! LOL...

[bulldog shine]

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not worried, how do pigs get the flu maybe I will just stick with processed pork

[Underdawg736]

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.....goes good with BACON!!!

[zeegs]

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What airlines did you book with? I know some of them are letting you change your destionation for no charge.

They'll let us change we're waiting to see what's going to happen.

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[quote]Zeegs, since your wife works up here you guys should take a day trip and visit the Amish! LOL...


Kinda hard to scuba dive on an Amish farm.

[bulldog shine]

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maybe detail a buggy

[Underdawg736]

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LOL!! We do have old quarries up here, one even has an airplane in it! But I doubt that would be a good substitute to Mexico. Good luck though!

[SVT Lightning]

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BTW, according to the CDC you can't get the disease from eating properly cooked pork.

And you also can't get it from eating improperly cooked pork! It's tramsmitted just like any flu bug....through droplets from the lungs that get deposited on surfaces when people cough and then you touch that surface..... or by inhaling those droplets from someone who is infected who is coughing.

EAT YOUR PORK!

[Underdawg736]

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maybe detail a buggy

HAHAHAHA!!!! There are "pickup" buggies here that have diamond plate beds. The Amish aren't as technology deficient as people might think!

SVT your right, you can't get it by eating pork. only if your in contact with infected pigs or infected humans.

[CumminsCrazed]

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Oinkety oink!!!!!!!!!!!!

[SVT Lightning]

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Support your local hog farmers.....keep eating ham, bacon, ribs and if you like em....pigs knuckles!!!! I hate to see these guys farms go under due to the fact that the media has chosen this story to HYPE until we are sick of hearing it!!!!
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By MIKE BAKER and MICHAEL J. CRUMB, Associated Press Writers


DES MOINES, Iowa – Like the virus itself, the name "swine flu" is spreading quickly. For the pork purveyors and hog farmers who make up the nation's $15 billion pork industry, that's a disaster.

It doesn't seem to matter that the strain may not come entirely from pigs and cannot be spread by eating pork. Hog prices are already dropping as financial markets worry people will have second thoughts about buying "the other white meat."

"It's killing our markets," said Francis Gilmore, 72, who runs a 600-hog operation in Perry, outside Des Moines, and worries his small business could be ruined by the crisis. "Where they got the name, I just don't know."

The swine flu strain that is spreading is a never-before-seen hybrid of human, swine and bird influenza but is widely known as swine flu.

[Markus Kleis]

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I'm going to eat pork tomorrow even though I rarely eat pork (nothing against it, I just eat more chicken and beef) just to prove how tough I am

[G Force]

Re: Are you concerned about the Swine Flu?

Yes,i am watching for pigs on the wing.