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Originally Posted by mom2twins2  Yes, I agree with you. My neighbor's son (who is 7), called me last week and said her son had the swine flu AGAIN! I said, 'well, he must not have had it the first time." She said she took him to the doctor both times and the doctor said he had swine flu. (However, the doctor did not test). Just because he has a high fever and is coughing and congestive, automatically health care says it's swine flu. I don't think he's had it either time, IMO. Sounds like a bad cold or just regular old bronchitis.
Is this a scare tactic? And if so, on behalf of whom?? |
I think it's a "jump on the bandwagon" tactic. Everyone wants to be labeled somehow. I wrote earlier that a normally sane, rational co-worker was almost exhuberant about his 13 yr old daughter "having" swine flu. No testing, no isolation, etc. Turns out she didn't have it and that was announced with much less fanfare.
Everyone is trying to fit in, and the swine flu is no exception. Why say it's flu when you can say it's swine flu? I've heard several rumors about how someone "knows" someone who has / had it. PUHLEEEZE !
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