Maddox offers his readers a chance to give him swine flu
George Ouzounian, better known by his internet handle Maddox, penned a post offering one of his readers a chance to give him swine flu. Titled “I hope I get swine flu,” the post argues that “it only takes a few minutes to look up the symptoms, mortality rate, and treatment to realize that [swine flu] no different from the common flu (which kills way more people and by extension is way more awesome).”
To prove this, he’s offering one of his flu-infected readers a chance to sneeze on him. The conditions?
Contest Rules:
# One lucky person will get the opportunity to fly me out to where you live* for one night**, and you get to sneeze in my face.
# Winner must provide a proof of having swine flu (signed doctor blood test or something along those lines).
# Winner must not have any other bullshit diseases. I don’t want your herpes, even though I can’t get them.
In a way I hope he does get the H1N1 flu. A good friend of mine died from it last week after two weeks in ICU on a ventilator, another is in the hospital now.
It isn’t that the flu has the same symptoms it is that the body reacts differently to those symptoms.