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Too Big to Get the Flu? »

By Pat Racimora on Nov 6, 2009 in Current Affairs, Health Care, Influenza Pandemic | View Comments

First the taxpayers’ treasure was raided to bail out Wall Street firms. Now it’s happening to 13 of them again, this time by putting their employees ahead of the highest risk groups among us ordinary folks to receive the H1N1 vaccine. Melanie Sloan, the Director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington put it [...]

Flu shots and tinfoil hats. »

By Uppity Woman on May 9, 2009 in Health Care, Influenza Pandemic | View Comments

Flu Kitteh not wantz UR girmz As those of you who read me regularly know, conspiracy theories without actual concrete unusual indicators make me itch and scratch. The Obama administration is talking about a second flu vaccine this year (a series of two shots) in addition to the normal flu season vaccine. The second set [...]

Touching me Touching you – So many ways to meet a swine »

By NewHampster on May 2, 2009 in Current Affairs, Influenza Pandemic | View Comments

Don’t Touch that dial!  Use your sleeve to open that door!  Use Purell, wash your hands.  Don’t touch your face.  Stay at home locked in a bubble.  Touching me, touching you.   How many ways are there to touch each other? Seriously.

Pope of Smithfield Foods Doubts Veracruz Pig Flu Persuasively »

By John Batchelor on May 2, 2009 in Influenza Pandemic, John Batchelor, John Batchelor (author), Media, Radio | View Comments

Virginia’s Smithfield Foods CEO Larry Pope speaks with much careful persuasion against the suspicion of the partially Smithfield-owned CAFO, or mega pig farm, at La Gloria, was the source of the A/H1N1. The interview drags on, but Pope makes is good points right away.

Patient Zero Search Explodes »

By John Batchelor on May 1, 2009 in Influenza Pandemic | View Comments

(bumped up from this morning)   New, fretful, confusing reports from the California border indicates that the A/H1N1 virus was in California before five year-old Edgar Hernandez fell ill on April 2 in La Gloria, Veracruz state. California epidemiologists have located two cases of children in Southern California, a ten year-old boy in San Diego [...]

Swine Flu Tip **Open Thread** »

By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on Apr 30, 2009 in Current Affairs, Influenza Pandemic, Open Thread | View Comments

(Bumped up from Thursday afternoon . This is an instant classic, Reverend Amy!) A former parishioner sent this to me tonight. Now, I know this is a serious issue, and we must take care. But sometimes when things are the most frightening, a little humor goes a long way. That being said, allow me to [...]

Biden’s Headed For the Woodshed »

By SusanUnPC on Apr 30, 2009 in Influenza Pandemic, Joe "Bro" Biden | View Comments

Joe’s off the reservation again! Pat Buchanan predicts that Joe Biden will be in the White House woodshed today. I’d pay to see that! UPDATE: Now the White House is claiming that Biden was referring solely to people who don’t feel well. Pathetic. NBC NY: “Vice president Joe Biden said today he would tell his [...]

Influenza Pandemic … further thoughts: »

By Doctor Tom on Apr 30, 2009 in Current Affairs, Health Care, Influenza Pandemic | View Comments

(Bumped up from Wednesday morning.) Thanks to all who responded to my piece regarding the administration response to this pandemic of influenza. As I go through the news sources today, there really isn’t much exciting unless one examines the response of the locals. What I am seeing is an admirable effort to educate the public [...]