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I AM A RIVER OF PHLEGM
Jan. 5th, 2006 10:51 pmI shouldn't complain because I'm already mostly over the damned thing after 24 hours and it's not the Flu-Bola™ that everyone else got, but rhinoviruses are overrrated. No sir, I don't like it. Snurfle.
COMFORT ME DAMNIT
Actually a pot of green jasmine tea and a largish glass of Barenjager have done a lot to make life bearable.
COMFORT ME DAMNIT
Actually a pot of green jasmine tea and a largish glass of Barenjager have done a lot to make life bearable.
Oh hey, and speaking of doom
Oct. 5th, 2005 02:07 pmDuring the big antiwar demonstration and also during the First Lady's appearance at the National Book Fair, sensors on the Mall picked up traces of tularemia, a deadly bacterial disease that has been weaponized. Choose your paranoia: was Big Brother trying to kill the antiwar demonstrators? Was Osama trying to whack Mrs. Bush? Who knows. But what happened then? They didn't tell anyone.
Whether or not the sensors picked up a false positive (apparently this is likely), I can't believe that it takes 72 hours to pick up the phone and ask the CDC to check it out.
Whether or not the sensors picked up a false positive (apparently this is likely), I can't believe that it takes 72 hours to pick up the phone and ask the CDC to check it out.
Mad Science Update
Oct. 5th, 2005 01:26 pmI get these News Alerts on my Sidekick from CNN, MSNBC, and the Wall Street Journal. Usually they're redundant and not too interesting: PRESIDENT MAKES SPEECH, or CELEBRITY RAPIST ACQUITTED AGAIN, 3 at once.
This morning I was beeped into consciousness by: NEWS ALERT: Researchers Recreate 1918 Flu Virus.
I sat up in bed and thought: what the fuck. Who did that? WHY? What the fuck are we fighting, fucking LEX LUTHOR?, as Get Your War On might say.
Sadly, the truth is a bit scarier than that, even. Apparently they did this in an effort to trace the mutations that brought us that superflu. And the results they got suggest that it began as a bird flu and spread to humans "without undergoing complicated changes".
I should of stood in bed.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4308872.stm
This morning I was beeped into consciousness by: NEWS ALERT: Researchers Recreate 1918 Flu Virus.
I sat up in bed and thought: what the fuck. Who did that? WHY? What the fuck are we fighting, fucking LEX LUTHOR?, as Get Your War On might say.
Sadly, the truth is a bit scarier than that, even. Apparently they did this in an effort to trace the mutations that brought us that superflu. And the results they got suggest that it began as a bird flu and spread to humans "without undergoing complicated changes".
I should of stood in bed.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4308872.stm
