Wall 314: Surprise
Under no circumstances, not any, should you ever leave a cat alone with a box of packing peanuts. We think he fell in and freaked out. Then, to make matters more silly, Meg and I had a peanut fight for good measure.
Wall 255: PSA
Now, I see many informative articles on the Internet every day. Bloggers spend a lot of extra time citing their sources with links for even the smallest of claims. It helps build the legitimacy of their written word. Their arguments are logical and appeal to the academic.
This is not one of those blog posts.
Has anyone noticed the medical community, and by marionette, the media, completely waffling on H1N1?
In my recent memory:
- Pregnant women more at risk than most.
- Young children more at risk than most.
- Teen hit worse than thought by H1N1.
- Obese more at risk than most.
- Middle aged adults hit worse than thought by H1N1.
- Children now need two doses of the H1N1 vaccine instead of one.
What do all these emerging studies and headlines mean?
No one knows a damn about this virus. The size of initial studies is far too small to justify any conclusions, positive or negative.
That means the vaccine too, folks. There has been such a unnerving panic brought about by this flu strain that the public needs some respite. Some reprieve. Some feeling of security.
The last time a doctor told me to take medication, this summer, I had Shiga Toxin producing E.Coli. The doc told me to start antibiotics right away, and took a test sample.
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8 days later the *results* came in, contraindicating the use of antibiotics. Antibiotics could have killed me by spreading the infection throughout my body.
Good thing I didn’t listen to him.
All I’m saying is, please, please trust yourself. Use your mind. Don’t cite those sources.
Make your own.
Wall 239: Singularity
Are those McServers self-aware?
Thanks to BBspot and of course weathersealed.com and Stephen Von Worley for making that bad joke possible
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