Wow.

Okay, okay. I know. I was doing so well there for about a month. Slacker. Been a weird month, give me a break.
But I guess WHO has officially declared a pandemic. So I’m curious to everyone’s thoughts on this.
I haven’t really been following because…well…no one else really has either…right? I mean it’s kind of fallen [...]

June 11, 2009
Categories: Flying Pig Mexiflu, Media Representation of Disease, Pandemics and Outbreaks . . Author: kjmitchell715 . Comments: 5 Comments

I disagree with the CDC

Hi.  Reed here.
The CDC put out a report, according to Breitbart.com, saying that “Swine Flu Parties” are a bad idea.
Initial reaction:  Whaaa???
Then, I got to this part:
"It’s a big mistake putting individuals and children at risk, and the CDC does not recommend that people follow that course," he said.
The idea, which reportedly first [...]

May 8, 2009
Categories: Flying Pig Mexiflu, Pandemics and Outbreaks, Vaccinations and Anti-Vaxxers . . Author: Rev. J. Reed Braden . Comments: Leave a Comment

ARE YOU PANICKED?!?!

Hello readers. Thanks for bearing with me while I took a much needed vacation at home in Roanoke. I didn’t look at a newspaper, television, or allow myself to discuss Swine Flu at all…and it proved to be very restful indeed. But now, as I sit in the Roanoke Regional Airport…waiting for the fog to [...]

May 4, 2009
Categories: Flying Pig Mexiflu, Media Representation of Disease, Pandemics and Outbreaks . . Author: kjmitchell715 . Comments: 3 Comments

A U.S. Death and the Morals of Epidemic

As I’m sure most of you have heard by now, the U.S. has had its first Swine Flu related death. A 23 month old toddler. It’s terrifying and sad, and now we have to wait and see if it gets much worse than this.
In other news, I’m giving a very brief presentation today in Art [...]

April 29, 2009
Categories: Abandonment, Art and Catastrophe, Broadening Epidemic, Flying Pig Mexiflu, Media Representation of Disease, Pandemics and Outbreaks, People Killing People, Rage, Sin . . Author: kjmitchell715 . Comments: 3 Comments

Swine Flu Roundup

Hi! I’m Reed.
* I’ve spent the past two days looking at the Twitter Search page for swine flu and #swineflu and I’m thoroughly enjoying the ignorance of diseases displayed by the Tweeple.
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=swine+flu
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swineflu
* These graphs are from Daily Kos, of all places:
This is where we were on Saturday:

This is where we were on Monday:

So that [...]

April 28, 2009
Categories: Flying Pig Mexiflu, Media Representation of Disease, Pandemics and Outbreaks . . Author: Rev. J. Reed Braden . Comments: 1 Comment