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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]