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Oink

Cidu Bill on Nov 2nd 2009

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Okay, H1N1, swine flu, a pig… all the ingredients are in place, but what’s the actual, you know, point here?

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Maybe it’s just me, but…

Cidu Bill on Oct 6th 2009

I have to confess that when I read the “WHO says H1Ni Vaccine safe” headline today, my mind went into Abbott and Costello mode.

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School Days, School Days, Dear Old Snow and Flu Days…

Cidu Bill on May 27th 2009

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Just wondering… Has anybody ever heard of “flu days”? Other than during this year’s Swine Flu Panic, that is. Seriously, can somebody explain why we’re treating this like Son of the Black Plague? Sure, it can be a dangerous illness — but so can “seasonal flu” (a term apparently nobody needed until this year; think “analog clock”), which so far has killed, no exaggeration, more than one thousand times as many Americans this year as Swine Flu has.New York City Health Commissioner Thomas Frieden said yesterday, “Our hearts go out to their families” of two New Yorkers who apparently died from Swine Flu last week, adding “as for everybody who died of other causes last week, hey, life’s a bitch.”

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Puzzles I Don’t Understand

Cidu Bill on May 3rd 2009

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Flu Who

Cidu Bill on Apr 30th 2009

The World Health Organization announced today that, at urging of meat producers, it is officially changing the name of “Swine Flu” to “Influenza A.”

I’m not making this up.

Do they seriously believe that anybody will really start  referring to the virus as Influenza A? I’d be shocked if a single news outlet even once uses the new name without at least parenthetically referring to the old name as well.


May 1 update: As of today, neither NPR nor the BBC has gotten the memo: Both continue to refer to “swine flu” (probably because, you know, that’s its name).

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