I’m on a layover at Scarlett O’Hara International Airport, long enough to raise a family. The Boingo god smiled at me and I seem to have already paid to use the Internet here. My flights yesterday were canceled due to weather in Chicago, which gave me more time to think about pig flu, in the company of a well-connected doctor who walked me through the medical and political issues that public health officials are facing. There is no easy answer here; but it would seem more difficult to justify under-reacting than overreacting.
er that a few other people have been thinking about it too. I learned, for example, there was a conference in Mexico two weeks ago, and Barack was there, talkin’ drugs and walls and immigration and NAFTA and such, and he shook hands with a guy who spontaneously died, ostensibly of the Tortilla Flu, 24 hours (wait, CNN is reporting that it was one week) later. Here is an article from the Daily Mail, for which I used to write horoscopes (Cainer still writes them, and I can only vouch for their accuracy and for no other part of the newspaper). I think that having Obama at the epicenter just before disaster strikes is, well, interesting.
Cam, who plays shortstop for Planet Waves and who is visiting from Australia, dropped in with this odd fact: a company called Baxter is doing quite well in the midst of this chaos, despite its recent grotesque misdeeds surrounding bird flu. And here is some video that he dug up that will send chills down your spine. It’s as mainstream as it gets — MSNBC.
My mother wrote to me and said she sees “conspiracy under every rock.” My mother; there you have it. What does your mother think?
Tracy, the Astrology Programming Dutchess of Wales, dropped in with one of her perfect Pisces logic comments that summed the whole thing up, when I asked her what she thought: “Most of the cases seem to be mild. America conjunct Hylonome [in the public health emergency chart, suggesting ‘self inflicted situation for the United States and/or the Americas’]. I’ve decided what I think. I think the outbreak in Mexico has been reacted to in this way because it happened under this astrology, not the other way round if you see what I mean. Anything that happens now can get blown out of proportion.”