Comments on: (Updated) Swine Flu Up Close & Semi-Personal http://themoderatevoice.com/30363/swine-flu-up-close-semi-personal/ An Internet hub with domestic and international news, analysis, original reporting, and popular features from the left, center, indies, centrists, moderates, and right Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:49:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: kathyedits http://themoderatevoice.com/30363/swine-flu-up-close-semi-personal/comment-page-1/#comment-182525 kathyedits Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:36:15 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/?p=30363#comment-182525 In high school, my daughter had a small, very close circle of friends going back to middle school. Two of her friends from that group went to the University of Delaware after graduation. I know it's a big school and it's overwhelmingly likely that it's not one or both of them, and I know from reading Shaun's post that the four cases there were very mild anyway -- but it just brings it closer to home. They are my daughter's really good friends; they see each other every holiday and over summer break, and it just makes me realize that we should not take anything for granted. In high school, my daughter had a small, very close circle of friends going back to middle school. Two of her friends from that group went to the University of Delaware after graduation. I know it's a big school and it's overwhelmingly likely that it's not one or both of them, and I know from reading Shaun's post that the four cases there were very mild anyway — but it just brings it closer to home. They are my daughter's really good friends; they see each other every holiday and over summer break, and it just makes me realize that we should not take anything for granted.

]]> By: Silhouette http://themoderatevoice.com/30363/swine-flu-up-close-semi-personal/comment-page-1/#comment-182517 Silhouette Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:01:20 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/?p=30363#comment-182517 In my area we had a severe flu with high fevers, vomiting, severe respiratory symptoms that lasted sometimes for weeks with relapses upon even moderate exercise in recovery being very common.<br><br>Didn't hear a peep about this even though we know it was spreading around the nation a few months ago...the usual...every winter the same more or less..some years worse than others..<br><br>But we didn't hear any reports of this harrowing virus that undoubtedly killed elderly and young. But now that the call for prosecution of torture came around, suddenly [and boy isn't it working!!] we're hearing nothing but about this "new S-C-A-R-Y virus"..<br><br>So to recap the FEAR FACTOR:<br><br>1. "A string of seemingly coordinated bombings in Bagdhad the day before Obama landed "secretly" there.<br>[Anyone investigating that security leak? Anyone even care?]<br><br>2. The "killer virus pandemic [not even as bad as the flu that was going around a month ago that nobody cared about]<br><br>3. Airforce One circling ground zero in NY, NY assumedly without the permission of Obama [he would never make a PR blunder that blatant]<br><br>Well Mr. Cheney, did it work? Are we not going to prosecute you now that we're distracted?<br><br>The sitting "president" apparently isn't Barack Obama. Apparently it is still Dicktator Cheney.. In my area we had a severe flu with high fevers, vomiting, severe respiratory symptoms that lasted sometimes for weeks with relapses upon even moderate exercise in recovery being very common.

Didn't hear a peep about this even though we know it was spreading around the nation a few months ago…the usual…every winter the same more or less..some years worse than others..

But we didn't hear any reports of this harrowing virus that undoubtedly killed elderly and young. But now that the call for prosecution of torture came around, suddenly [and boy isn't it working!!] we're hearing nothing but about this “new S-C-A-R-Y virus”..

So to recap the FEAR FACTOR:

1. “A string of seemingly coordinated bombings in Bagdhad the day before Obama landed “secretly” there.
[Anyone investigating that security leak? Anyone even care?]

2. The “killer virus pandemic [not even as bad as the flu that was going around a month ago that nobody cared about]

3. Airforce One circling ground zero in NY, NY assumedly without the permission of Obama [he would never make a PR blunder that blatant]

Well Mr. Cheney, did it work? Are we not going to prosecute you now that we're distracted?

The sitting “president” apparently isn't Barack Obama. Apparently it is still Dicktator Cheney..

]]> By: CStanley http://themoderatevoice.com/30363/swine-flu-up-close-semi-personal/comment-page-1/#comment-182515 CStanley Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:48:20 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/?p=30363#comment-182515 Credit where due for calling out the ridiculous political attacks on Snowe, Shaun. Credit where due for calling out the ridiculous political attacks on Snowe, Shaun.

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