swine 'flu epidemic
passing ship
creation of oil
and other defining moments
all right, serious shit link edition:
Effect Measure is all over the swine 'flu outbreak in SoCal and Mexico
Revere is not prone to panic:
----
PPS: Saturday Night Weird Story Edition
- Read it and ponder.
----
Unusual 'flu cases in SoCal...
The CDC heads-up advisory the CDC has swine 'flu on its front page now, but has gone to normal "steady on chaps" mode
Oh crap! Many cases in Mexico City with multiple fatalities
End of the day wrap up by Revere
Swine Flu While We Wait: Revere
- WHO is supposed to make an announcement saturday afternoon, probably going to Pandemic Level 4 which can trigger travel advisories or recalls and some medium level action by WHO people
CDC Saturday press briefing - Revere
Saturday Swine Flu wrap up - Revere
CDC Morbidity Report expected later today.
Travel adivsory for Mexico, but no restrictions, yet.
Sounds like 20-50 deomgraphic is hit hard by this one. Kids and older folks coming off better, so far.
Inconsistent symptoms between US and Mexico cases.
Not known, obviously, how many mild or asymptomatic cases have been overlooked.
Important to know to understand mortality rates.
This is something to keep a close eye on folks.
Most of these things fizzle, but once or twice per century we get a nasty, nasty pandemic and it is the one you don't expect that gets you.
If this spread to any significant effect there is also a danger of serious nativist backlash, already seeing some in the blogosphere
Recombinomics noticed and takes alarm
Google map of cases from Henry
flutrackers - they're usually relatively good source of rapid updates and info
Google Flu Map for US - interesting to see if this shows secular trends
PS: Mexico is not just closing schools, they are cancelling soccer matches - WHO is reportedly considering upping pandemic alert level to 5.
I don't like living in interesting times.
So, like, dude, where DID all that oil come from. Heh heh heh!
Paul. You were right. - I confess, I actually believed for a finite duration, and said publicly, that the US government must have had actual real and reliable intelligence on Iraq being up to something in 2002 +/- 1 --- because I couldn't believe actual grown ups in positions of resonsibility would be as stupid, venal and evil as they appeared to be.
I was wrong.