pandemic notme ever since i was a child and first heard about 1918 i've been scared for the world i've been scared 040215 ... zeke we are livin through one. HIV. 040215 ... notme alternately, one might say we are dying through one. (so much loss) 040215 ... notme or perhaps i meant alternatively? 040215 ... notme unless one cares to say it alternately we are living through one we are dying through one we are living through one dying through one living though one dying one living one . 040215 ... mon uow i'm scared. 050312 ... nom) "Historian John Barry, author of "The Great Influenza," said the disease "killed more people in 24 weeks than AIDS has killed in 24 years."" 051102 ... nom) my great grandmother violet was 27 years 3 months 15 days old 051102 ... nom) or 27 years 3 months 15 days young 051102 ... nom "an H5N1 pandemic may disproportionately affect the young and healthy" 051111 ... nom) "This is looking more and more like an H1N1 1918," 051111 ... smurfus rex maybe the anti-vaxxers will finally get on board... 181116 ... unhinged against a flu pandemic? the flu mutates too quickly for vaccines to be very useful for most people outside of high risk groups 181116 ... ego hum vaccines are a deterrent to pandemics 181116 ... unhinged has never had a flu shot 181118 ... arwyn I can't have them, but everyone else around me gets them. Herd_immunity 181118 ... smurfus rex can't refuse flu shots (mandatory) 181125 ... m o n 2020 i_am_scared 200317 ... unhinged flu vaccines are only 55% effective precisely because of viral mutation it will take at least a year to develop a vaccine for covid19 and it may not be that effective...better than nothing I guess 200318 ... arwyn can we manage to self isolate and practice social distancing for a year to keep the curve flattened? What about kids in school? they'll lose a year of education thanks to this. There is a very different world waiting on the other side of this virus 200318 ... unhinged this thing definitely poured lighter fluid on our already volatile situation out of the ashes new things grow 200318 ... Doar I'm waiting for zombies. . 200323 what's it to you? who go blather from