>From Mr. Lawrence > Some of you may have been debating whether to get the vaccine or not. > > Here are a couple of personal observations... > > -- They say it's not very deadly. Well, I guess it's not, we're all > still alive here. > > -- They say it's not usually very serious. Well, I guess it's not; the > number of days when it knocks you right over flat on your back in bed > seems to be smaller than what I recall other flues doing. Most of the > time you've got it you get to join the ranks of the Walking Wounded. > > -- They say it may stick around a little longer than usual... and hey, > man, they are right! > > This is the Energizer Bunny of flues. As members of the Early Adopters > program, we received our cases by aerial delivery (Achoo!) quite some > time before the vaccine appeared on store shelves in our town, and it's > still going strong. > > They also say it may have an unusual tendency to bring along secondary > infections "for the ride", like, for instance, eye infections. And I > have to say, they're right again. (Ouch.) > > All in all, if this was developed in a black lab somewhere (*Woof!* -- > er, no, I mean a clandestine laboratory), said lab being packed with > evil scientists engaging in depraved experiments with recombinant virus > fragments, then those scientists are not out to destroy the world. No, > indeed. They are sadists: They are simply determined to make the world > *miserable*. > > And now I shall go back to Saying Nothing, probably for at least another > few days, or until we're all over this Thing here.
Have a hot bowl of chicken soup! It may not cure the body's ailments but it nourishes the soul. Not surprising, just like most of the country there is a dire shortage where I live, in Madison Wisconsin. They ran out of supplies a month ago. Only specially targeted groups managed to get vaccinated. The rest of us are still waiting. They say by December. We'll see... Steve -- Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
