Tag Archives: H1N1

That Wednesday post that everyone will be talking about on Thursday at the water cooler

There’s lots of stuff going on that I’d like to write about tonight, but I really should be working on tomorrow’s lesson plan for that class I’ll be teaching at 826. I’m thinking of giving each one of them, at the end of class, the opportunity to post something… anything… on my site. I guess […]

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H1N1 clinic on Sunday in Ypsilanti

I don’t want to freak people out, but this afternoon Washtenaw County had its first H1N1 death. And, that’s not the worst of it. According to AnnArbor.com, the person who died wasn’t someone in one of the so-called high-risk groups… Details, I suspect, will be coming out shortly. I’ve been wanting to get Clementine vaccinated […]

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“helmet of salvation… shoes of peace”

VH1 is going to be airing a special this Thursday on the beloved American character actor Willie Aames. It’s going to be called “Broke and Famous,” and, according to reports in the press, it will focus on the period of Aames’s life after Charles in Charge, when he was penniless and living inside a Los […]

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Should healthcare workers be made to get the H1N1 vaccine?

According to a new study conducted by the University of Michigan, while nearly 90 percent of the public believes healthcare workers should be required to get the H1N1 vaccine, only 38 percent of health care workers actually intend to do so… Here’s a clip: …As H1N1 influenza vaccine begins to be shipped across the country, […]

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Japan, ramping up H1N1 precautions

My friend Pete Larson, a brilliant musician who turned his back on rock and roll in order accept his fate and become a scientist, just returned from Japan, where he wrote the following. I thought some of you with mask fetishes might enjoy it. While the 2009 H1N1 flu has been written off by the […]

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