Good Morning America

If memory serves correct, it's been over a year that the medical and news communities have been warning Americans about H1N1.

Last year, news broadcasts have been reporting: "H1N1 is coming, H1N1 is coming!" 

How did the news and the CDC know the Swine Flu alien was coming unless it  had already been here. You can't see a virus coming like you could a ten mile wide [remember the movie Independence Day] spaceship hovering over a city.

This leads to a question; Why isn't the medical community better prepared since they knew over a year ago that we were about to be visited?

Now, people are standing in long lines at flu clinics waiting to be vaccinated, just to find out there's no vaccine left. Here is a list of some H1N1 shortages.

Broadcasters are telling people "if you're sick, stay home"  or they're reminding people to frequently wash their hands and cover their mouths when they cough. This advice is something my mother and grandmother taught me eons ago when I was a child -- old folks know what they're talking about.

Advice from CNN Health:

• Look up local flu outbreaks.
• Don't panic.
• Stay home.
• Understand risks.
• Get a pneumonia vaccine
• Wash your hands
• Don't stock up on face masks or Tamiflu.
• Get a swine flu vaccine.
• Be prepared

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A friend of mine refuses to have her children vaccinated because she found out what was in the vaccine. That's fine, that's her choice. Is this a wrong choice, who's to say, only time will tell.

Some people believe they'll catch the flu from getting the vaccine. Medical Officials say, no, that's not true. Your body, if your immune system is healthy, supposedly builds up immunity.

Question; what about those of us whose immune system isn't healthy? What about people with HIV or Diabetics or people with some other autoimmune disorder, how does/will this affect them?

Doctors especially advise that these people that they should receive vaccinations.

My thoughts: No one really knows how or if the vaccines will work. In my mind, we're all guinea pigs. The Scientific Community will compile the statistics from how many people survive and how many don't,  then decide on a success rate.

Importantly, people must understand that medicine is not an exact science, it's scientific-guesstimates -- doing something is better than doing nothing.

Be well, be safe, wash your hands, cover your mouth when you cough and stay home if you're sick!

Seriously, does anything created by or for Yahoo ever last?

The latest Yahoo death is GeoCities.

Is anyone really going to miss GeoCities, other than for sentimental reasons. Matthew Sussman at BlogCritic didn't seem to think so:

History will look back on the GeoCities project as a failure peppered with individual successes. The first-time Internet homeowners eventually traded up for widgets, RSS, and Twitter functionality. But like their first apartment, they'll always remember that dinky, plaid-colored website they somehow created themselves, wipe a tear from their eye, and exclaim, "Jesus Christ, that looked terrible." READ MORE

His comment is quite comical -- don't you think?

But, before Geo's timely [they should have shot them sooner] demise, 360 bit the dust, before that, the Message Boards were changed and totally screwed up and the biggest fiasco of all, Yahoo Clubs were dismantled and made into groups. Oh and, Y!Mash whatever happened to Y!Mash?

I hate the Yahoo message boards, you can't keep track of anything. I would spend hours trying to find a conversation I was taking part in -- now, I just don't go there any more.

Yahoo groups are "iffy" I liked the clubs much better -- the clubs could be made more intimate and homey. The Groups seem so antiseptic and sterile.

So, what's with Yahoo? Why are they always fixing what isn't broken?

I've made sure to have another email address, just in case Yahoo decides to go helter-skelter with their Web mail. Trusting Google with my email seems to be a no brainer.

Maybe there's a name change in the wind for Yahoo. I'm thinking -- Yahell, that sounds more like it.

SFBG -- are you guys serious!



And you [and your spoiled brattitude] want to talk about convoluted.



Just -- how  old are you people writing for the San Francisco Bay Guardian?

The Veto letter probably, was the typical form letter that most Politicians send for a vetoed bill. Now, that could be the reason why the substance of the bill, to which you're referring, wasn't dissected to your satisfaction. Anyone with any iota of sense would see that.

No, it seems to me, with my political ignorance and all, that you're just angry because some grown-up told you no -- pure and simple.

But no: Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed the bill -- and sent Ammiano and the legislators a remarkable veto letter. The letter says nothing about the substance of the bill; in fact, the language is really convoluted and it’s hard to figure out what the gov is really saying. MORE

It also seems, that it's your mind that's convoluted, not Governor Schwarzenegger's.

Where oh WHERE  do you read that this letter of veto is in any way, shape or form acrimonious? From a poetic stand point, it's in accidental acrostic form, but come on now, aren't you reaching just a tad bit?

California has enough problems and the Governor probably followed the advice of his advisers and vetoed the bill for the moment. There wasn't any mention of the bill being a waste or not making any sense. The powers-that-be decided that this wasn't the time for this particular expenditure; isn't California almost bankrupt.

You do understand -- don't you? Alright it's like this; remember when you asked your parents to buy that Mercedes for you, and  they said no because they preferred to buy groceries or pay the mortgage -- now do you get it?

Same, same with the Gov.

So, put a cork in it, stop jumping up and down, stop screaming the high heavens, stop stomping your feet and yes, please do get up off the floor! -- you're getting your clothes dirty.