*g* I am home and my cat's joyful celebrations at the return of her favourite toy from furnace room purgatory (it made a trip to the water dish and needed drying - oops) has cheered me up.
I spent the entire day getting emails from colleagues and media outlets about swine-flu-will-kill-you-but-don't-panic-yay and then some work stuff went wrong and I wanted to kill someone. And then the WHO raised the threat level and I got deluged with emails from people concerned about reported cases fifty miles from me. And the, to top it off, there was a rant in a Torchwood community about the unlikelihood of Gwen needing to learn to use a gun because she's a police officer and surely it's an urban legend that UK police officers don't carry firearms.
Er, no, but at least I'm home now and I'm listening to today's Chris Evans show which has always signalled "the day is over, yay!".
BTW, I'm fine and there is no need for me to wear bloody face masks or get a flu shot that has no effect against swine flu anyway. Why do people get panicked about these things?
I can only refer you to http://harolds-planet.blogspot.com/ (the one for Monday 27th if it has changed by the time you get there). I think it needs to be printed out and stuck somewhere.
I am trying hard not to wish bad thoughts on all tabloid editors right now.
I'm up in Canada so I don't think the news is quite as crazy as it is in the States, but I'm trying to ignore most news outlets because they're frothing at the mouth now. And with only six cases in the entire country (all of whom have recovered with only mild symptoms), there are already at least two countries advising people not to travel here. Yay.
In a year's time when everyone is finally admitting that it was as over-hyped as bird flu, I shall chuckle quietly to myself :-)
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Date: 2009-04-27 07:56 pm (UTC):-)
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Date: 2009-04-27 09:00 pm (UTC)I spent the entire day getting emails from colleagues and media outlets about swine-flu-will-kill-you-but-don't-panic-yay and then some work stuff went wrong and I wanted to kill someone. And then the WHO raised the threat level and I got deluged with emails from people concerned about reported cases fifty miles from me. And the, to top it off, there was a rant in a Torchwood community about the unlikelihood of Gwen needing to learn to use a gun because she's a police officer and surely it's an urban legend that UK police officers don't carry firearms.
OK, maybe I'm not as calm as I thought.
Calm. I am calm.
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Date: 2009-04-27 10:00 pm (UTC)Our latest one (a rescue cat), has her own particular set of meows, and will readily talk to us.
Culture misunderstandings. I'm sure there are loads of things I don't know about the US.
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Date: 2009-04-27 08:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-27 09:02 pm (UTC)BTW, I'm fine and there is no need for me to wear bloody face masks or get a flu shot that has no effect against swine flu anyway. Why do people get panicked about these things?
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Date: 2009-04-28 08:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-27 09:55 pm (UTC)Because the masses don't think for themselves and believe the tabloids when they have headlines like,
Swine flu in Britain: Two Scottish holidaymakers test positive for deadly virus
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Date: 2009-04-28 06:04 pm (UTC)I'm up in Canada so I don't think the news is quite as crazy as it is in the States, but I'm trying to ignore most news outlets because they're frothing at the mouth now. And with only six cases in the entire country (all of whom have recovered with only mild symptoms), there are already at least two countries advising people not to travel here. Yay.
In a year's time when everyone is finally admitting that it was as over-hyped as bird flu, I shall chuckle quietly to myself :-)