H1N1

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Not trauma-related, unless you account for the impact of a global
pandemic on every level of trauma system staffing...

List veterans know that I'm not really very smart.  But I am fun to
watch.  So here's a stupid question from which I hope some useful
insights might arise:

Does anyone know somebody close to Maine who can give me the flu?

I want it.  I'm a healthy adult who wants to contract the virus and ride
it out so that I can get back to work.  I'm the father of an
immunosuppressed teenager, and I want to suffer the illness on my own
terms, in carefully planned isolation.  I'm an H1N1 virgin who sees an
advantage in embracing this early, mild iteration in hopes of acquiring
immunity against later mutations which are apt to return in the fall
with a vengeance.

My mother used to cart her kids around the neighborhood in hopes of
exposing us to the Chicken Pox early.  I'm wondering why we're all
running away from this stupid little bug.  I want to cough and sneeze
and shiver and ache for a week or so, and get it over with.

Is that so stupid?

Pret Bjorn, RN
Bangor, ME USA

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