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H1N1

Charlene M Morris cvmmorris at gmail.com
Fri May 1 13:02:32 BST 2009


oh Pret-- you renegade you!!!

yah-- the press has made this important and in the process, scared the
bejeebers outta folks.

pffft.

cmm

On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 8:00 AM, Bjorn, Pret <pbjorn at emh.org> wrote:

> 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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The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference
between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The
first is imperative and the second is disastrous.
Margot Fonteyn


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