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Fri May 1 16:37:03 BST 2009

Porcus fugit.

jim

On Fri, 1 May 2009 10:53:33 -0400, "Heist, Jeffrey"
<Jeffrey_Heist at trihealth.com> wrote:
> Hey Everyone,
> 
> With all the hype I thought this would be a good time to let everyone
know
> that the "Flying Pig Marathon" is here in Cincinnati this weekend. Flying
> Pigs!!! That should make the government nervous. It is Boston Qualifier
> race. Come join us and watch out for the flying pigs.
> 
> Jeffrey M. Heist RN, CEN
> 
> Jeffrey M. Heist RN, CEN, NREMT-B, EMSI
> EMS Coordinator Bethesda North Hospital
> Classroom Coordinator/Education Specialist
> Bethesda North Paramedic Training Program
> 10498 Montgomery Rd Suite A
> Cincinnati, OH 45242
> office # 513-745-2351
> pager # 513-303-9247
> cell #     513-293-1796
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: trauma-list-bounces at trauma.org
> [mailto:trauma-list-bounces at trauma.org] On Behalf Of ghowd at statems.net
> Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 10:21 AM
> To: Trauma and Critical Care mailing list
> Subject: Re: H1N1
> 
> SARS, Avian, West Nile, Swine...the same pattern results again : The Feds
> don't want to look incompetent and the media spins for ratings while the
> masses gobble it up. A disdainful "Oink" to them all.
> Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charlene M Morris <cvmmorris at gmail.com>
> 
> Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 08:02:32 
> To: Trauma and Critical Care mailing list<trauma-list at trauma.org>
> Subject: Re: H1N1
> 
> 
> 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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