I couldn't help co-opting & corrupting the title of a children's book my collegiate sons used to have about a geologic age ago entitled, Oink! Moo! How Do You Do? (I've long since forgotten the author of that toddler-friendly tome.) The (swine?) flu has been making its way through our local community, to the point that a private school in a nearby town has shuttered itself for the rest of the week. This is because nearly 300 of their students AND a number of teachers are (allegedly!) infected with it. If, indeed, it IS the swine flu, then so much for the efficacy of the vaccine that won't be available until NOVEMBER!
Meanwhile, everyone in town is buying hand sanitizer & antibacterial soaps--which don't do much against influenza VIRUSES--& Lysol, which DOES kill germs AND viruses. Right about now I wish we'd get a raging COLD SNAP (say, overnight temperatures in the 20s) that would KILL everything in the air, we might just feel better! Sadly, our overnight lows right now are in the upper 60s; I don't see a frost hitting for at least another month and a half. ("Frost on the pumpkin," common in October north of the Mason-Dixon line, doesn't really apply here before Thanksgiving--if that early!)
Pray the flu in ALL its forms (swine, type A, & otherwise) misses me and mine--I'll do the same for you, dear readers!
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