Just a reminder that the Historical Society's encampment will be this Saturday from 8 a.m. until 8 p.m. There will be plenty of things going on, and the Whitehall Boy Scouts will also be there for the day holding a camp out of their own.

Posted by Keith Lobdell at 02:41 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

I have got to be honest, I watch all this coverage of the Swine Flu on the news and see that they are testing people in the county for it, and I just roll my eyes. The World CDC released numbers on Wednesday that while 100 people (all from Mexico) had died from the piggy virus, 130,000 have died this year world-wide from the flu - any flu - all flus - period. That's a difference of 129,900.

I understand that in the world of 24-hour news, they have to cover something. If one of the people being tested is from Whitehall, we will have a story. But i really don't think that this is a pandemic.

I heard someone today say that the Swine flu spreading throughout the entire country was not "immenent" but "inevitable." Don't those two words mean basically the same thing? What is being said here is that it is not going to happen soon, but it will happen soon. Okay. It;s the over-hyping of something that could be simplified.

Now if I get flu-like symptoms, I will go to the doctors, get some antibiotics and some Nyquil, and stay in bed for the next three days - the same thing i would do every other time I have gotten the flu.

 

Posted by Keith Lobdell at 12:34 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)