PANDEMIC FLU

TIME (2009) 8/17

SCHERER/ 18-29

PANDEMIC FLU

We are approaching the beginning of the H1NI. The author as well as the experts do not know how many will be made sick and the rest killed. Those most vulnerable are:

Individuals 0 to 4/ 18 to 49. Why that has happened, no one is sure. However, it does not mean that things could change and that mortality could not increase more dramatically in every category.

So what can you do about it? 1) Wash your hands all the time 2) Avoid putting your hands to your face 3. Buy rubber clothes for each day of the week 4) Get the shots if they are ready (5 Stay home 6) Wear a mask. It does not directly help, but may mute floating

Germs.

If you are quarantined, stay where you are. Stock up on food that is not perishable like can food. If things get real bad, it could be like Y 2 K. If you remember, that it was possible that the world would shut down because of computer malfunctions. So that means extra bottle water and drinks, non-perishable food and some logs. Why do all this?

Because, there may be so few truckers and haulers that basic commodities could not get to your home town.

The worst estimates are that 2 billion out of 7 billion could get it. 180 million could get sick here. So get ready. In some ways, we have been here before.

NEWSWEEK (2009) 8/17/ 69

SUMMERS

SELLING HOUSES THAT KILLINGS OCCURRED IN THEM

Jon Bebenet Ramsey’s house- lost $350,000

Mendez house—lost 1.2 million

Heaven Gates Mansion- lost $900,000 and was bulldozed to the ground.

Amityville Horror House- lost $250,000

Sharon Tate House- not immediately put on the market for 12 years.

Nicole Brown Simpson House- lost $200,000

Clutter Farm (In Cold Blood) 1 dollar

Jeffery Dahmer Apartment, a non profit bought entire building and over $100,000

THE ECONOMIST (2009) 8/1 / 25

BLUE DOG DEMOCRATS (2009) 8/1/25

BLUE DOGS are generally moderate to conservative Democrats. The Blue part of the name comes from yellow dog democrats. That means that a person would vote for a yellow Democrat or vote until they are yellow if they were a Democrat. When the 1994 Democratic Party lost huge to the Gingrich revolution, Blue Dogs emerged to say that they were Democrats, but not Liberal like the majority of the party. Generally, when Republicans were way ahead, Blue Dogs were not very relevant. Now the Democrats are the major party. If the Blue Dogs are forsaken, the Democratic Party becomes a minority party again. If you are Liberal, you should probably defer to them, because in the long run they make the party a major party. Ideological purity is a path way to