Purplevision

Is this it? Really?

For years I have heard health professionals say:

a) like earthquakes, deadly disease pandemics happen with regularity
b) we are overdue for a pandemic
c) the next deadly strain of influenza is likely to come from pigs and from China where lots of people live closely with pigs

And then *bamm*, here comes swine flu from Mexico. Makes me think of 12 Monkeys or those other disease movies. A big map with cities on it, watching as the disease spreads by airplanes from one city to another. Scary stuff.

We are just about to get on a plane to Miami. I really wish I had the guts to wear one of those silly surgical masks. They just seem so out of place on a white guy in the USA...

Let's hope this swine flu passes and that pandemic experts are predicting waits another few decades.