Elsewhere

Oh wow, go read the comments section on Ygelsias’s blog about media consolidation. The amount of faith that those people put in democracy is breath taking. There is such ironic humor in a democratic socialist criticizing someone for having faith in a god.

The comments about trial lawyers at futurepundit are perhaps interesting but I wouldn’t call them ‘realistic’.

Given that this flu may kill due to immune system overreaction, I am not so sure that a vaccine is even the right aproach. I’d want an opinion from someone with a deep understanding of the human immune system’s function as to whether a cytokine storm was more or less likely in an immunized person before considering such vaccination.