Take a look at that line. It's a line of ominous portent. It's the course of a hurricane of viral particles, sweeping across the globe. The CDC estimates 22 million have succumbed to the infection. 'Nothing can be done,' was the verdict hey rendered months ago, to prevent the pandemic. Vaccine is in short supply. People are wait-listed at clinics and stand in long lines at the Town Hall, hoping their children will be among the fortunate.
Dose this sound like a nightmare, or a bad science fiction film? It is and it's called "Real Life." I don't know, maybe that's too close to MTV's "Real World." But anyway, it's real. The fever, the respiratory distress. Chills and aches and these numbers:
17,838 Hospitalizations
672 Deaths
The government has established a dedicated website: http://flu.gov/
I wonder if they had to pay large sums of money to pry away the domain name from a paranoiac or if they can just seize it under provisions of the Patriot Act? Someone should look into this.
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