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Cassandra 2012
___ I’m feeling increasingly bleak about the human future going into 2012. I say this without the least pleasure because I have two small children (one is five, the other is eight). I don’t want anything I point to here … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012, apocalypse now, Cassandra, H1N5, Iran, Israel, pessimism, predictions, The Book of Revelation, the end, The Plague
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I Got My Swine Flu Shot Today (and Albert Camus Would Have Gotten His Swine Flu Shot Too)
“No man is an island. Each is a part of the main.” This afternoon my wife, my three and five year old daughters, and I all went to the doctor to get our swine flu shots. We got our regular flu … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Camus, existentialism, fitness, flu season, H1N1, health, nutrition, philosophy, swine flu, The Plague, viruses, winter
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Read Albert Camus’s “The Plague” Ahead of Swine Flu (H1N1) Season?
Documentary filmmaker, John Pilger, recommends Albert Camus’s The Plague as a good read ahead of our upcoming pandemic swine flu (H1N1) season: A novel which tells the tale of the devastating plague visited on the Algerian town of Oran, it … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Camus, death, H1N1, Job, life, pandemic, solidarity, suffering, swine flu, the book of Job, The Plague, the problem of suffering
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Iran’s Protesters and Two of Albert Camus’s Protagonists: Meursault and Dr. Rieux
I see characteristics of the brave Iranian protesters in two characters in Albert Camus’s novels. Meursault (the protagonist of The Stranger ) and Dr. Rieux (the protagonist of The Plague ) are both possessed of admirable heroic qualities. Rieux is … Continue reading
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How Dangerous is This New Strain of Swine Flu? Researchers Should Have a Clearer Idea by May 10, 2009
Today is May 1, 2009, and here’s what the AP is saying about H1N1 (the new strain of swine flu): Researchers will get a better idea of how dangerous this virus is over the next week to 10 days, said … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Camus, Camus, disease, epidemic, exercise, flu, H1N1, health, pandemic, Peter Palese, swine flu, The Plague
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Tissues and Sanitizing Hand Wipes: Two Inexpensive Things That You Need to Buy and Use Now to Protect Yourself, and Your Family, from Swine Flu
According to the New York Times today, Britain has started a new ad campaign to slow the spread of Swine Flu: In Britain on Thursday, authorities launched an advertising campaign urging people to sneeze into tissues and to wash their … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Camus, epidemic, exercise, fear, flu, health, pandemic, safety, sleep, swine flu, The Plague, yoga
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How to Protect Yourself, And Your Family, from Getting or Spreading Swine Flu: Dr. Joe Bresee of the CDC’s Influenza Division
Accurate health information on Swine Flu from Dr. Joe Bresee (of the CDC’s Influenza Division):
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How Fast Can a Swine Flu Vaccine Be Made and Distributed?
According to Time magazine, four to six months: [E]ven if the CDC‘s seed stock of virus were to be released to vaccine makers today, it would take the companies anywhere from four to six months before the first inoculation could … Continue reading
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Swine Flu and Albert Camus: What You Should Do to Protect Not Just Yourself, But Others
Obsidian Wings recently invited a guest blog post on swine flu, co-written by an immunologist and bioethicist. The advice that they offered on swine flu amounted to a list of Albert Camus-like existential responsibilities that we have to one another in … Continue reading
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Swine Flu Quote of the Day
John Donne’s “Meditation 17″ in 1624: “No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, … Continue reading
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Prometheus Unbound 