This week I got my annual flu shot. Because I am 65, the nurse told me that it is a much stronger dose. My arm felt like someone swung a hammer at it for the next two days, but having had the Hong Kong flu in 1968, where I thought I was going to die, I wouldn't miss getting my shot for the world.
I went to see "Contagion", which is about a global viral pandemic. It scares the crap out of me to think how easily terrorists could spread a lethal virus. Of course, they would have to have an antidote and hope that even if they did, the virus wouldn't mutate and be immune to the antidote.
It must have unnerved everyone in the theater as much as it did me, because everyone rushed to the restrooms to wash their hands when the movie ket out and I saw a few women pulling hand sanitizers out of their purses, but with so many things becoming resistant to antibiotics from overuse coupled with the mobility of the world population, we should be more concerned about this type of terrorist attack than someone flying a plane into a building.
In the meantime, I am disinfecting my remote, doorknobs, the lightswitches, the toilet flusher handle.....
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