Mailund on the Internet

It is all over the news these days, the swine flu from Mexico.  The US has declared an emergency and the first cases have appeard in Europe.

How bad can it get?  Pretty bad, actually.

We are better prepared than we were in 1918, but still, we also travel a lot more, so a pandemic can spread fast if measures are not taken.

With the scare of the bird flu the last couple of years, one would hope that goverments are prepared, but of course it can also end up with a “boy that cried wolf” situation where people do not take the flu serious enough.

This might be a bad time to go to a busy airport, but I’m off to Heathrow now…

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Sorry, there won’t be a list this week.  I have not only been too busy to blog, but too busy even to read the blogs, so I don’t really feel up to trying to make a list for this week… it would have to be based on very quick scans of headlines and you have your RSS reader for that!

Oh well, I hope to catch up for next week.  I should, I think.  This week was crazy because I needed to finish some work before today, but for the rest of the week I am on the road (visiting London and Oxford) and should have plenty of blogging time when sitting in a hotel waiting for my slow laptop to finish MCMC runs.

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