Bring me the head of Diego Garcia...and the Mayor of Addu Atoll too!

[Grollub]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

This year the vaccine sounds like a Wee Jap Dobber attack plan for OZ (H1N1/ A Brisbane / B Perth).

Point. Or it's a code name for some new flying thing. H1N1 sounds like an aircraft model along the line A6M1, D3A1 and so on ...

[moore4807]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

The doctors are getting murderized with influenza out here in California. I think it peaked about a week ago. Thing is the CDC got it right this year and the vaccine has very good coverage. Now all the people who declined the vaccine because they "never get sick" are coming in whining for antibiotics. If one more idiot asks for a "Z-pack"...why I....will do nothing...and smile patiently because nobody wants to hear "I told you so". Fortunatley, Tamiflu works pretty well.


This year the vaccine sounds like a Wee Jap Dobber attack plan for OZ (H1N1/ A Brisbane / B Perth). It also occurs to me that WAAAAY too many influenza strains are named after Australian cities. You people down there need to wash your hands better. In fairness, the H1N1 strain is called California H1N1 even though everybody knows it came from Mexico. It seems there is political correctness even in virology.

Emerging Infectious Diseases (vol. 17, No. 2, Feb. 2011, pp. 255-257) had a breakdown on upwards of 1000 isolates of pH1N1 from humans last year. >99% of the viral isolates were susceptible to Oseltamivir. Better living through chemistry, mate.

Now, can you claim time on this forum for CE? [;)]

Enclosed find one hour credit for on-line medical consulting and education. Your Continuing Education credits are good in any State accepting these credits... [:D][:D][:D]

BTW - I got the shot this year after MY physician correctly surmised that the CDC "finally" got it right this year too.
This shot did me well until today, when my wife's ongoing URI finally wore me down and I've now got the sniffles and sore throat. YES I stayed home and am posting now for that very reason..

[;)][;)][;)]

[Onime No Kyo]

So let me see if I got this right. People who do not get flu shots are idiots. People who do get flu shots are idiots. People who get the flu are idiots. People who ask for antibiotics are idiots. People who dont ask for antibiotics are idiots. People who live in A Brisbane and B Perth are idiots who dont wash their hands. Youre right, this vaccine does have pretty good coverage. [:D]

[moore4807]

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

So let me see if I got this right. People who do not get flu shots are idiots. People who do get flu shots are idiots. People who get the flu are idiots. People who ask for antibiotics are idiots. People who dont ask for antibiotics are idiots. People who live in A Brisbane and B Perth are idiots who dont wash their hands. Youre right, this vaccine does have pretty good coverage. [:D]

Nice analysis!

I think its the CDC that WERE the idiots for the past two years for picking the "wrong" influenza strains to protect against. However they got off the idiot list this year for getting it right!

Idiots who did'nt get this years shot ARE idiots because it has inconvenienced/overwhelmed the medical practices who now have OVER twice the average idiots per day "whining" for antibiotics!

One of the stressed out medical practioners has noticed an Australian continent anomaly in the flu type identifiers and combined this with his hobby of early twentieth century conflict resolution to the delight of his loyal AAR readers!

Pure Genius! Somebody get a scriptwriter in here!

[&o][:D][&o][:D][&o]

[anarchyintheuk]

ORIGINAL: moore4807

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

So let me see if I got this right. People who do not get flu shots are idiots. People who do get flu shots are idiots. People who get the flu are idiots. People who ask for antibiotics are idiots. People who dont ask for antibiotics are idiots. People who live in A Brisbane and B Perth are idiots who dont wash their hands. Youre right, this vaccine does have pretty good coverage. [:D]

Nice analysis!

I think its the CDC that WERE the idiots for the past two years for picking the "wrong" influenza strains to protect against. However they got off the idiot list this year for getting it right!

Idiots who did'nt get this years shot ARE idiots because it has inconvenienced/overwhelmed the medical practices who now have OVER twice the average idiots per day "whining" for antibiotics!

One of the stressed out medical practioners has noticed an Australian continent anomaly in the flu type identifiers and combined this with his hobby of early twentieth century conflict resolution to the delight of his loyal AAR readers!

Pure Genius! Somebody get a scriptwriter in here!

[&o][:D][&o][:D][&o]

Depends on your pov. Whining in this instance sounds very much like revenue stream. For the record, I've never gotten a flu shot.

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

So let me see if I got this right. People who do not get flu shots are idiots.

Correct.

People who do get flu shots are idiots.

Incorrect.

People who get the flu are idiots.

Not necessarily. Disease happens. People who get the flu after declining excellent preventive and early treatment options are, however, idiots.

People who ask for antibiotics are idiots.

Usually. Particularly if they ask for antibiotics for a primary (or exclusively) viral disease, such as influenza. These people are just begging to develop either antibiotic resistance or have no understanding of the pharmacological rationale for such prescription medications.

People who dont ask for antibiotics are idiots.

Not usually. People who decline antibiotics when they are the treatment method of choice for a particular disease, particularly when they decline them in favor of the medical equivalent of magic pixie dust, are idiots.

People who live in A Brisbane and B Perth are idiots who dont wash their hands.

People anywhere that don't wash their hands regularly during flu season are idiots.

I sure hope this has helped, comrade Red Mouse. [:)]

[sprior]

The Hurris have fun over Mandalay:

[Smeulders]

Oscars versus Hurricanes is just unsporting. They can hit the Hurricanes 10 times and then they have a head on collision with a fly and they go down.

[anarchyintheuk]

The Vanguards and Lancers self-destructing on ground may also have scared the Oscars.

[anarchyintheuk]

ORIGINAL: Smeulders

Oscars versus Hurricanes is just unsporting. They can hit the Hurricanes 10 times and then they have a head on collision with a fly and they go down.

True, I thought the RAF was committed sporting behavior by using inferior equipment, tactics and pilots in Burma.

[sprior]

Wait til we get Spitfires, then we'll be really unsporting.

[AW1Steve]

ORIGINAL: sprior

Wait til we get Spitfires, then we'll be really unsporting.

Being sporting is so over rated. Wait till you get Mustangs,Hellcats and Coursairs! Now that's unsporting![:D]

[Cap Mandrake]

That is the thing about the Hurri. Unless the round hits the pilot or engine there is just a faint tearing sound and a couple inches of duct tape when you get back to base.

[stuman]

ORIGINAL: Ossian

ORIGINAL: Moondawggie

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake



<recalls in horror at the thought that >50% of Americans have Scotch/Irish backgrounds>

Actually, immigration explains that seeming conundrum, Cap:

Most of the smart ones got the hell out of Scotland and Ireland ASAP and came to America.

The dumb ones stayed behind.

A few hundred years later, after several more generations of inbreeding among what's left, you get these whitebread Hip-Hop moron wannabees pictured in the video.

"Devolution" at work!

It's a classic example of natural selection and population genetics in action.

Hey! [:@] Some of us are still here! I can almost count to five and have never hardly stabbed anyone.

Neds are a bit of local colour, like the Amish or something. With less barn building. And more Buckfast.

Any more of this viscous slander and King Sean the first will authorize a new Susan Boyle album. You all heard what she did to 'Wild Horses,' Just think what she could do to ZZ Top.

[:D]

[Grollub]

Armost page two. Bump!

[Cap Mandrake]

To give you and idea how thoroughly the English language has been bastardized in Southern California, my hot neighbor with the bolt-ons hired a roofing contractor to replace her roof.

Carefully lettered on the side of the truck is "El Rufo Company" [:(]

I had to look twice. To begin with, "rufo" isn't even the Spanish word for "roof". To make matters worse the article is Spanish and "company" is in English, of course. Not to mention that the actual Spanish word for "company" calls for the feminine article. I don't even know what the say. Is calling something "El Rufo Company" a marketing decision? Are they trying to have a broad appeal? I suppose it is meant to be some kind of cross-cultural bridge.

Santa Maria!


**************************July 30, 1942***********************


South Pacific: An S boat put a torp into a tanker near Kirakira, wherever that is. The bombers at Suva didn't fly again. I wonder if there is some kidn of creeping morale problem. The ground bombardment attacks at Nadi have gone negative again and the assault value of the WJD's seems to be increasing. I am thinking of asking General Patton to come by.

Oz: In perhaps the biggest single raid of heavy bombers to date in the Pacific, 40 x B-17E and 7 x B-24 roughed up elements of the IJA 20th and 5th Div at Katherine. That makes at least 5th, 20th and 38th Div still at Katherine.

China: The WJD's have launched soem kind of summer offensive and are killing or wounding large numbers of WCD's. I would give you more information but I dont know where any of the cities are.

[Alfred]

Kirakira is a dot base 120 nm SE of Tulagi.

Alfred

[Cap Mandrake]

*****************El Cholo Club, near bomber strip, Suva Aerodrome, Fiji, July 30, 1942**************



A dozen young USAAF officers in flight jackets are gathered around a hirsute man in an orange pilots uniform with grey pinstripes.


Hirsute man in an orange pilots uniform with grey pinstripes: ....look, we all have the same goal. We ALL want for this to be over and to go home to our homes and families, right? God knows, this is my third time.

Young USAAF officer: Third time?

Hirsute man in an orange pilots uniform with grey pinstripes: Yes, third time.

Young USAAF officer: Do you mean Captain, this is your third war?

Hirsute man in an orange pilots uniform with grey pinstripes: Yes, A, B, and C.

Young USAAF officer: Don't you mean I and II sir?

Hirsute man in an orange pilots uniform with grey pinstripes: No, I mean A, B and C.

Young man in fine linen slacks: Captain, Yossarian. Aren't you straying off topic? The business opportunity?

Hirsute man in an orange pilots uniform with grey pinstripes: Oh, yeah, the business opportunity. Right, it's like this. What is the best way to achieve that goal, through a top-down command and control model or by harnessing the restless spirit of innovation and creativity that resides in all of us?

Young man in fine linen slacks: <soto voce> Son of a bitch! That was damn good!................

[Onime No Kyo]

Buzzword bingo!

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

Buzzword bingo!

Dood;

This is 1942. Where do you think Reagn's speechwriters will get their inspiration?