[Info-vax] Text processing examples with Fortran requested

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <3aWdnUPDSc4WGZnWnZ2dnUVZ_j6dnZ2d at giganews.com>,
	"Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> writes:
> John Santos wrote:
>> In article <3NecTW+tNix5 at eisner.encompasserve.org>, 
>> koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org says...> 
>>> In article <7mia17F3i6h8eU1 at mid.individual.net>, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
>>>> In article <007f2bc1$0$26892$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>,
>>>> 	JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
>>>>> Same with H1N1.
>>>> Yeah, more time, effort and money has been wasted on that already than
>>>> if there actually had been a pandemic.  But I am sure there are people
>>>> profiting nicely from all this.
>>>    There are also kids who are dead from this, and I don't intend mine
>>>    to be amoung them.
>> 
>> Including the son of my oldest friend, who died at age 17 one week ago.
>> 
>> This is real, don't be an idiot, Bill.
>> 
>> 
> 
> I've had the flu!  I'd almost rather be run over by a truck!  A simple 
> once a year injection is not a big deal.  It's often offered free by 
> employers, county health departments, etc.
> 
> It makes good sense for employers to supply "free" flu shots.  Without 
> flu shots one "Typhoid Mary" can wipe out a whole department!  One 
> employee out sick for seven days costs any company enough to pay for 
> several hundred flu shots! (Figure five "sick days" and the wages of a 
> temporary replacement.)
 
I never said not to take reasonable caution.  I get a flu shot every
year.  I actually fall into three catagories that make it necessary.
(Age, military service and deployable status) I also have had shots
for dozens of other diseases tha many hear have probably never even
heard of.  None of that changes the fact that this is being over-hyped
just like Y2K and that has a very good chance of causing people who
need to be concerned to not take it seriously at all.  What's worse,
it is possible that this is not the time of the feared pandemic and
that when nothing happens after all the hype even less will take it
seriously next time when it may actually be the real thing.

Hype is never better than facts.

For those who are really interested in this subject I suggest reading:

"Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918
and the Search for the Virus that Caused It" 
by Gina Kolata 
 

bill

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