Good morning! Brett and I will be switching off Morning News for awhile.
So!
A huge ice shelf is breaking up in Antarctica, the economy did even
worse than expected in the first quarter of the year, and President
Obama gave an important press conference marking his first 100 days in
office.
But you don’t care, do you? You just want to know about swine flu.
Yeah, me too. The World Health Organization raised the threat level to 5 for the first time,
well, ever, signaling that a pandemic is imminent. A little kid just
shy of his second birthday was the first confirmed US death. Schools
across the country are closing to stop the spread of the disease.
Screw
the masks we’re all supposed to be thinking about; I want a paper bag I
can breathe into when the panic begins to overwhelm, thanks.
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