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[ornerie]

hmmm

if we get a national health care option, and everyone who doesnt have private insurance gets on it, and then there's a major H1N1 pandemic like they're predicting this fall....

that's gonna suck. cause it will still be a new system, without the financial resources built up to handle a large scale payout so early in the game.

oooo boy.

*toddles off to make sure assets are liquid, bills are paid and job is secure....*

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[ornerie.livejournal.com]

I get daily updates from the centers for disease control (I'm a geek :)). there is indeed a flu pandemic.......just like there is every year. there's already almost 8000 cases in the US this year (IIRC), and that's slightly less than there usually is, something that you wisely note will not likely be reported :)

I found it very interesting that this public outcry on the pandemic happened about the time major public health funding was being threatened..... so i twouldnt suprise me a bit if it wasnt a combo of news wanting to sell stories, and public health offices trying to justify their exhistance to a jaded misinformed public.

pandemic just means a disease wave thats spread worldwide....but as you point out, Joe Public adds in the bit about LETHAL OMG WE"RE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!!

dont tell anyone, but I'm not sure I'm gonna correct him, if that means public funding manages to maintain a good level I'm ok with that :)

[copper-oxide.livejournal.com]

And what you say about the "slightly less" or even about normal is what I have understood as well. Some of my co-workers seem to have taken the worst-case scenario reports to heart.

Speaking of normal, in a bit of a hijack, do you know of a recipe for zucchini bread that is more interesting than the the average? 95% of the zucchini b. I've been given or made myself is nice, but not delicious. I want something that forces the eyelids up.

[ornerie.livejournal.com]

mmm zucchini bread....
I use NF yogurt in mine...do you have access to The Best Recipe, the cookbook from cooks illustrated? their recipe is really good. I add in a bunch of stuff like toasty pecans, extra spices and sometimes chocolate chips :)

[copper-oxide.livejournal.com]

thanks. Pecans add fabulousness to everything, so they should give zucchini bread a boost.
I don't have that recipe book :-( so many books, as they say.
I wonder about baking it in a outdoor brick oven????hummmm

[ornerie.livejournal.com]

I'll try and manage to type it in for you at some point (maybe tomorrow?)... its a good one and fairly low in fat! yay!