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      <![CDATA[Sunday, when I stopped panicking that I had the flu and realized my 24+ hours of misery was due to BAD IVAR'S CLAM CHOWDER I ate on the ferry.<br />
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      <![CDATA[WRT "from a Seattle perspective," I've selected "Yawn" a couple of times in the online swine flu panic polling on SLOG, and I'm not a Seattleite. Don't live anywhere NEAR Seattle, actually.
        
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      <![CDATA[ah, ok, thanks.  slog comments are more fun than slog, but I guess that means I miss out on things.
        
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      <![CDATA[@4<br />
Too true. In fact, the media's overreaction to pretty much everything has sort of branded them a permanent "boy who cried wolf" in my mind. I could be laying in bed, coughing up blood and I probably still wouldn't believe their hype.
        
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      <![CDATA[@12 and 8: Jonah <a href="http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2009/05/05/cdc-confirms-nine-swine-flu-cases-in-washington">answered it for you</a>.<br />
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Mostly, I suspect there is a <em>huge</em> backlog at the CDC. At the other end of this chain there is probably some miserable tech doing thousands of PCR reactions--mostly of samples from the panicked well.
        
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      <![CDATA[Jonathan, can you answer the question at #8?  thanks!
        
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      <![CDATA[Everything happens on a Tuesday. <br />
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that's a <a href="http://macrumors.com/">macrumors.com</a> inside joke.
        
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      <![CDATA[just wash your hands and stop whining already.
        
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      <![CDATA["PS: if this flu comes back with a vengeance for a second round this summer, the media and the WHO will share equally in the blame when nobody pays any attention to their warnings."<br />
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      <![CDATA[Can anyone tell me why they have not yet confirmed *any* of the cases in WA?   I heard that they were going to release confirmation info over last week, but that obviously didn't happen. <br />
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The CDC has confirmed cases from 38 states:<br />
<a href="http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/">http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/</a><br />
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Did someone send the WA samples to the wrong address or something?<br />
        
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      <![CDATA[Thursday. The day I decided I would risk a packed room to see David Sedaris. Worth it!
        
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      <![CDATA[uh, I, and pretty much everyone I know, NEVER went into panic mode...only babies and pussies went koo-koo bananas.
        
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      <![CDATA[The second people started panicking. Yawn.
        
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      <![CDATA[PS: if this flu comes back with a vengeance for a second round this summer, the media and the WHO will share equally in the blame when nobody pays any attention to their warnings.
        
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      <![CDATA[I'm on record arguing against panic on the 25th.
        
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      <![CDATA[Fuck yourself sideways, Eli. This shit is real.
        
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      <![CDATA[It was Saturday because that was a day I was too busy to look at a computer and consequently missed out on a lot of hysteria and screaming and panic.  That was lovely!
        
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