OK fellas Speedbead had the idea for the trip date All of us that wanted to meet at Cabelas in HAMBURG IN ne pa WILL BE THERE FOR 1:00pm on Mon. Jan 15

They have a resturant there and we can go over some stuff ofr CAST evenmt at Beltsville in Sept All Interested Please post here

Dominick,

I will try to be there.

Ronnie

HEY THATS A LONG TRIP FOR YOU IF YOU CANT MAKE IT NO BIG DEAL . ME YOU AND RON WILL HAVE 10 DAYS TO DISCUSS THE CAST EVENT, AND MR. PASLEY WILL BE AT THE FORK SO IM SURE WE WILL GWET SOME MUCH NEEDED INFO FROM BOTH HE AND RUSS ANYWAY

Awesome, count me in. I will try and recruit BadKarma42 to come along too.

Wayne

Sorry Muddy, but I've got to work on MLK day reviewing details of the Physical Inventory at my company so we can be back in business on Tuesday.

come on any more of you

gots to do the obscene four letter word that day.    work. :-[

That would be awesome but, with the sinus infections, strep throats and just feeling crappy pandemic in this area I have a feeling that I will be in my scrubs for awhile. Is all this stuff going on in your areas as well?

Hey Jim I work at a Job Corps Center with 600 kids in residence It is always like one big petrie dish full of mucous here  

Yea Muddy. This batch of crap going around has been a horror, especially for young children and the elderly in the nursing homes. All the ER's and Urgent Care facility's have been on RED ALERT around here. I have been so sick for over a week now that I can't see straight in addition to those 12-14 hour days. This  latest strain just seems to hang on as well, sometimes for two or three weeks. Plenty of fluids, maybe some Zyrtec and rest is about all you can do. I hope your kids fair well.

The kids shake it better than us old farts. Tow years ago , what ever vaccine they used was useless against a Flu strain that came in with the kids form DC. It was the first time the center had to be closed for a week and all the kids sent home because so many of us were sick we could not meet safe staffing levels.

Our staff is starting to get it now we had 9 call offs over this weekend already.

All those years of giving antibiotics for the least little sniffle has caught up to our society. I can remember many years ago a doc and I had a conversation along those lines. He said that with all the antibiotics given for the least little thing would encourage viral strains to mutate. I guess he was not far off. Also, the world has gotten much smaller as in traveling between country's. Viruses have many more vectors to use to move around as well as mutate to adapt to the different environments they were previously accustomed to. You and I are talking influenza but what happens when other viruses find more and frequent vectors to travel with. Ebola, West Nile, etc. I did a research paper in college about the Ebola outbreaks in some of the providences in Africa. Scary stuff to say the least. Its not if it happens but, when. I know our country is not as prepared or, at least not as prepared as it should be. Sorry to ramble Muddy, but, we talk about this stuff all the time and the American people are blind to our preparedness in these types of situations. Terrorism has added another critical factor to this equation as well. I hope I did not light a fire with my answer back to you, I just thought you might find it interesting. Thanks for reading my ramble. Kudos for you working at a Job Corps Center       www.bt.cdc.gov/

http://www.cdc.gov/flu/