“Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world; yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones that crash down on our heads from a blue sky.” --The Plague
The Swine Flu has cast an ugly shadow over the picture of "touchdown" Jesus at the University of Notre Dame. Here is the university's press release about the student. Wonder if this will change the President's plan to attend the disputed appearance at the university or at least provide cover or an out.
Yes, we know that people have died and we will likely be struck down with the killer swine flu for even writing this, but a young man from Loyola University in Chicago is now recovering from a bout with the killer virus and has this message for the fearful and scared: "Don't freak out!!"
"I could hardly move," Hairsine said by phone. "It was a chore to get out of bed. I felt absolutely terrible. I feel like it still is the flu, but it's not so terrible that people should be freaking out the way they are."
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