'That was sloppy security, Len. Very Sloppy.'
Read The Stand when I was 12 - probably a bad idea in retrospect - and if there were any mortality so far here in the US I probably would be panicked.
I'm still puzzling how this story got so big in 24 hours and deep into contemplating Occam's Razor for a simple solution.
For months after reading that book, every cough, every sneeze, and you’d sort of wonder, what if...
I think it's been longer than 24 hours. And, it the fact that the flu is killing young (20 and 30 year olds, not infants) people and it's not killing people with compromised immune systems. That is a very ominous sign for people that study and research influenza strains.
It could very well turn out to be nothing, but it's the age of the victims that is sounding the alarm right now.
My 13 year old son had just started reading The Stand on a car trip. As we headed into a tunnel, I told him, “This is the last time you will go through one of these and not be freaked out.”