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I didn't find it annoying. In fact I find it amusing that I'm going to steal all of the women.

That realization hit one of my conceited and intellectually smug engineering acquientences when I told him what my Y2K vault consisted of.

Don't you worry though, my kindergarten report card indicates: shares well with others.

I'll farm some of 'em out and herd a few up north. /sarcasm off I don't know, as far's the washin' the hands thing: whar's the prollem? And you know what? I think it needs to be said: when you wash your hands use soap AND water, o.k? I know that a lot of you think your SO smart but it would escape you to consider having packs of those germicidal packets in your car that you would use to wash your hands the moment you came in from the grocery.

You know what else? I used to work as a lab tech in a metal phosphating company. I learned about acid and nasty bases extremely real quick, and to abstain from putting my fingers into my eyes, ears, nose, throat, face, genitalia, etc (without having washed them before hand).

I got to workin' in an office environment after that. The coffee pot. Just remember where your fingers have been (before and afterwards). One of that nastiest colds I EVER came down with was something I termed an eye cold. I was wearing contacts, and didn't pay attention to neither my surroundings, nor what the hell I was doing.

I'm not an ostrich (unlike many I know who are dismayed about the potential implications of any plausible upcoming pandemic), but I want to stress one thing: should worse come to worse, the worse you can imagine won't even do justice to what occurs.

I'm telling you one thing: these threads are great; they keep us apraised of the upcoming threat. But they actually do very little with respect to minimizing risk. That's my point. I threw some gallows humor in there, and you jump down my throat. That's fine. That don't mean I'm not watching this extremely closely (including drilling into whatever links are presented by whomever about whatever).

Never can know too much is my thinkin'. You want to counter that?