[CheshireTheCat]

This is an excellent piece. You should try to submit it for publication somewhere.

My mother died in the winter of 2010 of pneumonia. She tested negative for the flu, but I wonder if the tests were flawed back then and there were many false negatives just like there are many false positives with tests now.

I don’t remember there being all that much in the news about a bad flu then or an abundance of public service announcements, but I was going through a rough time at my job and might have been distracted by it.

I can’t help wondering if there had been the appropriate focus in the media about the flu then that we might have handled it better, been more vigilant, taken better precautions, etc., and lives would have been saved.

[OneVike]

Thanks for your compliment.

I gave up on getting anything I write posted to places. I wrote for a few,. but was always limited in my opinionated ways. I write for a Christian site, and they say I get too political, I write for a political site and I’m too Religious. I write of a regular news site, and I am too political AND too religious.

I’ll take this route and see where it leads.

I agree on your thoughts, I often think the same thing.