Jonny Nexus

Tag: swine flu

  • I’m Not Sure That’s Helping

    Human life has always involved balancing risks against reward, and I sometimes think that the more information we have available to us, the harder this gets. Take swine flu, for example. Compared with some diseases of the past, this is a pussy-cat, and yet it’s already managed to escalate to a serious political crisis. When…

  • Panic, Counter-Panic, And Those Standing Firm

    In my office, much of the talk is of swine flu, as I’m sure is the case everywhere. Fits of coughing are greeted with perfectly timed mutters of: “And there goes the first one…” while statements in scheduling meetings are inevitably laced with qualifications that any time estimates are dependent on us not dying beforehand.…