PSA

The H1N1, or "swine flu", pandemic erupted early in 2009. On April 26, 2009, President Obama declared a Public Health Emergency; at that point, there had been 20 cases of H1N1 detected in the US, and no fatalities. The declaration, among other things, permitted the Federal distribution of twelve million doses of Tamiflu. In October of that year, with the pandemic worsening, Obama upgraded the declaration to a National Emergency.

The accusations of negligence being leveled at the Obama administration by Rudy Giuliani and his ilk are flat out lies.

Isolation Measures

My university has joined with a number of others in the area: spring break is being extended by one week, during which time we will be working on - possibly, it's not settled yet - transitioning to entirely on-line instruction for the remainder of the semester.

This is going to be a bitch.