We're lucky so far. I've heard that they're well on the way to having an effective vaccine. That could not only prevent a pandemic, but could be used by all those people who live where there are infected birds, too.

This would not necessarily be a disaster, anyway. That would depend on whether the virus mutates into a form which spreads easily from person to person, the way the forms of flu for which we now have vaccines do. It's just as likely, if not more likely, to mutate into a form that can sometimes be spread between humans but isn't all that likely to. You have to keep in mind that there's a tendency these days to scare the shit out of us about everything. Do you remember the swine flu? That was supposed to become a pandemic, that, too, was all over the news, and it never happened. There's still a vaccine for it stashed away somewhere. Fred Davenport developed it, and I worked down the hall from him.

There's too many fuckin' people in the world anyway.

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