Recent happenings:
I just finished my seminar paper last week. 22 pages of gloom and doom, with footnotes, about the threat of a viral pandemic, how the US is unprepared but starting to recognize the threat, how the world is scrambling to prepare, and how the preparations are causing a threat to the health of US citizens. The US and world governments are stockpiling supplies and medications, hospitals throughout the US are stockpiling supplies and medications, and now corporations are stockpiling supplies and medications. All this stockpiling is creating a strain on the manufacturing capacity of the pharmaceutical and medical supply makers, and hospital orders for current treatment needs are on backorder. Scary stuff, and I’ve learned way too much about viral threats, including how the black death was probably not caused by bubonic plague (it was more likely a hemmhoragic fever out of Africa, a la Ebola.)
In other news, quite the exciting Tuesday.
Upcoming:
Trial Advocacy final trial is this Saturday afternoon. Jurors, a judge, and a real courtroom in St. Louis County. Should be fun.
Four new photos are up.
