The Los Angeles Times is reporting that recent two deaths in LA County are being investigated by the coroner as possibly resulting from swine flu. The location of the two suspected flu victims? Long Beach and La Mirada, two Orange County border towns.With most of the previously reported Southern California swine flu cases happening to be in San Diego County, it's like this maybe-great plague/maybe Y2K-style hype bubble is closing in on Orange County. At this rate, we're thinking (but never hopin
If you're a run-of-the-mill conspiracy-obsessed lefty, you're blaming the swine flu on corporate farming practices, operations that stuff livestock into dens of feces to create horrible humane condition ripe for all types of pathogens to mutate and infect humans. But if you're Hector Carreon, the former Buena Park city employee and fulltime pendejo who runs the gay-bashing, Jew-trashing La Voz de Aztlan, you blame the Jews.In a May 20 post writing under his pseudonym "Ernesto Cienfuego," Carreon
Got word that a new Mexican restaurant called SOL Cucina is slated to open in Newport Beach at the end of the month in the space vacated by Ristorante Mama Gina (251 Pacific Coast Highway, Newport Beach, CA 92660). Here are snippets from the website: "An open 'proscenium' kitchen with customer seating on three sides brings the immediacy and freshness of a beach taco bar to guests."Although most of the tacos I've eaten come from Santa Ana taquerias, most often grimy hole-in-the-walls
Thanks to the swine flu, it is common to see nurses and other hospital workers wearing special respirator masks. This has put hospitals and nurses at loggerheads--not over whether the masks should be worn but how often they should be changed out.Even though Sacramento-area hospitals say their nurses have been wearing the special masks, a nurse there became the first health worker in the state to die from swine flu. This has given weight to the argument to frequently change the protective mask
CNN carried a report this morning on physicians at the University of Kansas telling students to avoid coming in to the campus health clinic if they contract the H1N1 swine flu virus and that they instead ride it out in their dorm rooms.
That's keeping with federal guidelines California public schools plan to follow this flu season, when more swine flu cases are anticipated, to keep campuses open as long as possible, closing schools only as a last resort.
It's like U
Where would the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) be without crazy congressman Dana Rohrabacher? He can always be counted on for fun and games and it seems like every day we get a press release from them about the guy--almost as many emails as we get from the Republicans bashing Loretta Sanchez. Today's offering is ominously titled "Representative Dana Rohrabacher Says No to Preparing for H1N1 Flu Epidemic."The hook for this screed is today's H1N1--that's swine flu for us non-sc
Eight Orange County adults died of swine flu last week, reports the Orange County Register via the county Health Care Agency. That 33 percent increase in local deaths brings the total H1N1-related fatalities in this blessed region of ours to 32. Most of those suffered pre-existing conditions ranging from obesity to cancer to diabetes. Three, including one of those who died last week, were pregnant and four were children.
None, as near as we can tell, were cats.
