I've taken a summer break from posting, and now it's time to get back to ranting and raving like a conservative "asshole", as Van Jones would put it.   To digress for a moment, the proper way to apologize for calling people assholes is to say 'I'm sorry you're an asshole'.  Come on Van Jones - you're an asshole too, but show a little political guts!

OK, digression over.

So this week I had a minor but painful medical issue that required a trip to my primary care Doc, and then I was passed to a specialist Doc for further evaluation, and lastly paid a visit to a lab facility to have vampires draw blood for testing.  It was all good.  I think I have a great primary care doc, and the specialist was as thorough as thorough could be.  A relief to learn the issue was not major, as I feared, and easily/quickly cured with prescription meds. 

Yeah I know, you think I'm winding up for another healthcare rant.  Though another such conservative asshole rant is in the planning stages, my successful foray into private insurance provided healthcare is just a wind up to something I noticed along the way.

At each of the offices I visited this week, I noticed that all the waiting rooms were crammed full of magazines for patients to pass the time away while waiting their turn with the Doctors, and the vampires.  "So what" you say?  Well, with all the rather dark and sometimes draconian predictions for almost medieval pandemic worries over H1N1 Swine Flu this coming Autumn, it occurred to me that all those sick people - some already having started flowing through these facilities, thumbing through magazines as they sneeze and hack through their wait time, and then leave a little pathogen bomb waiting for the poor hapless slob that didn't have Swine Flu right up until they picked up the rag infected by the H1N1 carrier.

                (Don't touch that rag - you don't know where it's been!)


I am curious.  It seems an obvious thing that these magazines would become prime carriers of the virus to pass from one patient to the other, yet nobody seems to be thinking about that.  Or perhaps not yet.  Well, at least I noticed.

And to expand this one step further - whether it's a Doctors Office, or the Dentist, or Hair Stylist, or any other type of facility where you have to wait for service, and get entertained with a stack of mags - they should ALL be removed temporarily until the Swine thing works its way out, for better or worse.  Which would you rather be - bored sitting in a waiting room staring at the floor instead of reading a rag, or deathly ill?

So, my sage advice to all is: if the powers that be don't realize the above, and magazines don't disappear soon, then DON'T PICK ONE UP!!!!  Keep some Purell in the car, and wash up after you have to visit those places where chairs and mags and whatever else must be shared, and shared alike.

Good luck out there, even if you are a liberal asshole like Harry Reid. 

The Stupid Nation lives on.

PS. Harry - I'm sorry you're an asshole.