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BurkeanSon is back to his normal, bouncy self.  Playing outside and bouncing off the walls at bedtime.  But when it was time to start schoolwork today he said he was “tired from the flu.”  Clearly he mistakes me for the kind of person who thinks government can make health care cheaper and more readily available. 

It is easy to recognize, and mock, media hype and hysteria when you see it.  Harder to to resist the cry of hysteria when it is your child that is sick.  When the BurkeanSon’s temperature hit 102 early this week, I freely admit the media’s swine flu hysteria got to me. BurkeanSon is normally a [...]

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