23 March 06

Avian Flu is My Life

I have a T shirt I made when I was working in Graduate Studies here at UC Davis that says “Commencement is my Life,” because it did seem to be for the months of March through mid-June every year. (I made a second one that said “Commencement is no longer my life” I’d wear the day after while I was on my way to visit DocRock who year after year conducted de-Commencement ministrations frivolous and serious, all of them necessary and all of them appreciated beyond words. Thanks Doc.)

I’m on a Yolo Audubon sub-committee organizing an Avian Flu Symposium in Davis (April 15th). It’s also becoming an increasingly time-consuming part of my work. Avian flu is predicted by scientists to arrive in North America by summer. Whether this one really does turn into a true human pathogen remains to be seen, but it seems sensible to behave as if it could. It has before. Lots of people died.

So now when we wander around the Coop we are looking at food that would keep well without refrigeration, we’re thinking about how to store it, what to do about water, how to hunker. We’re thinking about emergency preparedness. A bit late, I know, but time to start. We’re probably going to buy a much larger solar cooker, too…

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  1. I’ve been thinking about hunkering, too—especially this morning, with news of Mexico denying an outbreak at the border! And now that Commencement really IS no longer your life at all (except metaphorically, in various pursuits), let’s us two develop an alternative revitalization project for the same time of year. I’m going to need one this year!
    — Doc Rock    23. March 2006, 09:28    Link
  2. Solar Cooker International… I haven’t seen that name in several years. I used to be member back in the eighties when it was still a four-page newsletter. Made several of their cardboard ovens. I really have to get back to it. It’s really a lot of fun.

    Keep those bicycles oiled!
    — butuki    23. March 2006, 09:37    Link

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