IF THIS HAD BEEN BUSH... - AT 9:57 P.M. ET:  There's trouble with the flu vaccine, as Washington Times reports:

The H1N1 vaccine will arrive too late to help most Americans who will be infected during this flu season, according to a study conducted by scholars at Purdue University.

Can you imagine the reaction to this study if BUSH (!!) had been president?  Why, why, it's a medical Katrina!  It's an influenza Iraq!  It's Florida 2000!

And yet, there's no real reaction to this major failure, despite disturbing predictions:

The study also estimates that the virus - commonly referred to as the swine flu bug - will infect about 60 percent of the U.S. population, although only about 25 percent of Americans will fall ill.

That's quite a chunk of humanity.  Obviously, this is Bush's fault.

However, it's predicted that most cases will be mild. 

One of the researchers cautions us, with a rare touch of scholarly humility:

Ms. Towers cautioned in a phone interview with The Washington Times that while enough of the U.S. population probably won't get enough of the vaccine before or during the peak of the pandemic, that is no reason not to get protection.

"Based on our study alone it would be bad to discourage people from getting the vaccine, because what if our study is wrong," she said.

COMMENT:  Wrong?  WRONG?  How can a scientist possibly be wrong?  Does this mean that some of the global warming stuff...?

Don't go there.  Just don't go there.  Al Gore gets very upset.

October 20,  2009