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Stockpile, but don’t panic?

Is this honestly helping?
Residents are advised to stock their pantries with drinks, including three litres of water for each person each day, dried and long-life food such as canned meals, toilet paper, batteries, candles, matches, manual can openers and water sterilising tablets. Analgesics, masks, gloves, a thermometer, disinfectant and prescription medications [...]

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If you only read one thing today, read this.

Ben Goldacre on the Aporkalypse.
The media is generally pretty dodgy, but distrusting the doctors in the scenario because of media hype is the worst decision you can make.

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Mortality, Swine and the culture of Self-Preservation

I’ve come across a disturbing trend in my usual grokking of the inter-spheres. As with everything I tend to report on, I need to have either read a great deal about it or be horrendously drunk in order to add my own special brand of commentary. In this particular instance I’m more from column a [...]

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