Obamacare and the Supreme Court

The US Supreme Court has upheld nearly all of the US healthcare reforms. I'd expected the mandate to be struck down at least.

This is a welcome decision as it allows for people not to be denied care due to pre-existing conditions and places the decision on this matter where it should be - in the hands of the people.

World AIDS Day

It's World AIDS Day today; focussing on the worst disease to hit this planet in the last half century.

I hope one day soon there's a vaccine for this. No-one deserves a disease like that, regardless of what they do - and many children in Africa didn't do anything.

Swine Flu

It appears, so far, that this swine flu thing is just going to turn out to be a minor strain of the regular sort of flu. Some people are going to have time off work. Some are going to pull sickies. Pigs are going to die in Egypt.

This is not going to be Spanish, or even Hong Kong Flu.

The papers have been doing their usual panic thing (thankfully, no-one's attempted to tie this to immigrants, although house prices have probably been mentioned somewhere) over a virus that has a mortality rate of about 2% or less and has had virtually all of its deaths confined to Mexico.

Which leads me to think that there's something odd going on in Mexico, which needs investigating. Diet, perhaps? It would be interesting to see a case location map, because if they're all grouped in one area that happens to be near a chemical plant, it would be suspicious to say the least. Remember the Bhopal disaster in India in 1984.