Wednesday, October 28, 2009

The Editor's Notepod, Wed., Oct. 28, 2009

Area (Meriden, Southington): while there seem to be sufficient HIN1 flu vaccine doses for those looking for them, the seasonal flu vaccine is in short supply. It’s tough to guess how people will react to warnings about the illnesses, and tough as well to predict how the manufacturers will proceed.

Southington: High rates of absence at middle schools suggests a wave of unhealthy kids, but it's not a cause for alarm. Parents are urged to follow routines to avoid spread of disease and to keep kids at home a day longer than symptoms.

Meriden (and other police departments): Taser warning to law enforcement departments isn’t the result of any new information, apparently, just relates to efficient use of these tools. There are some concerns about their use, but they do seem to stop "situations," as do firearms of course, but even if serious injury or death is a possibility with the Taser, isn’t that still preferable to shooting someone, who, if hit, is guaranteed serious injury or death, and who is not incapacitated quickly?

Wallingford:
A move which will make town meetings more easily accessed by residents will be appreciated by those interested and concerned. Everyone will then have a chance to discover just how mind-bogglingly tedious a substantial portion of every public meeting is by nature. All the same, it’s good to be able to watch.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

People are not taking the H1N1 flu threat seriously which is why they are not showing up for the vaccinations. Your title of the article suggests that there is "no cause for panic". We will have a panic if nobody gets vaccinated.