[lbo-talk] flu panic!

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat May 2 16:30:01 PDT 2009


On May 2, 2009, at 7:25 PM, Eric Beck wrote:


> Disclaimer: I appreciate and even like Mike Davis, but he
> tremendously, often fatally, excitable.

I admire Mike Davis a lot, but you're right about his penchant for excitement. A few years ago, it was bird flu that was going to kill us all. A few days ago, it was swine flu. It's always something. Reality can be awful enough - why get all worked up over stuff that turns out not to be true?

Doug



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