Siamese twins at the wrist

[lesser_celery]

Some of you probably already know from sovay that the latest issue of Not One of Us is back from the printer. She received her contributor's copy ahead of time because she happened to be around and we met at her parents' house last evening. I was rewarded with 1.3 hours of intelligent and relaxing conversation with sovay and her mom. Where else could I converse about the Gaborian Wave Paradox? Happy me.

I probably won't start mailing copies of this latest issue to contributors, subscribers, and distributors until the weekend. One of us (if that be the term) will post the table of contents within the next few days.

In the meantime, subsist on these latest work-related items. The first is a journal article where we presented the findings of a four-country survey on attitudes about quarantine. Here's a link to the abstract. The full article is on the subscription-only Health Affairs website.

The second is a press release about our survey of attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors related to avian flu. The complete findings are linked from within the release.

The purpose of both of these surveys was to provide advice to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) about health communication in case of a biological emergency. "Don't eat uncooked tainted chicken blood" will probably be an easy message to get across.

Comments

[sovay]

"Don't eat uncooked tainted chicken blood" will probably be an easy message to get across.

Yeah. I can see how people might go for that one. If only all epidemics were so easy . . .

[lesser-celery.livejournal.com]

The Monty Python approach ("Run away!") isn't appropriate for most epidemics. During West Nile Fever, we considered recommending the slogan, "Don't lick the dead birds," but for some reason we held back.

[clarionj.livejournal.com]

Gaborian Wave Paradox--I have to look this up right now. And regarding, "Don't lick the dead birds," maybe in your mounds of spare time you can do a health pamphlet parody--this made me laugh.

[lesser-celery.livejournal.com]

Uh, if you find anything about the Gaborian Wave Paradox, be very afraid. It originated in a dream I had in which sovay's father and I were tossing crumpled papers into a waste basket and watching as the second one to arrive was always annihilated because it couldn't occupy the same place as the first in a localized space/time distortion. Why Gaborian? I think it might have been because of that old sf movie starring Zsa Zsa Gabor.

A health pamphlet parody is a great idea. Tina Reigel and I once published an authentic-looking Request for Proposals to interview dead people (Not One of Us #17).

[sovay]

A health pamphlet parody is a great idea.

Motion seconded! It could be like the Cthulhu Tract of public health.

[clarionj.livejournal.com]

Ha, I love it. My first attempt to search the Web resulted in something about (sound?) waves and a paradox, but the link wasn't working. Other than that you stumped the Web. Next time I'm helping my daughter with her physics homework, I'll see what formula she's using to describe your Gaborian Wave Paradox. Those are good days--tossing paper into a waste basket. (I keep telling people we need to slow down and look at things.)