I’m still obsessed with the flu! You might be focused on gun control these days because 17 people were shot in a horrific event, but I have not forgotten that over 251 people have died of the flu so far just in the city of San Diego this flu season.

If I were in charge of setting national priorities, I would start a war on flu. Current estimates are that roughly 4000 people per week are dying of the flu. During a bad flu season, flu kills more people a week than guns. Whatever we are currently doing about terrorism seems really quite sufficient because approximately nobody in the United States is dying of terrorism.

There is no part of the constitution that guarantees your right to the flu. Or your right to transmit the flu to other people. Yes, there are all sorts of terrible things that are killing a lot of people, but we have a decent chance of battling the flu. We already have mediocre vaccines. Our nation has a vibrant biotch industry. There is no flu lobby.

Stop flu now!