“He was injured. Injured bad.”
You just have to watch this health insurance commercial first. Innocent, but sort of NSFW:
Louisiana Firefighter Saves Dog with CPR
I didn’t even know this was possible. Apparently, it’s a mouth-to-snout thing, and the firefighter did infant-type chest compressions on the tiny dog he pulled out of a mobile home fire. And it worked.
After I read this story, I got curious and I found this.
Is Malaria Worth $4,000 To You?
If it is and you live around Seattle, it’s payday. Volunteer for a vaccine study at the Seattle Biomedical Research Institute’s new malaria facility when it opens, and you’ll earn somewhere around 2K to 4K in compensation.
The catch?
You have to let mosquitoes bite you, and they’ll be carrying the deadliest strain of the disease. However, it’s also a highly curable strain and one that will not recur throughout your life, the way other malaria strains can.
Volunteers will of course be under medical supervision and given treatment at the first sign of illness. Apparently, researchers have used human malaria trials for some time.
If I had to place a value on Malaria, I would say at $4K they have not yet hit my price range.
I’d like to compliment you on your post yesterday. Very timely and hopefully, thought provoking in terms of our own air quality. It’s pretty bad when you can “see” your air. As an asthmatic, I can feel it, but for a non asthmatic to see it, gives it a certain legitamacy… “wow, that is a problem”.
So thanks for giving it airtime.
Aw, thanks.
It’s too bad people have to “see” the air pollution, as you mention, before they’re concerned. Then again, who am I to judge? I cared about air quality, but only in a very abstract way until AG started having breathing problems. It’s human nature, I guess, not to care until it affects you.
Unfortunately, waiting around until it affects the “regular” people causes air pollution like Beijing’s. I can’t imagine raising my daughter there. I do hope people in other countries—like, for example, political leaders like ours who won’t sign international environmental treaties—watch and read all this news about the Olympics with one eye on their own countries’ pollution problems.
http://www6.comcast.net/news/articles/national/2008/03/10/Fragrance.Free.Schools/
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