My brother-in-law’s test results found he had swine flu. Suddenly, the airline, the hotel in Hawaii, the hospitals, and the local health department were very interested in them. By the time they knew, it was already mostly done. Can we afford to make a joke out of it and write it off as another fear tactic? No. It is not nearly that harmless.

Wal-Mart has agreed to a settlement amount of nearly $2 million dollars in the “Black Friday” incident that resulted in one death and injury to eleven others in their Nassau, New York store. By doing so they will not face criminal charges that were being sought, and could have only resulted in a $10,000 fine. What does this mean to the survivor’s family and others’ who were injured?