I will be given an influenza (bird flu) vaccine at about half the dosage known to work in humans to prevent it. They will examine my anti-body levels every day for the 12 days to see if this half dose ammount would provide sufficent protection from the flu in case a pandemic breaks out. As any vaccine carrys a “live” form of the virus, they need to keep us all isolated for fear we begin shedding the virus.
So the isolation isn’t part of the study? Then definitely get a laptop. Stay connected. That will help.
My wife gave me an ereader for graduation and surprisingly I love it. If you like to read get one and load it with books. Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged are both really long and really really good. Eckhert Toll’s The Power of Now would be a good one to read when you’re stuck in isolation for a long time. Richard Preston’s Hot Zone would be neat to read while being part of a disease study. If you’re into American History then His Excellency is a really interesting biography of George Washington. Umm, otherwise check out a thread titled “Read any good books lately?” for more reading ideas.
EDIT: For ereaders get the Barnes & Noble Nook and a buffalo library card. The library has a big ebook collection that you can access through their website. The Nook is better than the Kindle because it reads all formats so you can download stuff for free. Amazon’s only works at Amazon.
Haha there is def some $ being thrown around. You get paid well as you need to take off work for it obviously, but it works out great if you’re fresh outta college. the biggest problem is fighting the bordem
I’m trying to put a number on how much you would have to pay me to do this for 12 days. It would be a pretty big number.
Bring books, laptop and video games. The books will help pass the time but 12 straight days of reading you’d probably go nuts. You need some other things to pass the time. Other than that I’d probably just sleep a lot.
Enough books, what about movies? I know we have the movie thread but I’m looking for your ALL time favorite movies. Suggestions? I plan on renting the library out lol