There's a tall, half-blind writer, lives in Maine, who we'd all rather he not one day be seen as a prophet.

One of his greatest novels, if not the greatest, tells of an awesome apocalypse wrought by a government-designed flu bug. Much of the novel takes place in Colorado, from whence this story cometh.

...An 8-year-old Wellington boy died Monday, Larimer County health officials said. A 2-year-old and a 21-month-old died at The Children's Hospital in Denver in the past week, hospital officials said.

Get your shots, kiddies. Captain Trips is lurking.