Because you are all avid readers of the Something New Every Day blog, you are all aware of what symptoms indicate the flu. If not, familiarize yourself with the chart here.

Well, today, Joe Biden was on The Today Show and told people that he’s recommended to his friends and family that they stay off the Subway and well… read for yourself:

I would tell members of my family, and I have, that I wouldn’t go anywhere in confined places now. It’s not that it’s going to Mexico, in a confined aircraft when one person sneezes, it goes all the way through the aircraft. That’s me. I would not be, if I had another way, another way of transportation, suggesting they ride the subway.

In what has become a regular occurrence, WH Press Secretary Robert Gibbs sought to “clarify” what the VP really meant to say. But he went on to clarify by misstating flu symptoms. “Coughing, Sneezing and Runny Nose” are not typical flu symptoms. Those would indicate the common cold.

Maybe we can get Gibbs to clarify his clarification.

The final word (Tom Maguire via Hot Air): They told me that if I voted for McCain we’d have a Vice President who was a moron… and they were right!