The Swine Flu Is Pig Sh*t
They’re calling in sick. They’re heading for the hills. Heck, I even heard a rumor of a guy putting a plastic bubble around his mobile home.
The SWINE FLU has arrived.
But wait! Don’t offend the swine…or the pig farmer’s wallets…so start calling it H1N1. Catchy name, eh? I’ve got a better one. How about the All Hype Flu.
Until I’m stepping over corpses strewn across Times Square, I’m not drinking the Kool-Aid or chewing the pork.
This hardly has the makings of Leprosy, Tuberculosis or Malaria. Pandemic schmandemic.
Remember SARS? The bird flu? This too will pass.
I understand that Jack of All Blogs might sound heartless. We grieve for the eight confirmed deaths and 236 cases reported worldwide. However, where are the headlines for the 1,400 people who die from strep each year? Or the 36,000 who bit the dust to the plain ol’ seasonal flu.
I type this in a hotbed of Swine Flu activity. There have been 50 reported cases in New York; the majority of which have occurred mere miles from where I sit today. Yet I’m braving the streets sans a paper mask.
Some will sneeze. Few will die. And the media will continue to stir the pot.
The drug companies must be scrambling for the At-Home, Self-Testing, Swine Flu kit. But two, get one free.
And a shout out to our Mexican cousins. As if Montezuma’s Revenge and the 5,000 drug murders a year weren’t enough to keep us out of Mexico…
C’mon, admit it – part of you knows I’m right. And if I’m not, I’ll just blame the media for crying wolf too many times in the past.
[...] Whether you’re calling it Swine Flu, pigfluenza, or H1N1, it seems this story is gaining steam. The question is: is the threat of a pandemic real or is it all media hype? [...]
Swine Flu Tracker App on the iPhone | The Blog Herald said this on May 4, 2009 8:54 pm