The Swine Flu Owes Me A Breakfast Sausage
Posted on Apr 28th, 2009 at 11:58 am by Megan Bodman in Entertainment, Food, Misc Geek Stuff
I have a friend who is trying to convince me to wear a surgical mask before I leave the house, just in case.
Another friend caught a cold and ran up a several thousand dollar tab at the local emergency room, just to be safe.
Lastly, a good buddy, the day after grocery shopping, watched the news and threw out every piece of bacon, sausage and pork he could find, just to be sure. Ruined my breakfast, too.
Swine flu paranoia is doing way more damage than the actual swine flu. When will this country learn from our idiocy? In 2005, we were locking our doors and preparing for the bird flu. In 2004 we all became vegetarians, thinking we were going crazy with mad cow disease/ And in 2003, SARS was going to kill us all. Period. No questions asked. When we take everything we hear on CNN and (God bless you) FOX news without question or research and allow the hype to seep into our brains, we are going to become a paranoid culture.
Babe is not the enemy, people
“But Meg, Obama talked about it. And if Obama talked about it, it must be a major crisis!” Yeah. Okay. Obama’a gotten quite a bit of flack for not living up to the hype that came with his campaign. So wouldn’t making a little issue into a big one so everyone could see how well he handled it be pretty beneficial? Maybe even take the spotlight off some of the stuff he doesn’t want us to see, like more and more banks closing weekly? Love ya, Obama, but America, he threw you a curve-ball.
“No, Meg. The swine flu is wiping out the Mexican population!” No. 149 people died in Mexico as a direct result of this hybrid flu. Mexico has a population of 109,955,400. That’s 0001355% of the population. And the Mexican government has been lazy and irresponsible in their response.Shutting down the football stadium makes a statement, but the secretary of health is yet to send doctors or medicine to the families of those who died, those who were most closely exposed to the virus. Our medical programs are a little more advanced than Mexico’s. Let’s just not put FEMA in charge.
“The swine flu is a conspiracy by the government to kill us all.” Exactly. And that’s why it began in Mexico.
“Madonna caught the swine flu!!” Stay off Twitter if you really are that gullible. Just don’t speak anymore. You’re not helping anything.
“The swine flu will kill all the young people and the entire population will die!” No. Watch the journalists for long enough and you will hear big, scary words like pandemic, “wild-type” virus, and all sorts of others. Pandemic means “an illness affecting people across a large area.” and “wild-type” means there isn’t a vaccine for it yet. Hmm, not curable and widespread? Sounds like the common cold to me. In Canada, people that were diagnosed with the illness generally recovered in three to four days, sometimes without medical treatment.
That’ it guys. The swine flu isn’t going to steal your mother’s purse or kidnap your children. It’s like the flu. If you feel sneezy, drowsy, having problems breathing, feverish, sluggish, go see your doctor. Take a Claritin. Just quit throwing out my breakfast sausage, damnit!
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A lady at my work is convinced you get Swine Flu from French Fries. Said the Russians figured it out, lol something about genetically made potatos.. It is a mania. Did you hear Marilyn Manson has Swine Flu?
My brother got infected with H1N1 or Swine Flu in Mexico. He got a mild fever and luckily he did not die.