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Swine Fluke

Submitted by J Boogie [TLL] on Tuesday, 28 April 2009Comments

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Swine flu panic has hit the nation. It’s all over the airwaves. You can’t surf the internet without seeing something mentioning it. Such worry has to be justified, right? Well, it is if you are Catholic. You see, the outbreak has a definite pattern and the course of infection leads me to the one logical conclusion that only a reasonably prudent person could come to: Swine Flu is SENTIENT. First, it targeted Mexico, which has a giant Catholic population and now it has its icy grips on the poor group of Catholic high school students who vacationed in Mexico on spring break. There are reports that the flu has reached California as well, among other states. Ladies and Gentlemen, do you know what that means? This incredibly smart pig flu has already infected the two liberal strongholds of America! Where could its next target be? Oh no, Swine Flu’s next target logically has to be…The President! Noooooo! Oh wait, I think I’m getting swine flu mixed up with Sylar from Heroes.

People, Swine Flu sucks. But don’t let the media get you panicked about something that, while it may claim some lives eventually in the states, isn’t really that big of an issue. It isn’t a pandemic, and so far it has been mild in the states. Look it up on the internet, get your facts right, and don’t really sweat it. There are far worse problems in the world than a small outbreak of pig sickness.

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  • Maduck
    THE PANDEMIC IS GONE! http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2009-05-04-... what in the hell were these guys hiding from us while this was in the news...
  • Your link is dead. Not sure what it was. I bet they snuck in a bailout or two in while everyone else was pre-occupied with the "pandemic"
  • Maduck
    wow...i tried to re find it on usatoday no luck...i will leave u all with this...a "swine flu" interactive map! The best part about the msm is that IT SHOULD NOT BE CALLED THE SWINE FLU, yet sure enough the name is still plastered over usatoday et. al...it kind of reminds me right after "9/11" when sports illustrated had an article that stated the terms "war" and "bombing" should not be used to describe sporting events...of course that didn't last...

    http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2009-04-27-...
  • Haha why is your 9/11 in quotations?
  • Maduck
    i like to put stuff in quotes for no reason (no joke, i re-read some stuff and besides the grammatical and spelling errors i always notice quotes around something that should not have quotes on it)...don't worry not one of those conspiracy theorists who think 9/11 is bunk...
  • I eat bacon, ham, and baconaise sandwiches everyday and I haven't come down with swine flu. Anyone scared of it can follow in my ways.
  • I wonder if the Egyptians have stopped the mass killing of pigs yet? H1N1 baby!
  • Maduck
    this little kid trumps us all: http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=38a1322458... (even though u can't get it from pigs)...this kid says to swine flu: "fuck off kind sir"
  • Arkadia12
    Is this the daring child you were referring to, Maduck?

    http://farm1.static.flickr.com/95/258394782_e8c...
  • Maduck
    sorry should have backed up my last post with a cite to an article re: the proper term is no longer "swine" flu (haha): http://english.aljazeera.net//news/europe/2009/...
  • Joe Balingsky
    I disagree with parts of you selfish analysis Maduck. Though off the topic, why would you say that you would only get worried if 20 somethings started to die? Why couldn't it be when 40 or 50 year olds start dying? What is your rationale? I also think that in cases like these it is better to be safe than sorry. You could also say that the "hysterics" you mock help the world to learn and that we are now better prepared if the worst does ever occur.
  • Maduck
    joe, thanks for the close reading of every word i typed...while i can't argue with "20 somethings dying" being perhaps a subjective "turning point," my point was that the media et al. shouldn't be creating this "mass hysteria" (building off J Boogie's post) over something that has, of today (5/2) had 600 something cases WORLD WIDE (http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/05/02/swine.flu/... the grand scheme of "things" 615 out of billions in my opinion doesn't warrant the front page coverage that it is getting...and i'm not just talking msm like cnn.com but you go to a reliable news source like al jazzera (right wingers i don't want to hear it, there is nothing wrong with al jazzera, we didn't have a problem with them before 9/11 and as far as i know they didn't do anything post 9/11 to warrant this hatred) and they are also reporting the "flu" (though no longer referring to it as "swine flu"). moreover, this "hysteria" creates problems like this: http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/05/02/worried.we... mean with everything there is certainly "cause and effect," but why doesn't a media source take the time (i'm too lazy) to study how this "hysteria" has prevented people who truly need emergency care and aren't getting it because someone has the sniffles and freaks out because of the media's "swine flu"
  • Better safe than sorry is one thing. But the media is creating such a huge hysteria over it. The "news" as we call it is guilty of misleading the populace. We need facts presented without the dramatic flair that is best suited for a WWE wrestling ring. The main issue I have is that these hysterics aren't helping the world learn and end up just scaring alot of people who don't investigate things on their own.
  • Bunky Johnston
    This flu is picking up momentum but is probably just as deadly as a regular flu. BUT because this is coming from another country, Mexico in particular, that is adding a special circumstance for people to hate it even more.

    This is different from the regular flu. Anything different is feared.

    Pyah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Solution: eat a corn dog
  • Maduck
    i think you need to change the name of your post...it is now no longer proper to call it "swine" flu... because apparently you can't get it from eating pork (this didn't stop Spain from starting to slaughter 300,000 pigs)...i also think the media, etc. should focus on this from a pure "numbers" stand point. If we take a step back and look at how many people have died or been infected it is like one hundred people per country...in the GRAND SCHEME of things (numerically speaking) this isn't a "pandemic" or even cause for alarm...now if 20 somethings in perfect health start dying in a day...i'll start freakin out...until then i'm going to sit back and enjoy the hysteria...

    another solution: get a blt, ask for extra bacon...
  • Maduck
    I agree with Binky's comments. Check out cnn.com (i.e. msm): http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/04/28/regular.fl.... Yet people don't freak out about the regular flu....moreover even the doctors have said that since the swine flu is a "flu," death should be expected and not considered out of the ordinary, since the flu causes x amount of deaths a year anyway.
  • Binky Johnson
    Did you know that tthere are 36,000 seasonal flu deaths in the U.S. each year?
  • Yes, I am aware. The great majority of those deaths are for the elderly who already have weakened immune systems, though of course the flu also is a great risk to the young as well. But the point of my article was simply to drop a little reality into the news cycle, which has been set to "Scare" settings over the swine flu issue. Of course the flu is serious, but I've heard some pretty outlandish questions on the air about this flu, such as whether this was a biological attack. There isn't any reason to run around thinking you are going to be offed by birdflu, swine flu or the regular influenza strain.
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