Sickly Pig
It seems that in the wake of epidemics like SARS, Mad-Cow disease, bird-flu and now Mexico-Flu one thing (besides death) that emerges is world-wide concern, over-thinking and in some cases panic. I was at Hobby Airport picking up a friend and saw two people with medical masks on. In my opinion, that's absolute insanity.
When you stop to think how excitable the global community is when an "epidemic" is announced, how easy would it be to engineer one? Let's just say the government has a flu strain that kills one in ten people that contract it and leave the other people sickly for a couple weeks. What stops them from using an epidemic like that from striking panic and fear into the feeble minds of the American and Global community only then to declare marshal law upon it's citizens to "protect" and isolate them. It's literally that easy.
One way to spread it to assure that people catch it is through those damn mosquito sprayers. For those of you who don't live in an area where this happens I'll explain what this is. Overnight, usually around midnight, trucks that are marked and sometimes unmarked drive around the neighborhoods with tanks affixed to their beds. From those tanks a small pole is extended upwards and sprays whatever the hell they're spraying up into the air behind the vehicle. I have a HUGE problem with this happening for the simple reason that literally anything could be in there. Anything. As a private citizen I think it is ridiculous for the local, state or federal government to be able to spray some mysterious chemical, even if it is indeed for mosquitoes, around me when I haven't agreed to it. That may sound ridiculous, but then again you probably trust everything the government tells you.(Vid of a mosquito truck. The one in this vid looks just like the ones we have in Houston)
Anyways, it's not too hard to believe something like this could happen when you start to read the news detailing the actions some people and governments are taking. Here are som interesting articles and snippets:
Obama speaks! Utmost precations? What's that mean??
Egypt orders the slaughter of all pigs in the country...an estimated 300,000 animals?? That's just plain old crazy. I like that some pig farmers are telling the government to fuck off.
Who discredits the 150 death claim. I like this story because WHO is actually being honest with reporting the numbers.
I feel like Jerry Fletcher.
Labels: epidemic, flu, Mexico, pandemic, pig, sick, swine, U.S.

3 Comments:
Swine flu, more like BITCH flu!
Amiright?
The Queen Bavmorda reference will fall short on most ears. But fuck them, they are shitbags.
What we need here is Chialindria's Wand and a midget. "Everything will be all right once we get to Tir Asleen".
Rock on.
Bring it on, Guy who will NOT pwn me!!
It is funny though, this "Mexico" Flu is actually LESS severe than the normal seasonal flu outbreaks that occur each year. It's just that the media is full of empty headed rating whores.
Jas,
You're probably right about Bavmorda. And those that don't get the reference ARE indeed shitbags.
I think if I have a daughter I'm going to name her Alora Dannon.
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