ZOMG! Swine Flu! Quick, someone kill all the pigs before they kill us!
Vice President Biden said yesterday not to fly on commercial flights and that he wouldn’t ride the subway or go to school (he specifically mentions “classroom”). Avoid confined spaces, blah blah blah.
Oh, and speaking of class rooms… A school about 30 miles from here closed early and sent the entire district home at around noon because a child had flu like symptoms.
The whole issue has gotten a little bit silly. It’s gotten so crazy that people went back in time and made couple of terrible commercials warning of the importance of protecting yourself with a swine flu shot. Oh yeah, and those shots in the 70s killed more people than the swine flu killed…
And if you didn’t see Biden telling America to not fly or ride subways, you can here:
The truth is (according to the CDC) “Every year in the United States, on average 5% to 20% of the population gets the flu; more than 200,000 people are hospitalized from flu complications, and; about 36,000 people die from flu-related causes.” Here is a video from Dr. Ron Paul about the evil swine flu. I’m guessing he got a kick out of VP Biden’s advice to the nation.
I just think everyone wants a panic. Maybe they are hoping for a Mad Max or Diary of the Dead situation? It’s almost as bad as wanting for the End Times. Oh wait, I forgot… The swine flu is part of End Times. He told us not to eat the pork. Damn us all to hell!
Update: Joe Biden induced panic has officially hit the airlines. Yep. A jet with more than 260 people onboard including the crew was diverted from DC to Boston because one passenger told flight attendents about her flu-like symptoms. The one passenger was tended to by paramedics and then the plane delivered the rest of the passengers to their destination.
Since the other passengers would not yet being showing symptoms, I guess the flight eventually making it to DC means that someone grounded that plane over irrational hysteria. Otherwise all the people on the flight should have been checked out or treated.
July 19th, 2009 at 10:15 am
They are just jumping on the bandwagon so that people forget about the collapse of the economy. All of those made redundant must be so pleased to be able to stay at home so they don’t get infected.
If you start checking out the figures for ‘ordinary’ flu they make pretty frightening reading. Or you could be run over by a bus.