ATTN Swine Flu Panickers:

[schmevil]

STOP. Panicking over a generalized, non-imminent is less than useless. It's ridiculous, counter productive, and only leads to a bad situation becoming much worse.

Also, the first person to cast aspersions on 'those people' will be first against the wall. FYI.

Now if you'll excuse me, I need to block out the thundering idiocy of the human race for a few, while I finish this damn book, and write a presentation.

Comments

[jeff-morris.livejournal.com]

Can we at least cast aspersions on "those people" where "those people"="idiots who don't wash their hands"?

[bobthetrout.livejournal.com]

Even if we DO manage to get a pandemic (which is unlikely given SARS and Bird Flu) it's highly unlikely to wipe out humanity the way everyone seems to be thinking. Sometimes I hate the information age, it seems to spread panic.

[foxhack.livejournal.com]

THOSE FILTHY MEXICANS DID IT

And I started it all. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAH

[stubbleupdate.livejournal.com]

It'll be just like when we all died from Bird Flu.

[elspethdixon.livejournal.com]

I have actually seen at least one person literally compare it to the Stand. Because nothing says "genetically engineered pandemic that wipes out civilization as we know it" like "two dozen kids from Queens caught the flu over spring break. They're all fine now." One thing people forget about the 1918 flu is that it didn't just have an abmorally high mortality rate -- it also had what's estimated to be a 50% infection rate. It spread incredibly fast, and one of the reasons that millions of people died is that almost 20% of the worlds population was infected (also, there were no antibiotics to treat secondary infections then -- the flu pandemics in the 50s and 60s had a fraction of the mortality rate the 1918 pandemic did).

If people really want a terrifying potential pandemic to panic over, they ought to goolge antibiotic-resistant tuberculosis (or, preferably, not google it). Blaming the communists for being a threat to civilization as we know it instead of Mexico might not be quite as much fun, but hey, at least there's still a country they can accusingly point fingers at and warn people not to visit.

[sandoz-iscariot.livejournal.com]

I can't wait for the inevitable Sci-Fi Channel Original Movie about diseased man-eating pigs.

[kyuuketsukirui.livejournal.com]

What I like best are the people who are all "zomg don't eat pork!"