All is shit about the swine flu! Everywhere in the news, hand sanitizer sold out,vacation plans scraped, USA and Mexico on Foreign Ministry "danger" lists, pending impact on the bad economy, imminent doom, etc. Obama says no big deal, and ya know I believe him.Not for the same reasons, Obama doesn't want to spook the nation(Remember Tom Ridge's threat colors?), I believe it's mostly hype. The news media has been going thru withdrawal since the election is over and war is played out. They have been reduced to giving valuable time to the likes of Palin/Johnson,Cheney,Limbaugh and American Idol. You know its a slow news day. Now we have DISASTER looming and the media is right there. Interviews with talking heads spell pandemic. It sells news, period. I have begun to believe that modern man (Homo Sapiens Phukdupus) is mostly concerned with making money( at least in the "west", in the "east" religion holds a greater attraction) Lives have been taken, nations destroyed, a planet raped, the future endangered and little people squeezed in the name of the Almighty dollar. Mammon has become the new god.
Of course, my lady, who lost relatives in the 1918 flu and possesses the verbal lore from then, sees it pretty different. She works with the public, I live in the woods. Different take. Don't have no hand sanitizer, no blue masks, no stockpile of tamiflu and I,m not losing sleep. Nuff said.
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