I heard a journalist talking about Egypt's mass pig slaughter. Apparently the Egyptian government is in a bit of a tizzy about swine flu and is trying to slaughter all the pigs in the country. No journalists have been harmed at this time. Thank you, I'm here all night. Anyway this is contravention to WHO advice. The journalist went on to say that Egypt had been hit hard by bird flu. 36 people had died of bird flu in the last 5 years. I often wonder to myself if a requirement of journalism is an ability to say the most monumentally stupid things without a hint of self consciousness.
I think that the 7 or so people killed in Egypt by bird flu per year would pale in comparison to thousands of people who die from things like typhoid and good old regular flu which STILL kills more people each year than bird flu or swine flu and which we STILL have no real cure for. I'm really sick of the media beat up over swine flu. The endless lies about 'everyone wearing masks' when we can see a street full of people NOT wearing masks right behind the lying bastard filing the report. The constant misquotings and panicked speculation and the flagrant, offensive abuse of statistcs to try and create an aura of fear and dread about something that no one really know much about, except that you will be FAR more likely to die from drinking the water at your exotic foreign destination than from swine flu.
Just this evening there was another idiotic story accusing Kevin Rudd of scaring people over swine flu, from the very same people who have been running a round the clock scare campaign over swine flu. This sort of garbage reporting, which anyone with an ounce of decency should be ashamed of, is why governments feel compelled to do things like arrest and quarantine Mexicans for no reason and is why Mexicans are starting to feel even more discrimination in places like the US. Because of irresponsible reporting aimed solely at creating fear and panic instead of informing people about what's going on. Seriously, fuck off and die.
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There is a report of cases of Swine Flu being identified in the US before the official "First Case" in Mexico, prompting speculation that this epidemic actually originated in the US not Mexico.
This being the case, I suggest that Australia detain all US citizens.
it would then be appropriate to Water Board them all in an attempt to get further information. (We have legal opinion from the White House that this is appropriate behavior for a country to treat foreign citizens)
Reporting in from Amurrka:
There was no swine flu in the 70's, just a bunch of yanks who died from the 'medicine' they were innoculated with, and gosh! Nobody died THIS time either! Tamiflu stocks went through the roof and the CEO of the company making that stuff happens to be on the boards of Google and Apple. Instead of innoculations all we need to do is invest directly in Google and Apple, water board anybody picked out as suspect by the media, and do everything the US government says or else they'll send Swine Flu, through the media, to an unsuspecting country.
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