Crooked in Canada II

PETA must be loving the swine flu story.

Is it an act of revenge against all of us pork-loving imbeciles, or did somebody in an act of bestiality, contract a virus while on a drunken holiday in South America? That is the question running through my mind this Monday morning after hearing for the past three days newsreaders going on and on and on about ’swine flu’ and how it might  become the ‘plague of the millennium’.

This story is BS man, because if it is as bad as they are claiming it to be, there would have been signs of this happening way before now. Plagues just don’t occur overnight you know, it takes time for a virus to infect people in plague-like proportions, and as was the case with ‘mad cow,’ there is once again fear-mongering among the medical community.

I love my pork man, but in our household I’m the only one, and no my wife and stepchildren aren’t Jewish. They just don’t like the smell of it frying or roasting, and the taste of it after. Their dislike for the other white meat has nothing to do with religious beliefs.

As of this moment, while I am writing this blog article, the Center for Disease Control has confirmed 20 cases of the potentially and sometimes fatal virus. That isn’t very many in a world populated by more than 6 billion people. I wonder how many people have to become infected or die before the swine flu outbreak officially becomes a plague.

I hear 80 people have died in South America so far. Obviously, we are well on our way to a worldwide epidemic. I’m being sarcastic of course.

Now I’m not an expert on diseases, but when it comes to getting this disease under control, the number of confirmed infected people tells me that it should be a ‘walk in the park’ for the medical community, so what’s all this BS about a plague? Why is this story being sensationalized around the world?  It isn’t as bad as people in the mainstream media are making it sound. They, and government officials, are blowing this story way out of proportion.  Swine flu, as it has been for years, is manageable and there is no way it is going to turn into a worldwide plague.

I don’t know what the numbers are, but I suspect that if somebody were to check out how confirmed cases of swine flu there has been for each year of the past decade, the numbers might not be much different then they are today. I could be wrong about that, but I get the feeling that during the past decade there have been more confirmed cases of swine flu for any one of the ten preceding years than there have been confirmed during the past few days.

Just so, you know contracting the disease isn’t limited to dining on it, and bestiality. Merely touching a surface with the virus on it, can be killer for some people, if they don’t wash their hands after touching a contaminated surface.

Butchers, slaughterhouse employees, pig farmers, and those who practice bestiality are the most at risk. I used to be around pigs, the farm animal kind, and yes I have dated a few pigs, but I always washed up after coming into contact with them. It came natural to me. You muck around with animals, touch them, stroke them, let them drool all over you, and its common sense to wash up after, right?

You want to know the truth, I really don’t care about this outbreak of swine flu, and I think there are more important things for the mainstream media to be doing instead of sensationalizing a story, and instilling fear among the masses. This isn’t big deal, at least not as big as people are making it out to be, and at the end of day like the avarian flu, and mad cow, swine flu will be managed.

As for PETA, I’m waiting for them to say that pigs are getting even with those of us who aren’t Jewish, farm pigs, were in slaughterhouse, and enjoy eating it. I wouldn’t be surprised if that thought hasn’t already crossed their minds. By the way, I threw the ‘bestiality thing’ into this blog entry for PETA sakes, which at one time actually condoned bestiality. Does anybody remember that? Google it if you don’t know what I’m talking about.

The reportage on this latest disease outbreak, as fatal as the disease can be when undiagnosed in a person, is overkill.