[Peace-discuss] Swine Flu

[E. Wayne Johnson]

You're right, Laurie.   The pigs got their A:H1N1 flu  bug from people 
in 1918 during the great influenza epidemic, and pigs have had seasonal 
influenza ever since, and it has become pig-adapted by passage among 
pigs such that the A:Swine H1N1 only rarely infects people.  Pig have an 
H3N2, and rare assortments of H1N2, H3N1.  But the H1N1 is the most 
likely to affect people.  There are human H1N1 strains, and in the 
United States, there are on the average 35 deaths from H1N1 influenza 
every day, with wintertime peaks and summertime valleys in the rate.  
The bird flu scare, which caused an epidemic migration of massive sums 
of money from the balance sheets of the American people, has pretty much 
run aground, and despite all of the squawking about it, the great Bird 
Flu Epidemic never materialized, and the nest egg of research money for 
bird flu has flown the coop. 

Given our governments affinity for generating existential terror among 
the masses, a new flu outbreak is just what the doctor ordered, and a 
welcome shot in the arm for the research community that will be able to 
fill their coffers.  It's another of those disasters that has to be 
taken advantage of.

Its about time to stop slinging mud at the pigs.  And never do anything 
mean to a pig.  They'll squeal on you every time.


LAURIE SOLOMON wrote:
>
> I am not so sure why we, in the US, have become so concerned about 
> swine flu all of a sudden.  It has been with us since the 1950's -- if 
> not before.  Just look at who the Amerikan people have nominated for 
> and who they have elected to public office over that period and one 
> can planly see that the country has been suffering from swine flu for 
> quite a while now. My apologies to the swine species, who are often 
> more intelligent than their human counter parts and do not deserve to 
> share their good name with the human swine that populate Amerika. 
>
>  
>
> Wouldn't it be wonderful if the current bout of Swine Flu turned out 
> to be the swine's way of getting even with people for their atrocious 
> hog farms and for givng swine a bad name.
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