[Peace-discuss] Swine Flu
C. G. Estabrook
galliher at illinois.edu
Tue Apr 28 15:55:58 CDT 2009
Eggs can escape from coops *by air*?!
E. Wayne Johnson wrote:
> 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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