[Peace-discuss] Swine Flu

[LAURIE SOLOMON]

Hmmmm!  I intended my comments to be a form of political commentary and not
a serious discussion of the flu.  But I guess that the old expression holds,
"if the flu shits, then wear it."  What can I say? 

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[mailto:peace-discuss-bounces at lists.chambana.net] On Behalf Of C. G.
Estabrook
Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 3:56 PM
To: E. Wayne Johnson
Cc: peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net; LAURIE SOLOMON
Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Swine Flu

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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