[Peace-discuss] Swine Flu

[E. Wayne Johnson]

A new plot is hatching.

C. G. Estabrook wrote:
> Eggs can escape from coops *by air*?!
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> 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.
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>> LAURIE SOLOMON wrote:
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>>> 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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