A Little Private Pandemic
May 3rd 2009 14:04
A little over a month ago, my niece and I made a shopping trip to a city a couple of hours from home. I swear her car holds almost as much as my husband's truck! She and I both ate burgers from a fast food place and started feeling sick that night. For the next few days, we were miserable. Her one year old got sick. Then her 11 year old daughter. Then her husband. He wound up in the hospital! The same "bug" has continued to make the rounds between us all this time. My grandson felt poorly for a few days, but was the least affected by it. My husband was home for his monthly time off and didn't get sick at all.
So, think about it, folks... Out of seven people, four got very sick, two had a few symptoms but not severely, and one wasn't affected at all. Now, that's a pandemic! A couple of hundred people out of 304 million? Please! Enough with the panic already! 16 people in England? A few in several other countries? And the whole world goes into freak out mode? Get real!
This is just another engineered "disaster" designed to distract us from much more important things. While we're busily panicking over a potential "pandemic" what else is going on? Has anyone objected to the 1.5 billion that B.O. (B.S.) has appropriated to fight this make-believe illness? Has anyone spent five minutes worrying about the upcoming release of terrorists onto American streets? Have we heard much about al Qieda or any other real threats? What sort of "emergency legislation" is being shoved through Congress in the name of the "pandemic" while we're all too scared to complain?
Pork sales are down. Farmers are losing money. Some places are quarantining their swine (except for the politicians, of course) and some are killing entire herds of pigs. That's something we should be complaining about, folks. Farmers losing everything for a lie. The price of meat getting so high we'll all have to become vegetarians or starve. People with absolutely no medical background whatsoever being allowed to determine how serious an outbreak of flu can get should be disturbing to us all. Joe Obiden spitting his foot out long enough to increase the panic mode was a classic stroke of genius and another distraction.
Are we ever going to stop believing trash talk and insist on having facts? Or will we just meekly panic on cue and allow Washington DC to stick it to us whenever they feel like it?
Excuse me, I have to run for the bathroom again. Note that I said bathroom and not Washington!
So, think about it, folks... Out of seven people, four got very sick, two had a few symptoms but not severely, and one wasn't affected at all. Now, that's a pandemic! A couple of hundred people out of 304 million? Please! Enough with the panic already! 16 people in England? A few in several other countries? And the whole world goes into freak out mode? Get real!
This is just another engineered "disaster" designed to distract us from much more important things. While we're busily panicking over a potential "pandemic" what else is going on? Has anyone objected to the 1.5 billion that B.O. (B.S.) has appropriated to fight this make-believe illness? Has anyone spent five minutes worrying about the upcoming release of terrorists onto American streets? Have we heard much about al Qieda or any other real threats? What sort of "emergency legislation" is being shoved through Congress in the name of the "pandemic" while we're all too scared to complain?
Pork sales are down. Farmers are losing money. Some places are quarantining their swine (except for the politicians, of course) and some are killing entire herds of pigs. That's something we should be complaining about, folks. Farmers losing everything for a lie. The price of meat getting so high we'll all have to become vegetarians or starve. People with absolutely no medical background whatsoever being allowed to determine how serious an outbreak of flu can get should be disturbing to us all. Joe Obiden spitting his foot out long enough to increase the panic mode was a classic stroke of genius and another distraction.
Are we ever going to stop believing trash talk and insist on having facts? Or will we just meekly panic on cue and allow Washington DC to stick it to us whenever they feel like it?
Excuse me, I have to run for the bathroom again. Note that I said bathroom and not Washington!
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