Swine Flu... should we be worried?

This weeks topic of discussion, the dreaded swine flu.


So the media are predictably shitting themselves, the government are scared, and most of the people I know are a little touchy... but should we be worried?

A friend of mine found this excellent little site letting you know if you have swine flu or not, it's well worth a look before reading on, its only a page long and really hits home the message im trying to put across in the first sentence.

Go to this link I insist.

www.haveigotswineflu.co.uk

Now I have set the comic under-tone for the rest of this blog we can continue...

So heres my opinion on the dreaded piggy flu.

Its a bit of a joke. It's been blown out of proportion horribly! Bird-flu? What happened to that? It dissappeared from the public eye around about the time the first Black president was elected, or when Cheryl Cole and her footy hubby had a little row.

The point i'm trying to make out is that these diseases only worry people when the media focus on them because there's not much else going on. They love a good outbreak of a virus so they've got something to fill their otherwise boring papers with, but the second Britney Spears has a haircut the world is once again (albeit briefly) healthy! It's a bit silly.

So was the bird flu though. They burnt all those poor chickens because they had the sniffles. Are they going to burn all of the pigs? Is this the end of bacon? Why don't we burn Lady GaGa next time she has a cold...

Joking aside - scientists have already nearly finshed a vaccination so we honestly have nothing to worry about ANYWAY. But whilst we wait for the cure there is already a soothing drink available to help with the effects of this scary disease.


What a wonderful Oinkment (I apologise for the poor pun)

Some people in mexico however are getting understandably worried and have been advised to wearing masks out to prevent the bacon bugs getting in. The japanese as always, in perfect character, are at the front of this new-wave fashion;


If people freeze and panic like a dear in headlights everytime a bug is going around what is the world going to be like when (God-forbid) an ACTUAL fatal virus breaks out. That thought is genuinely terrifying.

If only there were some sort of realistic virtual environmentin which we could prepare ourselves for such a deadly virus. I for one would be much happier.
























I hope that doesn't happen, but if it does, shotgun the grenades.

Anyway - lets get down the pub I could murder some pork scratchings and a pint.

(A joke I couldn't seem to "flawlessly edit" into this "masterpiece" of a blog)

I rung up the swine emergency helpline the other day... All i got was crackling.

And poor old Burger King are going to have to give the new burger range a re-think. The Texican whopper. Mexico and Texas. To major outbreak hotspots haha.



Smell ya later x