Remember all those stories from the 1970s where the world was totally hosed due to Swine Flu wiping out most of humanity?
Funny you should mention. I'm finding that I have some trouble taking this panic seriously because I associate the phrase "Swine Flu" almost entirely with the Ford administration.
(Also because not worthy of panic. Concern, yes.)
Re: The Swine Flu
I'm waiting with bated breath to find out precisely how this is Obama's fault.
Obama's high taxes are cutting into the amount of bacon people can bring home. Less bacon equals more pigs equals more swine flu.
CLEARLY the swine flu pandemic is a Zionist Socialist plot to trick us into accepting universal healthcare.
Funny you should mention. I'm finding that I have some trouble taking this panic seriously because I associate the phrase "Swine Flu" almost entirely with the Ford administration.
It reminds me of my mom, and Pigs in Space.
CLEARLY the swine flu pandemic is a Socialist plot to trick us into accepting universal healthcare.
I don't know how I didn't see it before. Four years of Obama and we'll be Sweden. Could be worse for us men folk, but women folk are going to have to learn to be blonder and taller.
I'm waiting with bated breath to find out precisely how this is Obama's fault.
Actually, there is an interesting political connection. During the debate over the stimulus package, Susan Collins and Arlen Specter got $900 million for pandemic flue preparations dropped from the final bill. It was part of the whole "laughing over silly-sounding programs" that ended up biting Jindal in the butt when Mt. Redoubt blew.
Oh...maybe the swine flu jokes were on Veternarian's Hospital?
xkcd takes on the swine flu panic on twitter: [link]
I love the Questionable Content reference....
Gudanov,
The Daily Show
had a two-part series with Wyatt Cenac in Sweden investigating just that!