None Dare Call It Swine Flu
Remember when the h1n1 swine flu first broke out? The pork industry lobbied the government to stop calling the virus swine flu. People wore face masks everywhere they went. Predictions of dire consequences for us all, perhaps even an end to American civilization as we know it, were shouted from the rooftops... or, well, from the television sets.
And then, nothing much happened. A few people died, just as happens with the ordinary flu.
Now, in the autumn of 2009, President Obama has managed to reignite the paranoia, declaring a proactive state of emergency - kind of like a microbial version of George W. Bush's policy of preemptive strikes.
And then, nothing much happened. A few people died, just as happens with the ordinary flu.
Now, in the autumn of 2009, President Obama has managed to reignite the paranoia, declaring a proactive state of emergency - kind of like a microbial version of George W. Bush's policy of preemptive strikes.
News About the Flu from Irregular Times
Keeping the epidemic of H1N1 paranoia in check
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U.S. Representative Steve Israel appears to be overreacting just a wee bit
Congressman Steve Israel has written H.R. 3798, a bill that would provide government funding for school nurses to get extra training for how to deal with H1N1 swine flu. Wait a minute, though. Don't you just deal with swine flu in the same way you deal with regular flu - and aren't school nurses already trained to do that?H.R. 3798 ought to be renamed the Look Busy Doing Something About Americans' Fears Act of 2009. I though that the Politics of Fear was supposed to be all over with the end of the Bush Administration.
H1N1 Swine Flu Public Service Announcement
H1N1 Swine Flu Virus Public Service Announcement
In this video, an H1N1 virus gives a public service announcement of the sort solicited by Secretary Kathleen Sebelius of the Department of Health and Human Services. However, it's probably not the sort of message about the swine flu that Sebelius expects or wants.
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The Lesson of H5N1
Bird Flu wasn't the great plague either
As America panics about the H1N1 swine flu, we ought to remember the lesson of the H1N5 virus. Have you forgotten that one? The cover of Time Magazine featured a chicken, as an ominous sign of the great infection that was going to get us all - and we had better get ready. An ominous chicken? We should have known better.
We ought to have learned to have second thoughts with H1N1, which we were told would soon mutate to become super-virulent, but never did. Still, we have a supposed nationwide emergency, all because of something that has not happened, but might happen.
H1N1? Don't believe the hype.
We ought to have learned to have second thoughts with H1N1, which we were told would soon mutate to become super-virulent, but never did. Still, we have a supposed nationwide emergency, all because of something that has not happened, but might happen.
H1N1? Don't believe the hype.
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