The Flu is a wonderful part of history, so let’s give it a little credit. It is probably best to respect a pandemic.
The Spanish Flu of 1918-1919 killed off up to 25 million people (estimated of course), and more people than every casualty of World War I, from any country, combined.
WHY THIS IS SCARY: Our new friend, the “swine flu,” mainly effects the young adult to middle-aged crowd, which is exactly what happened with the Spanish Flu.
AND ALL THE MORE SCARY:
Alex Jones is hilariously insane and believes the swine flu is a biological weapon:
According to a source known to former NSA official Wayne Madsen, “A top scientist for the United Nations, who has examined the outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in Africa, as well as HIV/AIDS victims, concluded that H1N1 possesses certain transmission “vectors” that suggest that the new flu strain has been genetically-manufactured as a military biological warfare weapon.
Madsen claims that his source, and another in Indonesia, “Are convinced that the current outbreak of a new strain of swine flu in Mexico and some parts of the United States is the result of the introduction of a human-engineered pathogen that could result in a widespread global pandemic, with potentially catastrophic consequences for domestic and international travel and commerce.”
Oh right… JUST ANOTHER GOVERNMENT CONSPIRACY!!!111one!
Thank you, Susan Collins, for having the foresight to cut all of that pandemic funding from the stimulus bill! You and Jindal should probably just save your fucking money and never play the lottery.
Isn’t this the plot of a Tom Clancy novel?
I seem to remember from my youth that one of the Sam Ryan novels starts with most of the Government killed during the State of the Union, due to a 9/11-style airplane attack. Sam Ryan become President as he’s the only one left. Then there goes on to be some kind of ebola-based attacks on America. He restricts travel in the US. Somehow, it’s all linked back to Iraq and Ryan orders a precision strike on Saddam Hussein’s house on live TV. He then heals America by instigating a flat tax.
Seriously! It’s all true. It’s the plot of Executive Orders: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Orders
I don’t have any painter’s or surgical masks. Will a coffee filter and tape protect me just as well?
Madsen claims that his source, and another in Indonesia, “Are convinced that the current outbreak of a new strain of swine flu in Mexico and some parts of the United States is the result of the introduction of a human-engineered pathogen…
Wait a minute. Barack Hussein is Indonesian, and he just got back from Mexico, where he anally poisoned an archaeologist. We all know that he is building FEMA concentration camps, and a swine flu pandemic might be the perfect excuse to start locking up Obama’s critics. In fact, it has already started!!!1
Actually, these people can’t be parodied anymore. I give up.
I don’t have any painter’s or surgical masks. Will a coffee filter and tape protect me just as well?
I think you need Arabian goggles, too.
Schatzie:
Who the fuck do you think you ARE, using a Canuckistani newspaper graphic to make your point??? ( Based on the font, I think it’s the Telegram, though it mighta been the Globe & Empire. [Old as I am, even *I* wasn't around for that pandemic.] ) You got something against good ol’ USAmerikkkan periodicals? HENNGGG?
Why not try reading, oh I don’t know, maybe the SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE??? You know, that librul rag in your own backyard that reported in ‘77 [probably before you were even hatched, fuckin' newbie] about CIA’s introduction of ’swine flu’ into Cuba [along with dengue fever to incapacitate the workers and a tobacco blight to kill off the cigar trade.]
http://www.maebrussell.com/Health/CIA%20Pig%20Virus.html
Just because Wayne Madsen said it doesn’t make it wrong, particularly if there’s historical precedent for something similar in the past.
On the plus side of your ledger, Alex Jones is a massive asshat, so…. one point for you.
XKCDHas an excellent survival tip for those of us in the prime of our lives:
I’m 43, smokin’ 2 packs a day and taking 5 prescription drugs daily. I think I will survive this ‘killer’ flu.
This reminds me of the final episode of the 2nd season of the greatest TV show ever, Millennium.
As I’ve stated previously somewhere, I listened to Alex Jones daily for a couple years earlier this century. He has a hypnotic style, at least to my ears. I found myself believing him every day, and had a hard time adjusting to reality in the evening. It’s so tempting to believe every bad thing in the world is engineered by the Bilderbergs, the CIA, the UN (basically everyone in the world answers to Henry Kissinger.)
So yeah, I’d like to believe this ‘flu’ is the product of a mistake by the CDC or somebody. Or maybe intentionally spread by the CIA. Who knows. But Occam’s Razor and all that. How could they get away with so many horrible things and yet nobody ever squeals? The inability to answer that question always draws me back to reality.
Also, recently some scientists dug up frozen dead people who’d died of Spanish Flu. It was up near the Arctic Circle in Scandanavia. They wanted to genetically sequence the virus. Those people are at the end of my finger pointing on this one.
Hey, whatever gets me a day or two off work.