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The Swine Flue has arrived in my little town in the middle of winter, which is really good timing.
Now look, no kidding! If it’s a pandemic, when would you rather have it? In summer, when you are on holiday catching the big fish, when you have to mow the lawn or when you are already pissed off because you have to go to work when everybody else is on vacation? I’ll have it in winter any day, thank you very much! Give me more bugs now, maybe I get some sick leave, maybe I still pretend I want to go to work and I don’t understand while are all avoiding me. Winter is the time when you’re best to stay inside anyway, so it’s the right season for home quarantine.
For the moment this is a rather mild disease anyway. The vast majority of us get well in no time, with almost no side effects. Look at me! I’m already cured and I never felt better:
I have to admit that the World Health Organisation has a point: we should not call it Swine Flu. It’s actually Human and the pigs are the victims of our aggression. Who would you blame in this incident of inter-species contamination? Is it the pig who is confined to its pen and has no choice but to communicate in its normal and friendly way? Or is it the human, conqueror of Troy, Mount Everest, the South Pole, the Outer Space and Destroyer of the Moa bird, of the Bengal Tiger (almost), not to mention other species I don’t really know but of which there were many, perhaps including the dinosaurs who managed to survive the first alien spacecraft departure? Take a moment and look intently at this snapshot of what we call humanity but Al Gore is right to call Global Warming:
What really puzzles me is what the trained eye can see in the right lower corner!
Casually wearing a sandal (just to remind everyone of the Roman military might and international ambition), guess who is actually supervising, if not encouraging this “accidental contact”!
Do you need a clue? I’ll give you two:
a) it starts with PHARMA___ and ends in ___CEUTICAL;
b) sorry, you don’t really need the second word because you may place it first.
Tags: al gore, army, politics, swine flu, world news