WTF #1 - Swine Flu should be renamed:
"In the public, we've been seeing a fair amount of misconception," CDC acting director Richard Besser said, stressing that pigs were the origin of only one component of the flu strain now afflicting people worldwide.
"That's not helpful to pork producers, that's not helpful to people who eat pork. It's not helpful to people who are wondering how they can get this infection," he said.
"So we're discussing, is there a better to way to describe this that would not lead to inappropriate actions on people's part."
Let me get this straight. People across the planet are being sickened, hospitalized, dying, and our officials are worried that someone might be offended by the label SWINE FLU? You've got to be kidding me. We have a PANDEMIC on our hands. People will DIE by the hundreds and thousands, but our political leaders are afraid that agribusiness is being harmed by the fact that this new virus is being called SWINE FLU. Sorry, politicians, but I'm going to keep referring to it as swine flu, and I'm sure most of the world will, too. We've got little pity for the fat cats who cram millions of pigs in closed quarters just so they can increase their profit. Bureaucrats can call it what they want. It started on hog farms--it's swine flu.
WTF #2 - Kooky US Senator Michelle Bachmann blames Democrats:Said Bachmann: "I find it interesting that it was back in the 1970s that the swine flu broke out then under another Democrat president Jimmy Carter. And I'm not blaming this on President Obama, I just think it's an interesting coincidence."
Only problem is, Michelle, that Gerald Ford, a Republican, was president in 1976 when swine flu broke out at Ft. Dix.
For more of Bachmann's special brand of lunacy, watch the video at PajamasTV.
Yep, that sure does sound like her
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