It seems everyone is getting in a right old panic about the outbreak of swine flu that started in Mexico and is now spreading across the world. As far as I know, as I write there are 2 confirmed cases in the UK, in Scotland.
I don't mean this as a flippant post - clearly a virus which has managed to transfer from pig to human, and then mutate to be able to spread from person to person is a cause for concern - but it seems that the paranoiacs and conspiracy theorists are gathering online to scare themselves silly. I have seen comments now on various news articles stating that this is probably a scheme cooked up by "them" (I assume that "they" are the various governments of the world) in order to, amongst other things; reduce the population, prevent people from gathering and protesting, distract us from the economic crisis and so on. The thing is, I really don't think that is very likely at all - it would require a level of organisation that the retards in charge just don't seem capable of.
Mind you, I did make the mistake of taking a look at the HealthMap, a global disease alert website and I must admit it scared the hell out of me. If you have even the slightest hypochondriac tendencies I urge you not to look at it because otherwise the information (I never knew there were so many diseases) is quite scary. Ebola in Germany. Rabies in Ireland. TB in England...and diseases that sound so scary "the strangles" anyone? How about chikungunya? that I must resist the urge to google them or I might never leave my house again.
I think the thing that worries me the most with all these disease, but especially with things like TB and recently the swine flu outbreak is that most people are mucky buggers. Every time I leave the house I see several people who cough and sneeze without covering their faces, or who hack and cough and spit in the street. Whenever I use a public toilet I see people who don't bother to wash their hands. So really, if a major outbreak did hit this country I imagine it would be able to spread quite easily. While I cower in my house eating heated up tins of soup and hoping it leaves me unscathed.
One last note (and it isn't meant to sound crass) In light of the swine flu outbreak, and the earthquake in Mexico - how long do you think it will be before some religious nutter tries to blame it on sodomy, or promiscuity, or secularization?
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"I have seen comments now on various news articles stating that this is probably a scheme cooked up by "them".......The thing is, I really don't think that is very likely at all - it would require a level of organisation that the retards in charge just don't seem capable of. "
sheep! just because they're corrupt doesn't mean they're incapable. I think it quite likely that this could have been a manufactured disease, as with AIDS (though i recently read something about the origins of it going beyond what we originally though, so maybe it wasn't).
As always though, George Carlin says it best:
"History is not happenstance: it is conspiratorial. Carefully planned and executed by people in power."
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