Swooning Over Swine Flu
Dammit Nick, you beat me to the punch.
Folks are certainly freaking out over the prospect of the widespread outbreak of the swine flu, but as usual most everybody is overreacting. The regular and non-media-frenzy-worthy flu kills nearly half a million people each year, yet fails to dominate cable news coverage as the swine flu has.
Forgive me for seeming unconcerned, but I’m just recovering from the serious bout I had with the bird flu last year and SARS the year before that.
Oh wait, I’m not. Because those diseases never consumed humanity to the degree Wolf Blitzer had told us all.
Okay, I’m being overly sarcastic for the point of ha-ha’s and lol’s. I do understand that the little game we play each time a disease threatens outbreak is necessary to raise public awareness, test the competency of the government’s response, and engage in preventative measures to limit the propagation of the disease in question. So far we have received strong marks in each of those categories; so I guess I’ll just sit back, shut up, and avoid that sickly looking specimen at the library computer next to me.
P.S. Today, I saw two kids walking around campus with surgical masks on. Really? I mean…Really?
P.P.S. I always like writing a post-postscript because my initials are P.P.
P.P.P.S. I did not proofread this entry.
P.P.P.P.S. Excessive postscripts are surely a sign of unprofessional journalism.
Paul Payer is a Collegian Column...oh wait I don't have to do that for blog posts.
Folks are certainly freaking out over the prospect of the widespread outbreak of the swine flu, but as usual most everybody is overreacting. The regular and non-media-frenzy-worthy flu kills nearly half a million people each year, yet fails to dominate cable news coverage as the swine flu has.
Forgive me for seeming unconcerned, but I’m just recovering from the serious bout I had with the bird flu last year and SARS the year before that.
Oh wait, I’m not. Because those diseases never consumed humanity to the degree Wolf Blitzer had told us all.
Okay, I’m being overly sarcastic for the point of ha-ha’s and lol’s. I do understand that the little game we play each time a disease threatens outbreak is necessary to raise public awareness, test the competency of the government’s response, and engage in preventative measures to limit the propagation of the disease in question. So far we have received strong marks in each of those categories; so I guess I’ll just sit back, shut up, and avoid that sickly looking specimen at the library computer next to me.
P.S. Today, I saw two kids walking around campus with surgical masks on. Really? I mean…Really?
P.P.S. I always like writing a post-postscript because my initials are P.P.
P.P.P.S. I did not proofread this entry.
P.P.P.P.S. Excessive postscripts are surely a sign of unprofessional journalism.
Paul Payer is a Collegian Column...oh wait I don't have to do that for blog posts.
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3:52 PM
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The Thai embassy strongly warns its citizens against travel to certain parts of the United States.
oh my god, really? I just lol'ed all over myself.
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