A good friend came up with the perfect solution to the swine flu pandemic — or at least for the pandemic of media-fueled hysteria over the disease. He pointed out that as of today, there are 131 confirmed cases of swine flu in the United States. (My favorite line about this is still the Daily Show‘s John Oliver who said the statistics show that “practically no one has swine flu,” but I’m repeating myself.) OK, so there are 131 confirmed cases. According to my friend, we can stop the whole thing by simply shooting these sick people. At that point, their deaths would come under the statistics for deaths by gun violence and, as a result, no one would pay attention to them anymore. Now wasn’t that easy?
This article appears in Apr 28 – May 5, 2009.
interesting this thing is spreading like wildfire.
get a load of this scary Report.
http://forecastfortomorrow.com/Files/swineflu.pdf
People love to beat up on guns but it is people that kill not guns. Did anyone see in Europe the other day where a guy went bezerk and smashed into innocent civilians just to get at the queen. I saw an interesting comment. “When is someone going to make a law to stop these assault cars?” The article worded the incident like the car did the killing when it was the guy who drove it. The same idea holds for guns. Anyways the daily shows joke was funny. The government plays around with other figures in a similar but less drastice way all the time. The autism scare is a good example. The number of people with autism didnt really change but what did change was the requirements to be called autistic.