The swine
Sun 13th Dec 2009
I am pretty sure that if I entered a competition, to name a new form of pandemic flu, first prize a trip to Mexico my answer wouldn’t be ‘Swine’. But I guess that I might not have forseen the involvement of the pig, so what do I know? The media here are loving this. Yes they would deny it, but if you can put on your front page that 750,000 people are likely to die, why be realistic? U was in town today and i decided to take the bus into town. And i had people left,right and centre coughing their guts up. Sometimes i think they've got this swine flu.
I am not trying to make light of this whole thing, since people have died and it is pretty worrying to those directly involved. However, I think the hysteria misleads and detracts from the seriousness of the situation. Plus please don’t let my reintroduction to clinical nursing be at the sharp end of a surgical mask dishing out antivirals!!!
But luckly i've avoided it for the time being if i was to catch it i would kill myself, but then again i wouldn't need to bother as this flu would do the job for me. My online pal from down south has already had it. People from Blackpool about 20+ have had it, sohow have i manged to escape this bug?