Nov 3, 2009
Here are my thoughts on the current H1N1 flu. I was reading today on the “Facebook” and saw some 22,000 plus people had joined a group called close schools because of the swine flu. I had to join and I had to read the wisdom behind this suggestion. Well there is none. They do have a fancy, very scary logo though.
Here’s my take.
The Logo is dumb, the hype is dumb, the billions of dollars being made off this “pandemic” is dumb, the whole thing is dumb! Thousands die every year from the flu… and car accidents, cancer, aids, being hit by busses… why not put all of the students, teachers, hyper reactive parents in a padded room and let them live out their days being fed a liquid diet so they don’t choke! This is the most asinine over-blown media driven event ever (except SARS, Bird Flu, Mad Cow, Y2K and soon 2012). God help us if we have a real global crisis. It’s sad that people get sick and die… but this is not the global emergency that we have spread. If schools wanted to do something of value then make a massive effort to ban smoking within 2 km’s of your school. Way more people will die from lung cancer then will ever die from the swine flu.
I was in mexico at the height of the scare last spring and came back with sure enough… H1N1. I survived, I stayed home for a couple of days and now I am living to type this BLOG. Please people, parents (that’s me too), media, school’s and school boards take a deep breath (somewhere away from anyone who might be coughing) and calm down. We will be ok.
Wash your hands, drink liquids, take natural vitamin C and don’t share your pepsi…. you (the VAST, VAST majority) will live!
PS the drug companies are about to make over 4 billion dollars… hmmm
Posted by Stu Saunders in Leadership on Nov 3, 2009 at 9:30 am | Permanent Link | Comments (1)
Comment posted on Nov 3, 2009 at 10:53 am by ElizabethB (YLCC Member)
that’s exactly what my mom and i said. sure the swine flu is bad and its really tragic that people are dying but it’s no different that the 4000+ that die every year from other flu strains.
NOW speaking as someone who has just started feeling sick, sure i’m a little nervous but i take heed and don’t panic. i’ll talk to my mom, i’ve upped my fulid intake and have started taking cough syrup. that’s all i can do for now.
people need to take a breath and reevaluate the stats of this flu against others