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Viruses, I suppose, find travel as much of a drag as the rest of us do, these days. They don't want to have to queue, like a pig on it's way up the stairs to its final destiny, or go through customs either.
'Flat Earth News', by Nick Davies, is a good book to read. It's a long, and consistently well-argued, piece on the subject of how, and why, one shouldn't believe 90% of what gets in the papers, or on telly. It's not one of those Michael Moore things - I still like the Mike-ster, but his work's polemic, basically. 'Flat Earth News', on the other hand, reads as if it's bitterly, sadly accurate.
With all the very real problems the world faces now, swine flu seems like just the sort of junk I might have come up with if I was in the British/US government's pay, and wanted to create a minor media snowstorm, to cover over, like it was a white blankie, other matters.
(Obviously, If I drop dead tomorrow, I'll feel like a fool.) |
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