Monday, April 27, 2009

Uncool Flyovers and The Pig Flu

Ah, distraction calls. From MSNBC:


Call me a conspiracy theorist, but how did such a massive oversight get made? Were some of the recent improvements in the economy making the citizenry feel too good? Asinine.

Meanwhile, call me coarse, but these major news outlets need to find something else to talk about besides swine flu. I listened to NPR's Morning Edition for 45 minutes straight and they never strayed from the epidemic. I won't try to degrade the state of affairs for those affected, both living and dead, but such rampant coverage of a "plague" prioritizes profit over peace, even as every report features the message, "It's not time to panic...yet."

4 comments:

Caitlinnn said...

Two million dead. Hospitals overwhelmed. Schools closed. Swaths of empty seats at baseball stadiums and houses of worship. An economic recovery snuffed out.



...

We're nowhere close to what government planners say would be a worst-case scenario: a global flu pandemic.
-Associated Press


when i started that article, i almost shit a brick.
but HAHAHA nah, nothing to worry about.

Adam Coronado said...

Give me a link to this article.

Caitlinnn said...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090428/ap_on_go_ot/us_med_swine_flu_worst_case

Adam Coronado said...

Good god, the media loves a good plague, or at least the idea of one.

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