Swine flu. It's 1976 all over again!

This is the last thing the world's fragile economic state needed. Should this reach pandemic proportions with people not leaving their houses we'll be stepping out into a whole new world once we unlock our doors.

Since last September when the false, easily affordable, high living fable fell apart it's been one major blow after another. I suppose it a smack of reality hitting hard and fast. We cannot live on promises, we cannot destroy the very place that sustains us, we cannot shove thousands of animals into a building, beef them up on man made drugs never allowing them to move more than a few inches and expect all to be well. Consumers, consume. We seem to be ravenous.

I suppose it's more than just a coincidence that "consumption" has the meanings it has?

Now as an aside here's a BBC link. Do you think this is an issue that really needs to be made at this time in human history? Is this how "politically correct" we must be? I say worry less about the name and more about the cause and effects!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8021301.stm