Monday, May 4, 2009

The Swiney Hiney

Over the weekend, my sister's facebook status referred to "H1N1."  Somebody with eyes like mine read that as "HINEY".  Add the "Swine" part onto it and you get "Swiney Hiney."  If you're a bicyclist, you probably know what a "Shiney Hiney" is...

But it brings up the point of how insane our reaction to this flu is.  I'm not denying the significance to people who have actually gotten sick, and lord knows I wouldn't want to minimize the importance to the families of those who have died.  But let's get some perspective here folks.  We're not talking about the Black Plague.  We're talking about the flu.  This isn't 1918.  We aren't just out of a catastrophic war.  We've got anti-viral drugs.  We've got modern methods of diagnosis and record-keeping.  We need to be careful.  We don't need to panic.

In fact, in keeping with that,



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