Am I the only one that suspects

efortune · April 2009

that the government is encouraging the media to hype the crap out of the swine flu to distract us from something else? Seems a game they like to play... dont pay attention to the economy or the war, look at this other impending danger. Hmm...

Jut read an article that WHO upped the threat to a level 5, which means global outbreak is "imminent."

https://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30398682/?GT1=43001

Fear tactics, IMO.

ArmyBride0604 · April 2009

If it's as bad as they say it is, would they let the national treasure that is Spiedi go to Mexico? I think not.

jk09uhed89 · April 2009

i would not at all be surprised

HeyyRed · April 2009

ArmyBride0604:
If it's as bad as they say it is, would they let the national treasure that is Spiedi go to Mexico?? I think not.

No that's called a service to mankind. Hopefully they will both contract a deadly strain of it and do the world a favour.?

Perfectly.Imperfect · April 2009

HeyyRed:
ArmyBride0604:
If it's as bad as they say it is, would they let the national treasure that is Spiedi go to Mexico? I think not.
No that's called a service to mankind. Hopefully they will both contract a deadly strain of it and do the world a favour.

Yes ::starts praying for Red's words to be prophetic::

kiki4 · April 2009

HeyyRed:

ArmyBride0604:
If it's as bad as they say it is, would they let the national treasure that is Spiedi go to Mexico? I think not.

No that's called a service to mankind. Hopefully they will both contract a deadly strain of it and do the world a favour.

We can only hope!!

mrsstocking · April 2009

hadn't crossed my mind but it sorta makes sense. although people are dying

ArmyBride0604 · April 2009

HeyyRed:
ArmyBride0604:
If it's as bad as they say it is, would they let the national treasure that is Spiedi go to Mexico? I think not.
No that's called a service to mankind. Hopefully they will both contract a deadly strain of it and do the world a favour.

Oh for this to come true.

taelir · April 2009

I can see both sides of it, to be truthful.

In some ways, it's fear-mongering. But on the other hand, the fear tactics help scare people into being more precautious than they'd normally be. And right now we kind of need people to be more careful.

Jenn.J. · April 2009

taelir:

I can see both sides of it, to be truthful.

In some ways, it's fear-mongering. But on the other hand, the fear tactics help scare people into being more precautious than they'd normally be. And right now we kind of need people to be more careful.

Yup, and I am all about anything that will make people wash their hands more. I mean, have you ever NOTICED how many people don't do this in public restrooms? Ew.

ChrisnTris · April 2009

Hadn't thought about that either but it makes sense! Stupid media! This whole thing is seriously becoming more and more ridiculous every hour. My mom directs a local preschool and the parents of the 4 year old class are demanding the field trip to the pig farm (fun local place not nasty pig slop yard) be cancelled. Poor kids!

arob2009 · April 2009

mrsstocking:
hadn't crossed my mind but it sorta makes sense. although people are dying

maybe. has anyone noticed that the news was reporting 160 deaths in Mexico, and a more recent report said only 7. Something is definitely up!

ArcticFox · April 2009

Yea, I love how we never hear about the war/occupation of another country/lives lost (or at least we don't hear about it as much as we should).

dottymobo · April 2009

Am I the only one that suspects that scary *** sells papers/ads, and the news channels/papers exist to earn money?

I don't mind a good conspiricy theory, but I think the obvious answer is plenty cynical and makes more sense to boot. Consider: most the American public never gave a crap about most of the world's troubles anyways, and even lost interest in our wars a while ago; it has been suggested that this will worsen economic woes nationally and internationally, so its not really helping in that area; so for this to make sense we'd have to assume more big secret bad news is coming.

mckelvykr · April 2009

efortune:

that the government is encouraging the media to hype the crap out of the swine flu to distract us from something else? Seems a game they like to play... dont pay attention to the economy or the war, look at this other impending danger. Hmm...

Jut read an article that WHO upped the threat to a level 5, which means global outbreak is "imminent."

https://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30398682/?GT1=43001

Fear tactics, IMO.

Um, NO. The media always hypes everything up. Which government would be responsible for telling the media to hype it up? It's the WORLD health organization making these calls, not Obama.

mommymeg914 · April 2009

The media always blows things like this out of proportion. I know it's serious and people are dying, but there was a toddler that died in Houston and now everyone here is freaking out. The child wasn't even from here, he was from Mexico and was brought here to visit family and ended up going to the hospital for treatment. He didn't catch it here. If you listen to our local news you know that, if you listen to a national news you just think Houston has a true case.

Abc123 · April 2009

ArcticFox:
Yea, I love how we never hear about the war/occupation of another country/lives lost (or at least we don't hear about it as much as we should).

This is going to take me off the OT. But in a twisted way I am OK with this!! When my husband was in Iraq last year the last thing I wanted to hear about every time I turned on the TV was lives lost. It made me worry and fret. At the same time I do think it's sad that people die every day in this war and people have lost sight of that.

Sorry...I know that's now what this post was about, but I wanted to add my two cents!

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