Sunday, October 16, 2005

Bird Flu Schmird Flu

Romania Officials Urge Calm on Bird Flu

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) - Romanian authorities called for calm Saturday as they quarantined an eastern region where tests confirmed Europe's first appearance of a deadly strain of bird flu that has devastated flocks and killed dozens of people in Asia. Poland's government, meanwhile, banned the...

If all this flu can do is kill "dozens of people in Asia" then sweet mother of pearl stop already with the caterwauling. One would imagine that the filth and squalor of the asian marketplaces would result in tens of thousands of deaths there and in other dirty places such as Pakistan where mudslides wiped out those thousands of fools who were only recently partying hearty in response to the wrath of allah that smote New Orleans.

Thousands of people in Asia die each and every bloody day from conditions even one of their homegrown "doctors" could cure prescribing nothing more than aspirin and bedrest, so I'll once and for all end my commenting upon such abject nonsense. This is after all the part of the world that brought acupuncture and feng shui di pooey into prominence because not a single inquisitive mind EVER thought to learn about the real workings of the human body, so they jab themselves with filthy needles and inhale lotus blossom oil while rubbing shark fin ointments on their private parts after chowing down on rhino horn soup to keep their miniscule weenies up and about. Hell, even the barbaric moslems know the value of a good antibiotic, but then again one must learn such things if one is to continue carnal knowledge with camels and goats and lord knows what else.

Dozens of Asians die every day from overindulging in late night snacks of blowfish poison used as hot sauce on still-living octopi, so please find a real disease to scare the shit out of us with, okay.

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