Apr
30
Got this picture emailed to me today. Made me laugh, and also got me thinking. Firstly, why are they calling it “swine” flu? Surely “Pig Flu” would make more sense? They didn’t call the “Bird Flu” the “Avian Flu”, did they? Secondly, if you wanted to get the whole world vaccinated with your hyper expensive drugs with all their lovely side effects, what would be the quickest way to do it? Scare everybody to death with a new virus? It’s worked before. This is genius viral marketing.
April 30th, 2009 at 3:19 am
“Avian Influenza” was a commonly used term, but still, swine flu doesn’t make sense. Its a technical term (swine) mixed with a colloquial term (flu) – the brilliance with bird flu was that the meds to stop h5n1 had a two week shelf life, so it was being stockpiled by every man and his dog, and every two weeks they chucked the old stuff, and bought new stuff.
The face mask companies also killed it – we had 3 pallets of face masks sitting at work in Phnom Penh.
April 30th, 2009 at 6:59 am
1976 – The vaccination did more harm than the outbreak:
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/04/29/Swine-Flu.aspx
May 1st, 2009 at 4:36 pm
[...] the “Babe 3: Swine Flu” trailer to the little bastard that gave us all swine flu and finally, not even winnie the pooh can resist the piss [...]
February 1st, 2010 at 2:07 pm
Fantastic picture!