If there's one truth in this world that we hold sacred its that a flu epidemic brings out the best in everyone. And by "best in everyone" we mean:
1. Clear Bigotry:
Posted by dirkdiggle on 04/28/09 at 8:55AM
Why can't we call it smelly dirty Mexican flu?
That's terrible, just terrible.
2. Nonsensical Incoherent Attempts at Bigotry:
Posted by hippi on 04/28/09 at 12:21AM
The reason why Mexicans are dying,
right now about 1 out of 10 who get the flu is because they are so short
compared to cowboys.
What the hell does that even mean? Is he trying to say the swine flu started with this guy?
Is he going for the angle that Mexicans are generally short and therefore closer to the pigs so they're more likely to catch swine flu? Beyond the obvious idiocy, why the cowboy comparison? We were sleeping when the history teachers taught about the great pig herding cowboys of Mexico?
3. Ignorance Poorly Disguised by the Use of "Facts"
Posted by herehere1 on 04/27/09 at 11:44PM
This is serious business people. Tens of millions died in the 1918 pandemic and it even killed eskimoes in the North Pole. The virus then was 50x more powerful than the usual flue strain. To have people in their 20's and 30's dying in Mexico when it's not even flu season is no joke at all.
No one will dispute that this whole swine flu thing is very serious business, but we'd guess any Eskimos living at the North Pole would have died from the lack of, what's the word, oh yeah, LAND! The north pole is completely ice-covered (at least for now) and only inhabited by Santa. If the flu ever gets up there, however, our prayers go out the elves.
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