Recently the people who raise pigs successfully brought tremendous pressure to bear on the people in our government who are in charge of naming what we call things (otherwise called the US Department of Names).
The pig growers were very persuasive and made the following points…
§ The Swine Flu was hurting their businesses.
§ There were definite signs out there that the eating public was becoming afraid of eating pig meat.
§ The American public, being sly, cunning and alert, were fast coming to the conclusion that the Swine Flu could be gotten from eating swine.
It made no difference that the Swine Flu cannot be gotten from eating swine. The contrary is actually the case. The AP ran an article on August 31, 2009 which reported that the people who run County Fairs around the good ole USofA are having to take preventive measures because there is growing evidence that swine are in danger of getting the Swine Flu from being in contact with people with the Swine Flu.
The American Public, as always, does not want to confused by the facts. They want action! They want someone to do something about something or other.
The people who are in charge of naming what we call things decreed that the Swine Flu was dead and in quick order invented the H1N1 Flu.
What a stroke of genius! Who could be worried about eating an H1N1? Now we can all go eat a ham sandwich in complete confidence that we ain’t gonna be attacked by anything flulike.
Considering all of the above, the Smartfella? did think it was funny yesterday when he heard a intrepid member of our News Media say the following, “It looks like the H1N1 Flu, otherwise known as the Swine Flu, has the potential of becoming a major pandemic this fall”.
It appears this Talking Head did not get the Don't-Call-It-Da-Swine-Flu memo.
Would I kid u?
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Footnote:
More Foolishness can be found at:
http://www.northfulton.com/1bloglistingsbody.lasso?-token.blogref=6920.112113
AND/OR
http://forii.blogtownhall.com/
