Short Entry

I was away from a PC all day yesterday so first of all Hippo Birdies to Michael! and Happy Belated B-Day to Dale Jr.!

Now...

Some Perspective.

In the face of the 117 human cases of Asian Avian Flu reported by the World Health Organization that the media if having fits over, here’s a little something you may have missed a few years back: over million cases of Dengue & Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever in South America over 2000 and 2001 South America is a heck of a lot closer to this country than Turkey is. This epidemic actually made it as far as Panama before it was stopped by the WHO, PAHO (The Pan American Health Organization) and the CDC.

Hear anything about it?

Didn’t think so.

I’m not saying that we shouldn’t be concerned, of course we should. We should be working on vaccines and the CDC, NCID, FDA, Immigration and local health organizations should be on their toes and prepared for this. But I do find it interesting that the Bush administration and the American media is doing their best to incite panic over a 117 cases when 5 years ago when 24 thousand people in Venezuela didn’t even raise a blip on the radar screen.

Just something to think about.

P.S. I told you it was a bunch of stoned Iraqi Teenagers.

I'm really tried of people trying to scare me, whoever the hell they are. I'm just sick of it.

I’ll be back with Devastation and Reaction and Why Eeyore Kicks Butt, right after this…