May 30, 2006

• Man, I just have to say that I'm sick of all this bird flu paranoia. Oprah was on today making analogies, showing Katrina footage. This is ridiculous! Her guest is telling us that we're not prepared at all for a major epidemic, we only spent $4 billion on vaccinations instead of $7 billion, etc etc.

  
  

  Hey:

  
  

  
  

  1. If you're given $4 billion, don't whine that it's not enough (because nothing will ever be enough), do the best you can with it because that's still a lot of money. Also, get rid of all of this bureaucratic corruption and it'll go twice as far.
  

  2. There are thousands of people today warning us of asteroids, earthquakes, cloning, global warming, Martians, tsunamis, homosexuals, Y2K, El Nino, and 100 other things. So once one of those happens, everyone gets to say "I told you so" and feel righteous when in reality there's no way we can prepare for everything, and we really shouldn't be expected to.

  
  

  3. And furthermore, this whole thing is doubly stupid because all of these historical epidemics that people keep bringing up happened before we developed modern sanitation!

  
  

  A bunch of housewives are getting scared and duct taping up their windows right now just because:

  
  

  
  

  1. The media wants to scare people to get ratings.

  
  

  2. A bunch of scientists want to feel important.

  

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