About a year ago, Tom and I attended a charity auction for the American Diabetes Association. It seemed pretty cool at the time. The person who exhibted the greatest munificence was awarded the dubious honor of kissing a pig in front of all that were assembled. That’s right! The largest donation bought a big, sloppy smackeroo on the snout of a suckling pig. I wonder if this year’s organizers are re-thinking that one? I mean we are all croaking of the swine flu aren’t we?
(Ohhhhhh…my brains are fried. I am cramming for an paper about Asperger’s Sydrome that is due for my class on Thursday. )
But the larger point being…where is the swine flu? Or the bird flu? What ever happened to the West Nile virus? How’s about SARS? Not much mention lately of the antibiotic resistant TB either. Now I know that I may be bringing up a fairly tacky point given that some people have gotten REALLY sick with some of these maladies. Shouldn’t CNN, CNBC and all the other collective media outlets think twice about broadcasting PANIC journalism over some new virus? My basic idea is…sometime, someday, somewhere there really will be a disease that we should take very, very seriously. But, by that time , we will be all so desensitized and blase sitting there in our La-Z-Boy loungers that the new super-bug will be able to sneak up and hit us over the sinus cavities with a giant flu club. (Flu club…what the heck is that?…and on that note I’d better put myself to bed!)
Karin go to bed. I need to use your computer. Love, TommyG