Swine Flu makes me Sick!

New Year, new fashionable pandemic! It has come to that time of year again, when a few people die from slight variant of an existing disease, and the whole world has flipped into a sensationalistic frenzy, yet again claiming that this year's disease is the one to cause much death. Mr Eagle Eye suspects that these nonsense-sprouting fools must have contracted somne kind of disease of the mind for them to be coughing up such garbage!

Before we pass judgement on this latest sputtering upstart, Mr Eagle Eye shall summarise the facts, via Peck Points of course:

• In it's home country of Mexico, 149 people have died as of this peck point, with 2,000 people infected. Mathematically speaking, that is a death rate of just over 7.45%.
• Swine Flu originiates from Pigs, and it is not possible to catch Swine Flu from contaiminated Pork. Great news for Mr Eagle Eye, who loves his meat!
  
• The diesease is spread via coughing and sneezing.
• The USA has 12 million doses of Tamiflu being readied from federal reserves, and the UK has confirmed that it has 33 million Tamiflu vaccines in stockpiles (f**k the credit crunch, that's where all the money went!!), which can administer over half of the UK population!
• Swine Flu does not have the same ring to it as Bird Flu, therefore it is not as cool.

Therefore, it is pretty safe to assume that Swine Flu will choke up a small mess, and be cleaned up pretty damn quickly, as was the case of Bird Flu and SARS. Those who were predicting, or hoping for, a global pandemic will have to face the music!



Nothing to get your feathers in a flap about! If anybody in the UK dies of Swine Flu, Mr Eagle Eye will immediately point his feathers in the direction of the government! 33 million Tamiflu vaccines and you still managed to screw up?

What will it be next year? Cow Flu? Cat Flu? More people will die this year of binge drinking than Swine Flu, even if this over-rated cold starts to... catch on!