Thursday, April 30, 2009

Swine Flu!!

Not sure what the big deal is about the "Swine Flu". I understand the break down of the two words: swine....meaning pig....meaning bacon or pork fried rice with egg rolls. (awesome) Flu..meaning influenze...meaning sick.  So put them together! Pig Sick. Sick Pig. Hmmm.. I am still confused. 
I was reading the web about certain countries and how they are reacting to all of this. Egypt for example is slaughtering all of their pigs. 300,000 of them. It sucks to be a pic in Egypt (well I think it would suck to be a pig anyway). Great Britain won't let its citizens that are in Mexico come back until all of this is resolved. DAMN! Talk about an extended vacation. There are already cases spotted in the United States. Great.
I think by attaching "Swine" to the word flu are we are creating something that is larger then what it really is. I understand that the influenza virus mutates and thats the problem they are having in keeping it under control and I understand that the flu is a serious thing to have and we should be taking this whole thing very seriously ( someone has died from it! ) but if you break down the word Swine Flu into Pig Sick...or Bacon Virus...its kinda funny .