The world is coming to an end!!!!!!

Anyone else completely tired of this bullshit swine flu coverage?  Seriously I try to be a good upstanding citizen and log on to cnn.com first thing in the morning, and this is the photo I see.  My fault really, I guess that is what you get when you use the internet for anything other than porn.  

Anyway, about this epidemic.  Mexican health officials (good lord, there are 3 words that deserve a post of their own, I am quite certain I am over qualified to be a Mexican health official) suspect swine flu has killed at 159 deaths and 2,500 illnesses.  The World Health Organization says there have been 112 confirmed cases.   

You know what disease causes between 250,000 and 500,000 deaths a year????  The flu.  So let's just look at that range, if we were to say 1,000 people died a day that would be 365,000, so right in the middle.  And we are worried because it mutated to a strand that has, by Mexican health officials estimates, killed 159.  

Think about how you stop the spread of the flu, basically stop being a slob and be clean.  Wash your hands, use tissues, drink liquids, etc, etc.  Quick name a filthy country where every time you go there at least 5 people will make a joke beforehand about "not drinking the tap water".  Is it really so damn shocking that a country that has problems with quality tap water would get it's ass kicked by the flu?  

But now thanks to the media trying to play off of people's fears it is being reported like the world is ending tomorrow.  And the sad shit is people believe it!  Which again is another reason why I hate people.  As a species we are so fucking neurotic we spend all of our time looking for what is going to kill us next.  Either that or it is an elaborate hoax created by the makers of those little blue masks designed to increase sales.