Keeping with the Homeland Security Department's non-use of the words "War On Terror" or "terrorists", I thought I would create a new DHS politically correct name.
“the other white meat sniffles and coughs”.
LOL. :)
I’m personally annoyed that they are calling this “swine flu”. I’m living in an agricultural area right now, and frankly calling it “swine flu” doesn’t denote the proper ‘respect’ for what doctors and researchers and others are dealing with right now...
I really wish they’d call it something more descriptive, or different something like perhaps; Mexican Avian/Swine Flu or something (to denote the first appearance and highest concentration, and seemingly highest fatality rate’s geographic location, as well as including the Avian signifier to differentiate between the naturally occurring Swine Flu Viruses that are NOT capable of Human-Human transmission, and are common among people who have close contact with live infected pigs for whatever reason, and this particular Virus.
This is especially important in light of the fact that our media isn’t the greatest at relaying accurate information, especially about topics that are much more complicated than your average ‘car crash’ story, especially when it involves a more complex than usual understanding of medicine and illness to accurately report on this situation, IMHO.
If the CDC and such don’t do, IMHO, more to focus in on specific information on behalf of responsibly informing our public and taking into the consideration the state of the world’s mass media in regards to this disease we will either have undue panic, or failure to recognize a ‘known danger’ that we can do a lot to combat against if we work together...
ALL JHMO...