pablomorgan
Well-known member
The country, nay the world, appears to be in the dangerous grip of swine flu - so serious that the first two "victims" in Scotland are eh released from hospital after just a few days, and are now "very well".
Why must society and the press have this panicked reaction to what is more apparently a new localised variety of flu that is 100% treatable in most civilised countries? Bird flu in 2005-6, we were told by the World Health Organisation, could kill 150 million. In the end there were fewer than 150 deaths, the majority in Indonesia and Vietnam, while 200 million birds were killed worldwide.
As Michael Winner might say: "Calm down, dear, it's just a bacon butty."
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Rob Morton, Glasgow.
Given that the Mexican swine flu virus is a hybrid between human, pig and bird strains, I am reminded of the poem Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll, in which "the mome raths outgrabe". Outgribing, the author explains, means making a sound that starts with a grunt, has a sneeze in the middle and ends with a whistle. Beware the Jabberwock, my son. It hasn't been quarantined.
Jeff Fallow, Windygates, Fife.
http://www.theherald.co.uk/features...eak_of_swine_flu_is_much_to_be_sneezed_at.php
Why must society and the press have this panicked reaction to what is more apparently a new localised variety of flu that is 100% treatable in most civilised countries? Bird flu in 2005-6, we were told by the World Health Organisation, could kill 150 million. In the end there were fewer than 150 deaths, the majority in Indonesia and Vietnam, while 200 million birds were killed worldwide.
As Michael Winner might say: "Calm down, dear, it's just a bacon butty."
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Rob Morton, Glasgow.
Given that the Mexican swine flu virus is a hybrid between human, pig and bird strains, I am reminded of the poem Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll, in which "the mome raths outgrabe". Outgribing, the author explains, means making a sound that starts with a grunt, has a sneeze in the middle and ends with a whistle. Beware the Jabberwock, my son. It hasn't been quarantined.
Jeff Fallow, Windygates, Fife.
http://www.theherald.co.uk/features...eak_of_swine_flu_is_much_to_be_sneezed_at.php