Thread: The H1N1 Finger Pointing Game

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So who's to blame? Is it the Mexican government for not protecting the people with some corporate restrictions? Is it the American pig farm for not showing the leadership themselves? Is it both. This is a divisive poll, but I don't want it to be a divisive issue for us. I just want to know how we might best step forward to prevent the truly destructive pandemic of the future from wiping out millions. Should we even bother trying?

X

I'm going to point the finger at the Obama administration.

The W.H.O. announced today that the current strain of "Swine Flu" is no more virulent or deadly than our usual annual flu. The only added danger is that nobody is vaccinated against it.


Why does that lead me to blame the Obama administration?

Simple.

Someone is trying to wag the dog, and it's usually someone high up, doing lots of stupid things they don't want people to watch too closely.

You don't really expect anybody to take this thread seriously do you X?

Originally Posted by JMS

You don't really expect anybody to take this thread seriously do you X?

Everyone else seems to take it seriously enough.

Originally Posted by xman

Everyone else seems to take it seriously enough.

Based on the poll results it looks like the majority of posters are having you on. They are humoring you, minus the superfluous "U".

Originally Posted by JMS

Based on the poll results it looks like the majority of posters are having you on. They are humoring you, minus the superfluous "U".

When I need your opinion I'll ask for it, okay?

Originally Posted by JMS

Based on the poll results it looks like the majority of posters are having you on. They are humoring you, minus the superfluous "U".

Superfluous? SUPERFLUOUS?!?! Or maybe you'd like to spell that 'superfluos'?

Good grief, is nothing holy anymore? You'll be trying to spell 'grey' with an 'a' next!

Outrageous!

Originally Posted by VeeDubb65

I'm going to point the finger at the Obama administration.

The W.H.O. announced today that the current strain of "Swine Flu" is no more virulent or deadly than our usual annual flu. The only added danger is that nobody is vaccinated against it.


Why does that lead me to blame the Obama administration?

Simple.

Someone is trying to wag the dog, and it's usually someone high up, doing lots of stupid things they don't want people to watch too closely.

So the WHO bringing the world up to Level 5 on the pandemic alert index PRIOR to realizing "this isn't so bad" was all the Obama administration?

Mmmmmm...paranoia.

Originally Posted by JimR

So the WHO bringing the world up to Level 5 on the pandemic alert index PRIOR to realizing "this isn't so bad" was all the Obama administration?

Mmmmmm...paranoia.

Might not be Obama. Could be the queen of England for all I know. However, it seems clear that this whole thing has been ridiculously blown out of proportion, well above and beyond any reasonable level.

The only reason to do that is to wag the dog.


edit - Just for the record, I'm not taking this thread any more seriously than the title implies. "Finger Pointing Game." But, if we're going to play the finger pointing game, that's my play. Blame it on those in power because this seems to me to be nothing more than a ridiculous attempt to distract us all from things like the economy, or the fact that Kim Jong Psycho from Pyongyang is dieing, and rapidly transitioning all power and authority to the military.

I voted end is nigh, not so much because the end is actually nigh, but because sooner or later the human population suffers from a pandemic. Pigs, birds, monkeys, doesn't matter. It would be fantasy to think the world will never again suffer a pandemic. It's nature, simple. One of Malthus' three positive checks on population growth (war, famine, disease).

But I like the idea of blaming the Queen. I mean, it's amazing how nothing ever sticks to her -- Princes Charles, William, Harry, Andrew, Philip, and Diana, Fergie etc. They've all been in the headlines for some issue or other, but the Queen... she just glides through life like teflon. I reckon David Icke was right... clearly she's an alien lizard life form taking the shape of a human and is responsible for introducing swine flu to the human population in order to remove the human species so her own can colonise the world.