Got the sniffles? Swine flu. Got a tickle in your throat? Yup. you got swine flu too. Whether you feel a little bit tired, you've got a headache, or you're just a little bit bored, swine flu is the only possible diagnosis today.
Recession is the mother of opportunity folks. Fortunes can be made by introducing a new name for the same old ailments. New vaccines, new preventative measures and lord knows what else. Swine flu certainly seems to have captured the imagination of the masses. Shit. People can now scare themselves into coming down with it, aided and abetted by the whole machine that is the miracle of modern medicine.
If it had been called 'Slightly Worse than Last Year's Flu flu' and originated in, say, Scunthorpe instead of Mexico, would it have been quite as sexy. I don't think so.
Yesterday, stopping at a filling station to pick up a pack of cigarettes - like vitamin C, a great swine flu deterrent - did you ever meet a pig who smoked? - I was horrified to see the most blatant opportunist practice I've come across in a long time.
Being in a recession, the cost of washing a car has tumbled and, here, it was five euro. All very reasonable but surely 7 euro to wash your hands is taking the piss.
Are you making any money out of it?
ReplyDeleteI hear if one eat's ones greens it can also be a great deterrant?
Enda
Ha ha ha! I ate my greens and I still got it! (Well the doctor insists it's swine flu but I think the MIMS medical dictionary refers to it as 'a sniffle')
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