Daily Archives: July 23, 2009
Swine Flu Death Toll Reaches 30… The End Is Neigh!!
The swine flu death toll hit 30. Oh yea Lord above have mercy on our collective ass during this period of vengeful pestilence. Only the penitent man will pass – we have been forsaken and should now crack each other’s heads open and feast off the goo we find within. In case you couldn’t tell – I was being sarcastic.
Just before we start ramming steaks into each other’s hearts and looting churches for large crucifixes perhaps we should look at the real viral pandemic; the scare mongering media and their carcinogenic manipulations.
Yesterday a girl of 15 died of swine flu. What do people read? Not the parenthesis in the middle of the sentence that states categorically that she had major underlying health concerns, but that people are dying of swine flu. How can that death possibly be accredited to swine flu?
If a man is walking down the street just after being diagnosed with swine flu and a large anvil drops from the sky and kills him, does that count toward the swine flu death toll? Or someone is shot 16 times but then after the blood work comes back from the autopsy – “I thought so, cause of death swine flu”.
It is high times for murders, as all they need to do is kill people with swine flu and they cannot possibly be prosecuted. “Another swine flu victim, standard MO, stabbed in the bladder and set fire to, god damn swine flu, if only, if only it was a virus with mild, standard flu-like symptoms!”
Oh hang on… it actually is.
15 year old girl dies, it is tragic. People die all the time. 600,000 people every year equating to 1645 people every day, some of those people are young. Why use this tragedy to perpetuate this media franchise of Armageddon? Because reporting on the thousands of people who have recovered is not sensationalist enough.
When the H1N1 virus first kicked off in Mexico the media were all over it. Surely there must have been some point when they were waiting on their Reuters news feeds just thinking, “This is thin, really thin. Oh another 72 year-old Mexican unicyclist died yesterday, sounds like swine flu to me!”
Wales Gets Trains
Ok, they’ve had them for a while – although it might surprise some. The big news today is that the government is going to spend 1 billion pounds on electrifying the railway line between Swansea and London.
According to a guy called Lord Adonis (cool name, but the man himself is arguably the anti Lord Adonis): “With the electric trains you get a quieter, cleaner, more reliable and much cheaper train which benefits passengers and it also benefits the taxpayers because it’s much cheaper to keep an electric railway going”.
The news will be exciting for people who like trains. It is generally accepted that the British really need to move from road to rail – but some might argue how it can reasonably be achieved when the cost of travelling on the train system is comparable to that of using a car. When private companies run these systems it might be argued that the focus is on short term profit rather than long term advances in public transport.
Can private enterprise really bring about the technological improvements required to give Britain the sophisticated transport system is needs? If you look at al the big developments in transport, they are catalysed by government. The tilting train that graces so many of our train lines was actually an invention of the then state-owned British Rail. Margaret Thatcher took the decision to scrap BR’s attempts to develop the tilting train – and forced it sell the concept to an Italian firm.
Now the Italians, having perfected the tilting system, are essentially selling us back our own invention. The point is that only large scale state funding can really advance transport. Would Concorde have ever existed if it wasn’t backed up by the British and French governments?
