As I have received negative comments towards my swine flu rant, I shall attempt to retort them.
Dear Anonymouse #1 and #2,
At the time of writing, outside of Mexico, the swine flu has only managed to kill one toddler. And only one person other then that (in the US) has been hospitalized. Why? Because unlike the pitiful health care in Mexico, developed countries have managed to successfully treat those infected with the virus.
My empathy towards the victims of the flu virus was never mentioned in my original rant. I never said I don't care. People die every 6 seconds. Dying of the flu isn't any more significant or tragic than someone dying of anything else. There are many more victims of various diseases to be empathetic for. For example, HIV. Do people still remember this? In 2007 alone, 270, 000 CHILDREN died of HIV. If you do the math, that's more than 4 times the amount of child mortality due to HIV DAILY then the amount of people who have died of the swine flu as of today, 2nd May.
My original rant wasn't about the Swine Flu not being a problem, because among the plethora of global issues today, it is. It was that the media was blowing it WAY out of proportion. Perhaps people should worry about the bigger picture, and more serious death-causing events like; drugs, car crashes, cancer, rather then having to make a bigger than needed fuss about the Swine flu.
5 comments:
May 3, 2009 at 8:53 PM
ahh shane always has the most chat comebacks. wut with the random references to random crap that noone cares about, but hey i'm not complaining about you nor complimenting you so..uhh fuckk lost my trail of thought. nvm :D
May 6, 2009 at 9:45 PM
When you use the word "only", it just shows how much you really care.
You can't tell people what to worry about. Leave people alone to set their own priorities. Not the whole world is worrying about the swine flu.
Learn to spell anonymous, by the way.
May 8, 2009 at 5:31 PM
Anonymouse is how me and Midg3y affectionately spell Anonymous.
It should also be noted that these "Rants" should not be taken that seriously, as they (as rants usually are) sometimes exaggerated a little. I am, by no means, backpedaling what I've said so far about the Swine flu. Nor was I ranting about people worrying about the swine flu, I was ranting about the media.
By "only kill one toddler", I meant when in comparison to other diseases like HIV. It's necessarily that I don't care. I should have structured the response so that would be clearer, so for that I apologize.
May 10, 2009 at 9:45 PM
I don't spell Anonymous like that :D
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