The Swine Flu Is NOT As Serious As the Media Portrays It To Be

If you've been living under a metaphorical rock for the past week or so, a "pandemic" of a particular strain of the influenza virus, the swine virus, named after the original organism which contained it. The biggest difference between this and the common cold is that flu shots are ineffective against this strain. Having broken out and killed several people in Mexico, and infecting a few in the United States, you'd be hard pressed to watch a news program and not have the swine flu mentioned within the first three stories.

So, flu shots are ineffective against this disease...

BIG






DEAL.

People are treating this as if its some killer pandemic that will cause the eventual demise of everyone on the planet. The media may have you think otherwise, but just because flu shots are ineffective against this particular disease DOESN'T MEAN MANY PEOPLE ARE GOING TO DIE. The virus is not in any way more harmful to you than the common cold, but people seem to think that the apocalypse has come.

Our bodies don't have immune systems for no reason. They're designed to fight off diseases such as this, and drinking your orange juice and getting plenty of rest WILL get it out of your system. It's just like your average flu. The only people who should actually be concerned about this disease are the elderly, the very young, and people with another disease affecting their immune system such as HIV-AIDS.

Which brings me to another good point. People are freaking out over the swine flu, yet no-one seems to care about AIDS anymore. What happened? Did they find a cure? No. HIV-AIDS still continues to kill millions every year, and when compared to ALL kinds of influenzas, seems like a much bigger thing to worry about.

Remember a few years back, when the SARS disease was affecting countries such as China. American media seemed to be reporting about SARS significantly less then about the swine flu, yet the SARS virus killed around 700 people, and infected 8000. Yet, so far, the swine flu has infected 40 people, and killed 1.

And that 1 person who died was a toddler. I'm not saying this toddler's death is not a saddening event, but it was a toddler. Whose immune system hadn't fully developed. The toddler might as well have died from the common cold.

Quit Listening To Fox (Faux) News.

Not Pictured: The Swine Flu.

New Comic, Courtesy Of Captain ADD

Well, check out that there comic. It's sweet, isn't it? You can check out more of Captain ADD's work here. Excellent work, Captain ADD, I hope our writer/artist collaborations churn out more epicness sometime in the near future.

Perez Hilton Needs To Grow Up

For those of you who don't know, Perez Hilton is an openly gay blogger and television personality. Being somewhat popular, he was chosen as a judge for the Miss America 2009 beauty pageant, which some would say is a stupid idea having an openly gay internet blogger as a judge for a female beauty pageant. Miss California, a finalist, was asked about her view on gay marriage during the question part of the pageant a question by Hilton, which can be seen here:



In response to this, Perez Hilton posted a vlog expressing his hate over not the answer in question, but Miss California as a person,, using colourful language to insult her, only because of her slight intolerance towards gay marriage, calling her answer the “the worst answer in pageant history”. Judging from the scoring and many interviews with the judges, this question alone cost her the competition, as she would have won if it wasn't for this question.

Now, honestly. This makes Hilton just as bad as Miss California. Everyone is entitled to an opinion, and while Miss California disagreed with Hilton on gay marriage, she was very polite and as politically correct about it as she could possibly be without changing her opinion. She didn't attack gays. She didn't attack same-sex marriage. She answered the question exactly as it asked, “Vermont recently became the fourth state to legalize same-sex marriage. Do you think every state should follow suit? Why or why not?”

The question WASN'T "Agree with my view on a very controversial issue or it'll cost you your hopes and dreams of becoming Miss America". Hell, even I don't agree with Prejean on her views on same-sex marriage, but that doesn't mean I'm going to hate her. That doesn't mean that I think she's a prejudiced, minority hating person. I'm not going to go ahead and whine on the internet about what she is. Why? Because she didn't spread any hate or prejudice whatsoever.

What did you expect, Hilton? Honestly, when you come from a right-wing, Catholic family, OF COURSE YOUR GOING TO BE AGAINST GAY MARRIAGE. Prejean GREW UP against gay marriage, but that doesn't necessarily mean she's prejudiced against gays. This makes YOU the intolerant one here, Hilton.

It's ironic, isn't it? The fact that Hilton is so greatly against any kind of intolerance towards gays that he himself is prejudiced against anyone who disagrees with his views.

Grow up, Hilton. Act your age, and stop being so hypocritical. EVERYONE is entitled to an opinion, and just as Miss California respects yours, you should respect hers.

Besides, that wasn't the worst answer in pageant history...



..this was

If you want to see Perez Hilton's video, here it is: