Piggies

Afghanistan has quarantined its 1 pig in the Kabul Zoo,
while Egypt has resorted to snuffing all of it's 300,000 pigs...

Sounds a bit excessive considering Egypt hasn't even had a confirmed case,
but whatever.

I would love nothing more than to be a
complacent affiliate of the panic and the fear-mongering
and remind the petrified bourgeois
that the
1918 flu pandemic killed 50-100 million and also belonged to the subtype A (H1N1.)

However, I can't jettison these thoughts or numbers from the
squirmy pathways of my
reptilian brain.

The Current strain of H1N1 (aka-swine flu) has killed 61 earthlings (3 Americans) so far,

while the seasonal influenza kills 200,000 - 500,000 people worldwide annually.

It leaves 36,000 Americans stone dead each year.

K? K.