Trooper Thompson quotes an hypothesis expressed in Australia that the ’swine flu pandemic’ is the result of a laboratory escape.
I have heard far less charitable views than this expressed recently. Among them was the assertion that the whole undertaking is entirely artificial, and will be combined with a highly visual medical-scare campaign over the summer, involving the likes of the Red Cross and St. John Ambulance being required to wear Noddy suits and respirators while attending public events, to provide the justification for activation of an existing legal provision to ban all public gatherings in excess of a given number (to be whittled down steadily from an initial 500).
Of course trains often contain more people than this; apparently reducing trains in either size or availability (indeed, a marked reduction in public transport generally) will form only a part of the medical theatre shortly to be performed.
There was a further allegation involving highly technical aspects of virology which I am not qualified to judge but of which the upshot was that the first virus wasn’t nearly scarey enough so someone had to cook up another, quickly, and someone else had to claim, apparently quite implausibly, that it had ‘evolved’ from the first one.
The first allegation, at least, is easily tested; if during the next couple of months we observe medical staff at public events being dressed up as characters from dystopian 1970s television shows about biological warfare then it will seem likely that the rest of it might also be true.
One might speculate that if the public are adequately terrorised by this they may well consent to further ‘medical requirements’, such as curfews, internal passports, arbitrary arrest and isolation, injected RFID tags, and so forth, that they are so ungrateful as to be reluctant to be stampeded into accepting by ‘terrorists’.
“..if during the next couple of months we observe medical staff at public events being dressed up as characters from dystopian 1970s television shows about biological warfare ..”
Nicely timed to coincide with series 2 of ‘Survivors’, perhaps? ;)
I have also heard that the whole thing was engineered by Big Pharma because the huge stock of antivirals laid in for the LAST panic scare (Bird Flu, or was it SARS?) have now expired, so they can sell us another lot.
I think that’s as least as likely as any other conspiracy theory.
But actually I favour Napoleon’s dictum “Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence”.
They’re just idiots, really.
Bodwyn Wook argues persuasively in his online pp I think against this idea of “conspiracy.” “Come to that, it IS wishful thinking, we really do just wish to Christ though that SOME human beings somewhere were actually up to the mark, some of the time anyway.
Alas, vanity, even projected vanity….
What there is of course universally (!) is a lot of stupid “clever” plotting all over, mostly gangs and relays of (here it comes, gang, you guessed it!) assholes, big, serendipitous, yawning open ones, reeking of farts, State Liberal Pronouncements and “synchronicity.”
More often these buttheads are in collision than collusion, which is still OUR great hope, that the “brain geniuses” (Mr Judson Andersen, farmer, Squawbunion County, MN, b 1919) will collide their Pandas in hot pursuit, and WE can all laugh like Hell on the broad grin on our way into the liquor store on the spree, and “to Hell with the rotten God-damned Big Government communist pricks!” (Mr Judson Andersen, farmer, Squawbunion County, MN, b 1919)
Be that as it may then, I agree with LUC, there are probably at least some “dumb bastards” (Mr Judson Andersen, farmer, Squawbunion County, MN, b 1919) trying to cash in on when the janitor (“Down Under?”) busted the Petri dish.
(If so, being Australian — sor-ry, sor-ry, I didn’t write the rules! — he was probably twitchy after break and an Abby Winters porno session online, the sodding introvert….)
“They” (The Liberals I mean, and not the janitors) think this Swine Flu comedy and false alarm by Don Rumsfeld to sell his Tamiflu is, likewise, their big chance to cement their professional indispensability, with arcane and silly requirements such as outlined by LUC, above.
This doesn’t mean a bullshitter any less than an actual bull isn’t dangerous, but we who “for Christ sakes” (Mr Judson Andersen, farmer, Squawbunion County, MN, b 1919) have a little Greek and Latin and some math under our belts ought to be able “God damn it” (Mr Judson Andersen, farmer, Squawbunion County, MN, b 1919) in the end to stay out of the paddock and instead watch these other fools getting THEIR asses chased by these liberal “educated fools.” (Mr Judson Andersen, farmer, Squawbunion County, MN, b 1919)
As I say, the allegation is easily tested; I wouldn’t be surprised at all if it were true.
Well sure, I CARRIED a face mask here in my hand for a couple of days and ostentatiously held it up in front of my trap whenever The Girl would hand me my change. Got lots of laughs too, except MDPIC was sort of POed, “embarrassed” she said….
That was in the Wells, MN, grocery store and at Home Depot in Mankato, “The Househusband’s Friend ” (not!)
No cathedrals in THIS Wells, but some awfully big grain bins by the railroad.
Occam’s Razor suggests it’s a real flu outbreak, and may be slightly different from the previous 5,000 or so as they all are. The Razor also suggests that the majority of deaths will be in places such as Mexico which consists of 200-odd million people, mostly undernourished, with poor medical facilites except for the politicians and richpeople and holidaymakers in Cancun, and the rest walking about in warm pigshit, which is regarded as a blessing as it means you are near a possibly edible pig.
I have bet a student, firghtened to death by her “science” teachers, £10 that nobody here will die of it. i am wininng so far.
Not a razor at all, D2…I taped the mask to a chopstick, sort of like a lorgnette. /You/ should let yourself be seen parading in the high street with such a contraption, it’d be interesting to watch the reactions on the dickensian and sallow, pinched and rat-like, malnourished, countenances of & /cet/. The little green onions are finally just starting in my kitchen garden and, also, I expect my Rouen hens will bring in a fine load of ducklings along about 1 June, so all is well in my horridly bucolic little whoredom anyhoo, Wook
I forgot to add that, as a first approximation (rough) 100% of Mexicans want to be Americans.
That’s fine, yo hablo and all that, just keep ‘em off of Wook’s duck flock or the fur (feathers?) will fly….
The way to get ducks to set successfully around here is on 1 May go around the yard and bust up all the nests, bury any eggs laid before I mean, and if necessary prop up the odd slab of plywood for shade along the shed or barn foundation where the old ducks have already decided to nest. The ducks by now are in the full reek of reproductive copulation, the eggs laid now are all fertile (unless you forgot and et the drake for Easter!), and the moms’ll all bring in a nice setting of five to eight babies each, all in a go. Meanwhile (now!) set up the run so you can catch the Little Bastards on those first June mornings and pop ‘em behind the wire, before Sammy Skunk & Timmy Fox get ‘em.
In fact you have to about have an Airedale (Bette) or Border Collie-Blue Heeler mix (Lady) to make this work and keep off the varmints during the setting. But, it sure as Hell beats playing ’silly bastards” and F-ck All! with incubators. I taught these tricks to Wook and saved him pissing away 300 dollars on an incubatior back in ‘81. Gratitude? Like Hell. The other thing is you don’t have to set eggs under banty hens, who’ll never EVER let you round up the ducklings they’ve hatched! But it also beats eating those scrawny marsh ducks in the Fall all smelling of fish shit and stringy like, plus full of shot — MY ducks get fed shell corn every day of their little, fat, Lutheran, waddling pre-diabetic lives!
By August already they look a flock of Norwich puddlejumper farmers at a Punch Horse fair!