Monday, May 4, 2009

Mexican Piggy Flu

SHOULD I BE SCARED THAT THE MEXICAN PIGGY FLU WILL ATTACK ME?

People are definitely overreacting when it comes to the swine flu. When I first found out about it, I immediately felt sick and thought that I was sick for sure. Of course, I was fine and the symptoms I experienced were caused by paranoia. When I got back from vacationing in Fireisland, there was a paper taped up on the elevator wall. It was a cut and paste of the online news saying that seven children who go to the school located on my block had gone home with a fever. That made me go into super panic mode and even though it was said that the children did NOT have the swine flu, I refused to leave me house for another four days.
Why are people so scared? It's just a flu, right? Well, yes it is... but this flu is different than any other flu the US has seen. It is a mix of human flu and animal flu. And because viruses are always changing, what makes this dangerous is that the cure we have now might not work as the virus continues to change. Who knows what will happen or how serious it could get...
As far as I know, there is no need to panic, and trust me I found that out the hard way after spending four days without sunlight, only eating instant noodles, granola and canned vegetables. It seems that the Mexican government allowing museums and libraries to reopen is proof that it DOES get better and things WILL be back to normal eventually. 


IS THIS FLU A BIOLOGICAL WEAPON? IS THIS A GOVERNMENT CONSPIRACY? 
No! No! No! You are very misinformed. The government is not trying to attack its own people. Trust me. If the government created this flu to wipe out a bunch of people, then why would they create a virus that is NOT deadly? Yes, people have died... but people die from everything, from cancer to stress to the flu to.. lots of other diseases. If they wanted to create a biological weapon to destroy people, why not create the new HIV rather than a new flu?

GENE SPLICING?  

The swine flu is a mix of flus because pigs can catch the flu from humans AND other animals. So what happens is a pig catches a flu from an other animal, then since humans CAN catch the flu from pigs, the mixed flu is transferred to humans. There is no gene splicing involved here. Just a bunch of pigs getting sick a whole bunch of times to make the flu we know as swine flu or H1N1 virus and then giving it to humans. 


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