Isn't it time a Pig Flu?

4/27/09 - 2nd Day - Mid-Afternoon. Nothing gets a mind off the failing economy like a good mutant-zombie pig virus. Apparently, some strange concoction being called H1N1 Swine Flu is teleporting around the world and scaring the bejebus out of everyone who has to be in a room with people they do not know (Funny practical joke... Go into the nearest clinic or city council meeting with a T-Shirt on that says "I HEART MY PIG", then start coughing repeatedly and wheezing).

The problem is that the economy, already in full collapse with only the hologram of recovery teasing those who cannot wait to get back to a frenzied debt-based buying spree, most likely will not be able to survive the shock of millions of paralyzed global citizens staying home and watching Dancing with the Stars instead of heading to the already empty mall to buy that Mexican blanket for the divan. But, then again, maybe that's what TPTB (The Powers That Be) had in mind. Now, who is going to mind being scanned for heat while entering the Wal-Mart, when you already have to submit to being X-Ray'd naked to get on an airplane? Nice opportunity to throw up roadblocks and to quarantine large areas of the country as well. Now, it is possible that this is all just another paranoid bunch of nothingness, or it could be just another dry run for the CDC and Homeland Security (which is more likely). It also gives Homeland director Janet Napolitano something else to do rather than traveling around apologizing to veterans for claiming that they are all a bunch of right-wing survivalists intent on the overthrow of statist government (if only they were). Actually, this pig flu gives a lot of cover and diverts attention to a whole load of nonsense that has been in the news.

Now, some of you may be worried about the swine flu, and frankly I don't know if you should be worried or not. I don't get out much, even if I am closer to Mexico than most of you. In my opinion, and I am not a doctor, people are generally susceptible to the flu because they spend all of their time cooped up inside away from the sun. Most people are suffering from a shortage of Vitamin D in their body from the lack of sunlight, and because their immune systems are basically shot from all the dead food, chemical additives, and other junk they consume. They also live in a perpetually 72 degree artificial womb that basically makes them unviable creatures if anything goes wrong with the support system that surrounds them. To me, the answer is - get out in the sun, or get some Vitamin D into yourself. Get some exercise and start eating some food that is actually still alive (meaning that it has live enzymes in it).

It is very likely that our whole world system is going to be in a massive freefall in the very near future, so it would seem that the pig flu is the least of our worries, but there have been times in history when a bug like this has wiped out a whole lot of people. The great flu pandemic at the end of WWI (at the height of the expansion of industrialism, and as millions of soldiers were returning home) killed about 675,000 people in the United States and between 20 to 50 million people around the world. Estimates by the FedGov in the past have assumed that over 100 million and maybe as many as 300 million could be killed in the next global pandemic, and it is possible (if not likely) that this Pig Flu could be that pandemic. Adding to the problem is that the number one suggestion given by all flu specialists to limit your likelihood of getting the flu is to LIMIT CONTACT WITH OTHER PEOPLE. This means that, just when the government is trying to portray the economy as "in the beginnings of a great recovery", the smart people are going to be staying home and not spending (or touching) any money. Nice.

Maybe this pig flu will mean nothing at all. Maybe it is just another in a long line of stories designed to cause everyone in the world to operate by fear. Government today is the ultimate purveyor of fear, and the media are the voicebox of the fear-based worldview. Necessity is the big stick carried by every tyrant in history, and maybe the pig flu is just another means for those in power to institute new rules and draconian laws because of necessity.

And maybe, instead of being the beginnings of a huge global pandemic that will kill millions of people, H1N1 Swine Flu will really just be the reason that a ton of homely and lonely guys get dates, after all, how many of them out there were promised dates if pigs ever flu?

Your servant in Christ Jesus,

Michael Bunker