Day Five: What happened to the bird flu?
TV 5
What happened to the Bird Flu?
Do you ever notice that once the news shifts to a different, heavier topic- like war for instance- we are no longer going to die from the latest trendy disease? Where does it go? Isn’t it coming?! Should I buy a mask?
Perhaps I shouldn’t eat chicken. Wait, isn’t chicken bad for me anyway? Oh wait, no, that was last week, this week eggs are bad for me. But wait, eggs come from birds, well chickens, so perhaps my not eating eggs will help in my fight against the bird flu. Huh? News flash?!? What’s going on with Israel and Lebanon? Forget about the bird flu season, its terrorism time!!! Now I can spend my nights flipping between CNN, FOX, MSNBC, CNN HEADLINE NEWS, BBC, CNBC, BLOOMBERG, C-SPAN 2, C-Span, The Weather Channel, CNBC WORLD, & MY LOCAL NEWS, AWESOME!! AM I MISSING SOMETHING? Gee, I wonder if Iran will enter the equation somehow? August 22nd, perhaps? The weapons showdown with NATO?
After we are done with the middle east, another disease will come out and then onto Korea. I get to live in a state of fear for my entire life, yippee!! What a great way to live!!?
Wow, can you imagine if life was for the people and by the people? Wasn’t there a time when the people did the choosing?
What happened to SARS?
Wasn’t SARS coming to America?
That was last years disease before Iraq. This years disease is bird flu.
OH yeah and a bed bug epidemic, I forgot about that. I remember seeing a little bug in my cupboard, well, actually more than one little bug, quite a bunch of them in fact. Some kind of bug liked my choice of tea. It was the time of the bed bug problem so I thought I had bed bugs in my cupboard and would wake up with soars on my body like that lady who went to some hotel, somewhere, and then wound up on The Today show with sores all over her body. She was suing them but stayed at that same hotel again.
Where did all the mad cows go?
Oh, they are in decline. Read this from the Center for Consumer Freedom.
“If the recent news explosion about bird flu has taught us anything, it's that food scares abhor a vacuum. Now that the British government has declared the mad-cow scare has peaked and is in decline, the news media -- and animal rights groups -- are substituting one animal-disease panic for another. The predictable result can be found in a nationwide opinion survey that the Center for Consumer Freedom recently commissioned. Our polling data, released this morning, indicate that a whopping 47 percent of Americans believe the myth that they can contract bird flu by eating chicken.”
Man, guess I really shouldn’t eat chicken.
In conclusion:
Turns out, I didn’t get attacked by bed bugs. I put my tea in a plastic container and now, no more bugs. I didn’t get Sars & I doubt I will get the bird flu. When I was in Paris during the Mad Cow scare a table next to me ordered beef tartar, that is raw beef from cows. Apparently, they were not scared. Perhaps they wanted to commit suicide via crazy cow.
Guess what, if I do get the latest trendy disease I’ll deal with it then but why worry about it now?
Fact for the day:
“...between 1990 and 1998, when the nation’s murder rate declined by 20 percent, the number of murder stories on network newscasts increased 600 percent." said Barry Glassner in the book "The Culture Of Fear,"
Today:
1. Talked with family; brother, mother & father
2. called great aunt (90th birthday)
3. designed t-shirt
4. listened to cole song
5. ate dinner with guy
6. hurt foot, iced foot
7. tried exercising it.
8. did emails.
9. wrote blog
P.S. don't forget about the killer bees.
What happened to the Bird Flu?
Do you ever notice that once the news shifts to a different, heavier topic- like war for instance- we are no longer going to die from the latest trendy disease? Where does it go? Isn’t it coming?! Should I buy a mask?
Perhaps I shouldn’t eat chicken. Wait, isn’t chicken bad for me anyway? Oh wait, no, that was last week, this week eggs are bad for me. But wait, eggs come from birds, well chickens, so perhaps my not eating eggs will help in my fight against the bird flu. Huh? News flash?!? What’s going on with Israel and Lebanon? Forget about the bird flu season, its terrorism time!!! Now I can spend my nights flipping between CNN, FOX, MSNBC, CNN HEADLINE NEWS, BBC, CNBC, BLOOMBERG, C-SPAN 2, C-Span, The Weather Channel, CNBC WORLD, & MY LOCAL NEWS, AWESOME!! AM I MISSING SOMETHING? Gee, I wonder if Iran will enter the equation somehow? August 22nd, perhaps? The weapons showdown with NATO?
After we are done with the middle east, another disease will come out and then onto Korea. I get to live in a state of fear for my entire life, yippee!! What a great way to live!!?
Wow, can you imagine if life was for the people and by the people? Wasn’t there a time when the people did the choosing?
What happened to SARS?
Wasn’t SARS coming to America?
That was last years disease before Iraq. This years disease is bird flu.
OH yeah and a bed bug epidemic, I forgot about that. I remember seeing a little bug in my cupboard, well, actually more than one little bug, quite a bunch of them in fact. Some kind of bug liked my choice of tea. It was the time of the bed bug problem so I thought I had bed bugs in my cupboard and would wake up with soars on my body like that lady who went to some hotel, somewhere, and then wound up on The Today show with sores all over her body. She was suing them but stayed at that same hotel again.
Where did all the mad cows go?
Oh, they are in decline. Read this from the Center for Consumer Freedom.
“If the recent news explosion about bird flu has taught us anything, it's that food scares abhor a vacuum. Now that the British government has declared the mad-cow scare has peaked and is in decline, the news media -- and animal rights groups -- are substituting one animal-disease panic for another. The predictable result can be found in a nationwide opinion survey that the Center for Consumer Freedom recently commissioned. Our polling data, released this morning, indicate that a whopping 47 percent of Americans believe the myth that they can contract bird flu by eating chicken.”
Man, guess I really shouldn’t eat chicken.
In conclusion:
Turns out, I didn’t get attacked by bed bugs. I put my tea in a plastic container and now, no more bugs. I didn’t get Sars & I doubt I will get the bird flu. When I was in Paris during the Mad Cow scare a table next to me ordered beef tartar, that is raw beef from cows. Apparently, they were not scared. Perhaps they wanted to commit suicide via crazy cow.
Guess what, if I do get the latest trendy disease I’ll deal with it then but why worry about it now?
Fact for the day:
“...between 1990 and 1998, when the nation’s murder rate declined by 20 percent, the number of murder stories on network newscasts increased 600 percent." said Barry Glassner in the book "The Culture Of Fear,"
Today:
1. Talked with family; brother, mother & father
2. called great aunt (90th birthday)
3. designed t-shirt
4. listened to cole song
5. ate dinner with guy
6. hurt foot, iced foot
7. tried exercising it.
8. did emails.
9. wrote blog
P.S. don't forget about the killer bees.
posted by Haley at 10:07 PM
2 Comments:
OHHH...you can totally do this!!! I never watch tv. Well...not never, I watch Big brother, amazing race, and sometimes survivor. So, really, I do watch tv, but only those shows....
Im so uninterested in it. Wait, does no tv include no movies either??? That would be hard for me. I like movies.....
Besides, now you have time to do so many other things....
I do watch dvd's but haven't yet. Am trying not to watch movies for an entire month. But the tv is disconnected as of now.
Thanks for the comment!!
Haley...
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