06 December 2005

If You are Bird Flu COO COO, I think I wanna slap You


Is anyone else getting sick hearing about the bird flu? I am, and I think people should know that the bird flu should be the least of your worries. However; if you are a chicken farmer in Asia that can't read English, then my advice would be to totally disregard this entire article. For everyone else, know that the bird flu ain't gonna be the end of us, not yet anyway.
OK the issue is not that the bird flu is not dangerous. In the last two years about 130 people have contracted the bird flu, and a little more than half died because of it. However, H5N1, the avian flu that everyone is so worried about rarely causes an infection in humans because it doesn't infect humans easily as it does birds. If you walk around and bob your head constantly you might have something serious to worry about and you will very likley get the bird flu the first time you come in contact with it.
In order for this virus to become a major threat to all of us non-bird chickens it needs to evolve or change so that it can easily spread from foul to Frank. So why is it then that the "Avian Flu" makes headlines all the time? Today it is carries the main attention on the FoxNews website. The picture made me kinda hungry but over all I was bored. In comparison, malaria kills over a million people a year and no one seems to give a crap at the major news media outlets.
Something else I would like to point out is that any dangerous virus could potentially "change" and become more dangerous than it already is. A whole bunch of people are pretty wound up about the bird flu though. I believe they are Coo Coo about the bird Flu, or they own stock in Tamiflu, one or the two. By the way if you think the bird flu is going to decimate the human population then you could make money by investing in Tamiflu because they stand to benefit bigtime from a bird flu outbreak, but I'm thinking that would be a dumb idea.
Anyways, I encourage people everywhere, including chicken farmers in Asia that can read English to enjoy a chicken sandwich, or maybe some soup. Feel free to respond and let me know how you feel after ingesting large amounts of chicken.
One last thing. I didn't link any info to sites that have real information about the bird flu, because I think you should find out the answers for yourself before you go buying into all the hype.
Oh yeah, and if for some reason you are one of the next 130 people, or if you believe for any reason that you have contracted the bird flu, stay the hell away from me. After all, I may not know what I am talking about, but I am not 100% stupid. Cluck.. Cluck.. Cluck..

In the words of Leeroy Jenkins, "At least I got chicken."