A Bird in the Hand is Worth Flu in the Bush
All we hear about these days is Bird Flu. Ok, it's not all we hear about at all, mostly we hear about yet another bad nomination by Bush, but it's up there. It's the latest disease apparently stamped 'Made In China' that is making Western lips quiver at the word 'pandemic'. 'Epidemic' is no longer sufficient to scare people, it has to be a 'pandemic' or nobody would listen. there is talk of militarily imposing quarantines on affected regions (which means the poor, black or hispanic areas, no doubt). Sixty people dead in Asia, the news says alarmingly. Sixty out of how many billion? It's not like it happened last week or something. More people are dying of AIDS, cholera, flipping just being poor, but we haven't been panicking. Nobody talks about a pandemic of 'poverty'. But we love to blame the Chinese for giving us a scare, don't we. Remember SARS? Wasn't that going to mutate and wipe out humanity? We're still here, with our tanks and our guns and our SUVs, doing a great job of it on our own thank you.
So, Bird flu - we have a problem, but I have come up with a solution. Everyone's going to get flu, right? and millions of chickens will have to be slaughtered, right? So let's make a huge stockpile of CHICKEN SOUP! Never mind hoarding millions of dollars worth of medicine which may or may not work. Just follow the old Jewish housewives' example. Nothing better than chicken soup when you've got the flu.
I made a big pot last week, just to be on the safe side. And if the pandemic strikes, and looters loot, then I'll be ready with my ladel and my pepper-pots.
4.11.05 19:42
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