waxing blogosophical
Besides the fact that I couldn’t help but laugh at the sexually misleading title of Mint.com’s new infographic on H1N1, I did find it very informative.
My favorite graphic is this one:
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WGB asked this important health question today and also posted the image to the left. I have gotten a flu shot for various reasons every year for the last seven or eight years. This year, the media’s fanning the flames of paranoia have made me less inclined to rush right out and get a shot for fear of untimely demise. I’m getting pissed off by the absurdity of the fear-mongering. Have we forgotten our lesson? A society kept living in fear is more easily controlled. We need to stop being afraid and just be healthy and safe.
That being said, after I saw this hottie getting his flu shot, I am reconsidering. If this dude jumped off a cliff, I would too… with the hope that we would both survive the fall and then do naughty things when we landed.
Lene’s nephew Daniel stars in this new Swine Flu PSA. He’s the one in the pig mask. I told Lene he would’ve fit right in at the Folsom Street Fair.
Oh, and the one in the red shirt is a total college hottie.
Saw this on Rachel Maddow’s Twitter feed (@Maddow). Her choice for a new icon for Swine flu. LOL!
via CuteOverload
“90 people get the swine flu and everybody wants to wear a mask. A million people have AIDS and no one wants to wear a condom.”
via m,appeal
It was once said that a black man would be president “when pigs fly”. Indeed 100 days into Obama’s presidency: Airborne Piggies (aka Swine flu). (via @djg2theworld and @BrentDPayne on Twitter)
Christopher Booker at the UK’s Daily Mail has a great piece on the Pandemic of Panic. His opinion and mine aligned almost perfectly:
Again and again we have seen this pattern repeating itself, from Sars and dioxins to the confusion between different types of asbestos, costing literally hundreds of billions of dollars in law suits alone.
The one lesson which comes out from them all, loud and clear, is that our modern world has become far too prone to getting these supposed threats out of all proportion.
Of course we should expect our governments to be watchful and prepared to meet any genuine threat to our health and well-being. But as history painfully shows, we have become far too quick to overreact to dangers which too often turn out either to have been wildly exaggerated or never to have existed at all.
Too many people seem to have a vested interest in talking up these panics beyond what the evidence can support, from scientists dependent on promoting scares for their funding to politicians who recklessly use scares to show their concern for our welfare. We in the media, it is only fair to add, are far from blameless in this respect.
What this latest panic should be telling us, in short, is that we should learn to be much more careful not to talk up scares beyond what the evidence is there to support. Stick to the facts, keep everything in proportion and don’t give way to speculations which, a year or two later, may make us look very silly indeed.
Has anyone seen V for Vendetta? Notice any similarities!?
