Swine Flu? The best IQ test ever!
Hi folks,
I am sick….sick of the swine flu. I have never seen so much hype over something so stupid. Here is the headline I read today “More than 1,000 worldwide are sickened.”
Here is why that is so stupid….30,000 a year die from regular every day flu. Most people now identified with Swine Flu are already over it.
Let’s compare….
122 people a day die in the US from car accidents.
53 a day drinking booze
14 are work related
Total deaths from Swine Flu in the us so far….1…..and that was a visitor from Mexico.
Last week we were as Sea World in Orlando. Kim sneezed from something and a woman took 3 steps backwards. This is how stupid we have become. One sneeze in the springtime and panic is teh response.
So before you run out and get you mask like the rest of the idiots… Stop drinking, working or driving a car FIRST! Then you might not look so stupid.
Here is the scary part. While you are being distracted by the Swine Flu…..what else is going on that you are not paying attention to?
Here is some advice I have. If you own a business and someone shows up with a mask on….fire them. They are too dumb to work for you. They have no common sense. In a way this is an QI test for your company. Now you can visibly see how many people are faling that test. Take notes.
I know this is going to offend some of you. You are going to tell me that I am insensitive beause people are dying. I am picking on people who are just being careful. Maybe you believe all the hype. I believe that common sense has become so rare that it might be in danger of extinction.
The excuses have already begun. “Even if the swine virus doesn’t prove as potent as authorities first feared, that doesn’t mean the U.S. and World Health Organization overreacted in racing to prevent a pandemic, or worldwide spread, of a virus never before seen.”
Uh….yes it does. All these ‘experts’ are going to have egg on their face and now they are trying to justify scaring the crap out of your for no good reason.
What is the best thing you can do?…..The same thing you do every flu season. Get an injection of common sense.
Tom
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i always advice my kids to wear face masks when going into crowded areas. swine flu is really scary and i dont want my kids getting infected by it.
To bad for your kids. I read an article a while back that makes a point that the overly sterile environment that paranoid parents create for their children actually hurts the immune system by not allow it to build up immunities. SO the kids grow up fragile and susceptible to more disease…not less.
but u should take care or u will die from the swine flu , then r u still alive ??
thats goood , people say u could die cause of swine flu!!!
wooooow
122 people a day die in the US from car accidents.
Should I not drive either?
Stupid people get alarmed because they don’t think. They FEEL.
Tom
Tom,
If Kim snezzes again better get some oinkment
Dave.
So there I was in the doctor’s surgery today. And determined to give them an opening line a little different from everyone else when they asked me what they could do to help I came out with “I have swine flu”. The look of shock on the woman’s face was utterly priceless and the lack of words she could then find equally added to the situaton. However once she’d relaxed a bit she attempted to give me a dressing down about how that was innapropriate. I thought it was funny and showed how people are too invested in it.
Shockingly I repeated my joke to the nurse/doctor and she told me how they usually put out a bottle of hand sanitizer at reception, and it had seen way more use than it normally does since this swine flu “outbreak”.
Speaking derogatorily against anyone is a form of stupidity…
If someone chooses to wear a to wear a face mask so as to be able to lip sync ‘F#@& You’, perhaps their sophistication bamboozled you.
We supposedly subscribe to a concept of freedom, specifically Freedom of Expression, ipse ergo, one is perfectly justified to present themselves as a symbolic example of cautious awareness. You are dismayed by the over-reaction by media response to the swine flu scare, and you respond by recommending a hateful perception of those who make themselves a visible representation of the results of political/economic tomfoolerly.
Personally from day one, I recognized the swine-flu hoopla as a convenient distraction from the REAL financial and economic crisis the world is facing, but also I personally am not bold enough to make a spectacle of myself, although it would be a nice way to be able to constantly overtly smirk.
Your business deals with improving mental processes.
Get a little love in your heart.
Forever Loving,
Peter
Now it is derogatory to point out stupidity? WHY? Once this world degenerates to the point that we have to accept stupidity then we are all screwed. Yes we have freedom of expression. We also have the freedom to point out the stupid people. You HAVE to point them out or you will not be able to tell the difference between stupid people and those you want to count on.
As for me, my mission is pointing out stupidity wherever we can find it.
I want the smart doctor.
I want the smart financial adviser.
I want smart people working for me.
I want the smartest in anything I want done.
If you want the dumbest doctor cutting you open then that is your choice. If not then you need someone to point out that it is the dumbest doctor and you might want to get another opinion.
Take care
Tom
Andrew,
I have implied nothing. You just don’t seem to be able to read.
I have never said that the swine flu is made up. What I have said is that the threat has been over exaggerated. Of the people who have died, most live in Mexico. They never received treatment.
In Mexico all they had to do was practice just a few easy things like drinking clean water and some simple sanitary measures and guess what…..The flu is declining.
Here is the real thing you keep ignoring. How many people that have gotten the flu and gotten any treatment have died? As far as I know…not one.
For this easily treatable flu we have people running around terrified of anyone who sneezes.
It is stupid. The people in masks are stupid. They just follow along and never ask questions. The masks are a visible sign of how stupid they are.
Yes the sky is falling. A meteor will kill us all. A super volcano will wipe out the planet. Now we have people running in circles screaming pandemic and tossing around the 1918 pandemic as proof. Uhh..In 1918 we didn’t even have penicillin.
The regular flu is uncontrolled. Is it a pandemic? No.
So we have a treatable flu that has everyone scared and the dumbest of us wearing designer masks.
I stand by my original opinion. If you own a business and one of your employees shows up in a mask…find a reason to get rid of them. They are too stupid for whatever job you hired them for.
Tom
Run around terrified if you want to.
Just for the record, so it’s summed up here rather than ferreted away elsewhere:
The problem I have with this post is that, particularly in the first couple of lines, it really implies that swine flu is a media-invented scare story like wifi or MMR or whatever. It’s not. It’s not pandemic (at the moment) and it’s not a serious disease, but there’s a chance that uncontrolled spread of it could be disastrous, and you shouldn’t dismiss it completely just because it hasn’t killed many people yet. That was never the issue. The issue was that it was (and still is) a potential threat, and it would be foolish to wait for these things to turn pandemic before trying to combat them.
By all means ridicule the ludicrous masks people appear to be wearing, but don’t in so doing dismiss swine flu as a made-up threat — not least because it detracts from your more valid point about overblown panic. And don’t dismiss the people as stupid, because it looks (and is) arrogant and condescending, and it blinds you to a far more interesting and important problem, namely the reasons they think what they do.
You mean someone was so stupid that the nest they could do was make fun of a typo?
Bet they were wearing a mask!
Tom
Looking at what might be going on elsewhere is one strategy, looking at who could be making money from all the attention is another. The Swine Flu ‘pandemic’ scare will die down as soon as companies realize that people won’t be lining up in droves to buy the newest immunizations, and they won’t be getting nifty grants and tax breaks to develop them.
Don’t get me started on the politics and economics behind AIDS research, and plenty of others. As Chris Rock said, ‘The money’s in the MEDICINE, not in the cure…’
In near total agreement with you, however, before you post your attack on stupid people, you might want to proofread. I found this post because someone on Twitter was making fun of you not being able to spell “IQ”.
Ultimately, I think we’re all stupid in different ways and blaming people for reacting to what the news tells them is likely a mistake (and firing them certainly is). The way to handle this, in my opinion, is to just point out how wrong the media is for calling this a “worldwide” anything. Fewer people have Swine Flu than died in the 911 attacks. So, I think you’re right to cite statistics, but if you think this is the only way the media has let us down, you’re complaining about the tip of the iceberg (you’re probably aware of this). We need to get the point across to folks that the media is not trustworthy on any topic beyond breaking news (and even then, they’re iffy).
Once average people understand that the media gets most things wrong, they’ll begin to realize that they need to think for themselves. Only then will we be immune to this kind of fear-mongering. It’s not like this is the first thing to irrationally scare the crap out of us, right? Before swine flu, there was bird flu and anthrax, and along the way there was Iraqi WMD and Al Qaeda. In the great scheme of things, all five of those “threats” were nothing of the kind and many of us knew it at the time.
So, good post. Just make sure to check for those typos.
Sorry to post such a long comment.
No, it doesn’t.
If the WHO and US take massive precautions to prevent a pandemic and they work then there will be no pandemic and people will wrongly say it was an over-reaction. If they do nothing until it becomes pandemic they look (and are) slow to respond.
Tom:
“Even if the swine virus doesn’t prove as potent as authorities first feared, that doesn’t mean the U.S. and World Health Organization overreacted in racing to prevent a pandemic, or worldwide spread, of a virus never before seen.”
You could insert “AIDS” for “swine virus” here. Remember how AIDS was going to go through the heterosexual population? Well, that’s what was said in the 80s.
And I have a feeling “global warming” can be inserted for “swine virus” too. As that great philosopher George Carlin once said, “The planet isn’t going anywhere–WE ARE!”
what she sneezed and you havent quarantined her yet!
Since I have a flu these days, I figured I might have some fun with it and everywhere I go , I ask people how there doing and then when they ask me back I say I think I have the swine flu. Some of them laugh, some of them back away, some of them look around if others heard it too, its too funny to watch.
The real funny thing is that I used to be one of those paranoid dudes and now I just dont care. I cant control every fucking thing so screw it.
Oh my God! Kim sneezed? Is she okay? Kim dear, how are you doing? Get better soon! LOL
Thank you Tom, truth is funnier than fiction, but unfortunately, so sad.
Love you guys,
Rob