If These F-ing Hippies Would Have Gotten The Swine Flu Shot in The 70's Maybe We Wouldn't Be In This Mess

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If These F-ing Hippies Would Have Gotten The Swine Flu Shot in The 70's Maybe We Wouldn't Be In This Mess

Posted by Emily Farris

We're starting to believe that this swine flu business is really just a giant hoax created by the media to save media jobs. And if that's true, well, we can't really blame anyone. But if it turns out to be a real threat, we have only our parents to blame. The pig virus reared its ugly pink snout back in the seventies, and if those damn hippies would have just taken the time to eradicate it with a simple vaccine, maybe we wouldn't have crazies running around New York in masks and schools closing in Texas. But no, they were too busy making free love and taking magic mushrooms. Now we're all going to die. Thanks, you f-ing hippies, for not being scared enough by this 1976 swine flu PSA.

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Posted Apr 30 2009, 11:01 AM

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Comments

profrobert said:

I know you're just going for the laugh here, but just in case someone's thinking otherwise: The 1976 strain and the 2009 strain are different. The 2099 one is more closely related to the 1918 flu strain (H1N1). Because it is a new strain, no one is really sure how virulent it is. (New flu strains pop up all the time -- that's why the flu is so resilient and why new flu shots are needed all the time.)

Moreover, the 1976 swine flu outbreak was mostly limited to soldiers at Fort Dix, New Jersey. President Ford, running for reelection and wanting to appear presidential, turned a relatively small outbreak into a national scare. The vaccination program was a disaster -- a number of people developed Guillain-Barre Syndrome from the shots, and the vaccine killed more people than the flu.

April 30, 2009 12:20 PM

mwilk8mk said:

Or we could just place the blame where it belongs--Smithfields Factory Farm that is US based and operates a plant in Mexico, where locals had been complaining for a long time that the toxins from pig waste were wreaking havoc. How about that?

May 1, 2009 10:37 PM

About Emily Farris

Emily Farris writes about culture and food for numerous publications and websites you've probably never heard of, including her own blog eefers. Her first cookbook, "Casserole Crazy: Hot Stuff for Your Oven" was published in 2008. Emily recently escaped New York and now lives in a ridiculously large apartment in Kansas City, MO with her cat, but just one... so far.