Coincidence?

Strangely, the authors of swinefluconspiracy.com were stricken with severe pneumonia only a week after having launched this blog. Black helicopters, anyone?

And it's over

It's a good sign when STRATFOR is conducting a post-mortem.

‘Pandemic,’ not ‘Duck and Cover’

To the medical mind, the word “pandemic” denotes a disease occurring over a wide geographic area and affecting an exceptionally high proportion of the population. The term in no way addresses the underlying seriousness of the disease in the sense of its wider impact on society. The problem is that most people are not physicians. When the WHO convenes a press conference carried by every network in the world, the declaration of a level 5 pandemic connotes global calamity, even as statements
from experts — and governments around the world — attempt to walk the line
between calming public fears and preparing for the worst...

...But as the days wore on last week, the swine flu began to look like little more than ordinary flu. Toward the end of the week, a startling fact began to emerge: While there were more than a hundred deaths in Mexico suspected of being caused by the new strain, only about 20 (a number that has increased slightly after being revised downward earlier last week) have been confirmed as being linked to the new virus. And there has not been a single death from the disease reported anywhere else in the world, save that of a Mexican child transported to the United States for better care.

Why pay for a newspaper when all this legit journalism is free?

Disinfo.com must pay its correspondents and fact checkers handsomely. How else could they have gotten the video scoop on the guy in the Cosby sweater who knows far too much...and then provide zero commentary or color. It's like aggregating a bunch of useless hearsay and just reorganizing it on a bl- wait, not that there's anything wrong with that.

Dr. Leonard Horowitz makes a case for a vaccine manufacturer letting loose a
genetically modified bug to get what they need to move forward and increase
demand for their vaccines.

We think it was the Foster Farms chickens' idea

Don't piss off the National Pork Board. They'll, uh, root you out and go, um, hog wild on your ass. The other white meat indeed:

"The avalanche of news stories and Web chatter referencing
"swine flu" has rankled the image-conscious National Pork Board. Several days
after assuring consumers that they could not contract "swine influenza" from
eating pork, the industry group -- perhaps best known for its "other white meat"
image campaign -- declared that the outbreak should now be called by its
scientific name, "Flu H1N1."

If you're reading this, NPB, please don't cancel our bacon of the month club subscription.

Beck's Swine Flu Theory - The Daily Beast

Glenn Beck thinks Obama is trying to pull a fast one by using the swine flu as a distraction to rush Kathleen Sebelius' confirmation as health and human services secretary.

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We're all for taking advantage of pandemics, but...

...appealing to the panic instinct in the undereducated and superstitious amongst us just gives us that flu-like feeling in our stomach:

"Global Autoclave Compliance has started selling a "Swine Flu Protection Kit" for $19, which includes masks, gloves and sanitizers. Argenus Air Sterilizer, part of Hunter Fan, is marketing its air purifier in search ads with the headline "Kill Deadly Viruses Like Swine Flu," she writes. And Safety Videos Now is selling a "Swine Flu Safety" DVD for $47." MORE

Blogs are the only reliable source of medical information

Top 10 Swine Flu Conspiracy theories from the Retard Zone, whose team of scientists, doctors, researchers and janitorial staff have come up with the 10 most likely sources for the virus.

A very very scientific abstract from Global Dashboard - Evidence: ”In all U.S. cases, the victims had no contact with any pigs.” Implication: Pigs are evil… er they caught it from other people… er pigs never had anything to do with it.

And we can't keep a straight face linking to this guy, who is truly and dangerously disturbed.