I have had it up to here with all the scare mongering about the bird 'flu.
Doesn'r anyone read the whole story? In three years there have been about 60 deaths attributed to bird flu. We are told that every one of them was caught directly from sick birds. Not one case has been passed from human to human. More people than that get killed by their spouse every day.
Anybody out there remember the swine 'flu scare from about 30 years ago? It was going to kill millions of people. It fizzled out.
The real story about the bird flu has to be that Donald rumsfeld stands to make millions out of it. Apparently the company which he is a major stockholder in holds the patent on Tamiflu. or whatever it's called, and the U.S. government has already bought two billion dollars worth of the worthless stuff. Even the manufacturers don't claim that it will prevent or cure the 'flu.
I guess Bush's War on Terror has started to lose steam so they have to come up with something else to get people all worried about. I suppose that we'll soon be hearing about the War on Chicken 'Flu, or maybe they'll just call it The Chicken War.
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