I’m looking forward to picking up cheap pork for the freezer. It amazes and saddens me what this country has become. A ship of fools!!
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The selling of pork futures and related companies is probably well founded. Because people are stupid and the question here isn’t if pork safe to eat, but are people going to eat less and the answer is probably.
However, as mentioned, people are stupid. I know a couple – I swear to gawd – that threw out their bacon and still go to work with the flu. I would sure love our sensationalist media stop talking about the entire thing with that “an atomic bomb went off” tone, start saying with every news cast that you don’t get this from pigs but from other humans and remind people IN ALL CASES to be a bit rational about being sick.
My sister – manager in a corporation – told me that people expect to be paid if they are told to go home because they are sick.
What ever would happen if this thing, or any other virus, does become highly virulent. Nothing about the reporting or the reaction smacks of prudence or reasonableness.
No, and I don’t understand why people are so afraid to do so. They’ve said time and time again, that pork is fine, but countries are stil slaughtering all of them… I don’t understand the over reactions?
People are being ridiculous. I will keep eating pork, keep eating at Mexican restaurants, keep doing all the things I have been doing. I don’t want Swine Flu, or any other illness, so I use common sense. But really people, you are more likely to get into an auto accident than to get Swine Flu.
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More important and nearly unreported is — how did the strain emerge?
We should at least consider the possibility that intensive pork production could be a breeding ground for new diseases.
This explains the desire for a name change before we look behind the curtain.