The Swine Flu Joke

A family friend recently contracted a flu. He went for the Swine Flu examination. While he waited for the reports he took medication for normal flu and was soon fully fit. So he started attending college.

When the reports came out it turned out that he had suffered Swine Flu! The media somehow came to know about this and are now after his parents and him as to why he wasn't admitted to a hospital - that they might be responsible for spreading the flu and all that crap. And these idiots refuse to understand that he is perfectly fit now.

I read a statistic somewhere - that everyday 594 people die in India due to common flu whereas the total number of deaths due to Swine Flu till then had just reached double digits. Now, that says it all - the unnecessary panic, the attached wastage of time and resources, duping of common public by the hospitals and black-marketeers and of course, the misappropriation of funds meant for Swine Flu relief by you know whom...

And yeah for those people who are still wearing those surgical masks - a) That mask is ineffective for protection from Swine Flu - the size of the virus is so small that even the specially designed Swine flu masks used in the US are not effective, b) The mask is good for protection from dust and pollution, but if you are wearing it for protection from  a virus and stuff you must know that those masks have expiry times in minutes - around 15-20 minutes or so, so you need to buy a new bag for carrying those masks -- any entrepreneurs reading this have a business opportunity to exploit ;)