What is worse, the fact that this flu-that-shall-remain-nameless-because-H1N1- is-a-ridiculous-name has become such a media frenzy, causing seemingly otherwise rational people to not want to leave their homes or if they must, to wear a surgical mask OR that the W.H.O. (who?) has gotten in on this flu-naming act and says no to swine and yes to H1N1? They could have at least made it into a acronym that can be easily pronounced by the mask wearers (mentioned above.) Like, high-nigh or perhaps high-nee. These are terrible suggestions of course, but what of the alternative?
My favorite highlight from yesterday, besides Joe Biden confessing he wants to tunnel down into a bunker until this flu clears, was also from The Today Show. Dr. Nancy Snyderman, the doctor who is on that show every day for so many segments a day, that it makes me wonder when she actually, well, treats patients? In an effort to show viewers that they cannot get the-virus-formerly-known-as-swine-flu from eating pork, she went up to a street vendor and ordered a gyro or some such pork sandwich. I don't know about you, but it is not the flu that I'm afraid of contracting when I dine at such establishments. Hopefully the street meat lobby did not hear that.
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