I got an email from an organization called Avaaz and of course it concerned the swine flu, and they asked me to sign a petition that they would send to the UN. They claim that if the UN control the pig farms to stay clean etc. it will protect the global health. This made me think. First of all, there has been so much about it in media the past two weeks so it feels like they’re exaggerating. And come on, over 15 million hits at Google already!
Perhaps it will spread the same way as HIV/AIDS, I mean, be a large disease in poorer countries and remain like a regular flu in the Western world. I have to say that I am a bit curious about the possible swine flu case here in Stockholm, will people go around with operating masks in the city center? I’m sorry, but I can’t see that coming. Swedes are too stubborn for that! Think about it, we never believe that something is really serious until it hits us. And how careless aren’t we sometimes? Our society is rather safe, perhaps we are too used to that as we sometimes kind of live in a bubble. What happens across the world does not affect us. Mostly.
The Swine flu has affected us differently, even though no one yet has confirmed being a carrier of the virus we panic. I read in the paper that people bought Tamiflu (antiviral) in masses, and this medicine is rarely sold out, and the operation masks are on the way to run out of store. What do you think, what are we waiting for? Could the Swine flu be a recurrence of the Spanish flu?
P.S have some comments on the “Free Dawit Isaak” campaign so I’ll be back later 
