Swine Flu cont....

I was lucky enough to watch CNN in the student lounge area during my lunch hour just as the afternoon female anchor interviewed the secretary of agriculture about the Swine Flu(!!!!!). The whole 7 minute segment consisted of her asking questions about "Swine Flu" and him politely requesting that she refrain from that term and used "N1H1" or whatever the sequence is, as it sends the wrong message. Swine Flu is not a food born illness, which means it is perfectly safe to eat pork products. Being the political genius he is, the secretary let the public know he ate bacon for breakfast and pork for dinner last night. The dumb brunette kept talking about Swine Flu, and he kept trying to get her to understand that the term should not be used as it could have a negative effect on pig farmers in the US. Once the interview was over she turned to the camera (probably read off a teleprompter) and continued to use the term Swine Flu.

The request had clearly fallen on deaf ears as she could not break from "swine flu" when speaking with a Sr Medical Expert in the next segment. This expert was another woman who seemed to only truly grasp the difference between a vaccine and an anti-viral (one is a shot, the other is a pill - she got this on good authority from a trained medical professional). Also, I learned that there is not a vaccine for this flu strand, but there are two anti-virals that should work, theoretically.

If you are concerned about havin caught Swine Flu, you may want to visit the following site:
http://doihaveswineflu.org/

The last segment I had the pleasure of watching was about President Obama's "Swagga". Yes, the "r" was left off intentionally, this is how CNN put it up in their graphic. It was one of the more ridiculous news segments I have seen. But, because of it, I learned that the African-American culture invented hugging, believe in inclusion and are extremely social - which is why Obama is so different from our previous white presidents. In fact, I learned that Bush went to bed by 10 pm on the night of his inauguration but Obama was up till 3 in the morning. Please tell me, how is this news?

I sadly had to miss the three hour block of grading our current president on his first 100 days as I was at trivia tonight. We probably came in 4th as we did not make top three, 1st place was 118 and we ended with 114.

Side note: My mother works at a middle school. The high school in her district has been closed for two days because one of the students went to Mexico recently and he is now sick. No lie.