….with a stroll down memory lane. Here are a couple of swine flu PSAs from 1976:
Thank you, Blog of Boris, and Slog tipper Mary. Now go Purell your hands.
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If Mormons caused swine flu, this blog would be filled with posts condemning their actions. Why no posts condemning the actions of meat eaters who caused swine flu and all other modern pandemic flus?
NO. Not Purell!
Go wash your hands with soap and warm water. That works the best.
Soap and water.
Nobody remembers, but that was a great year for disaster RPGs.
Panic! Panic! Panic!
… or you could just wash your hands with hot water and soap (NOT anti-bacterial) and mellow out.
The second one is especially funny if you imagine that swine flu is an STD. Ha!
Health and Human Services Dept. says hand sanitizers are just as effective as soap.
Best to use one or the other than nothing at all though
Oh My GOD all those heteros passing pathogens and all they do is Kiss, touch door knobs, use toilette seats, shake hands, and talk with one another! What a disgusting life style.
Get out your pitchforks and clubs, the pigs started it!!! Should we just kill them all first or go ahead eat them? Hey Ma, start up the BBQ, we’re having a Luau!
Kissing is actually less risky than shaking hands for flu transmission, fwiw.
Kiss more.
The paranoid will take over the world.
@5 – HHS is wrong. Many studies show that it’s better to use it than NOT WASH YOUR HANDS AT ALL, but it’s still a higher risk factor.
Or you could douse them with alcohol and set it on fire (only use pure alcohol for this trick and only if you know how to do it).
Lisa: Hey, if a boar can survive here, there must be a source of food! Look he’s licking slime off that rock. That’s what he’s been eating –slime! And there’s enough slime for all of us! We’re saved!
[Cut to the kids roasting the boar over a fire, and eating parts of it.]
Nelson: Mmm, all that slime made the boar extra tender!
Martin: More snout anyone?
Bart: How’s your dinner, Lis!
[Lisa is licking slime from a rock.]
Lisa: Ah, shut up… savages…
@1 Maybe because swine flu isn’t a civil rights issue?
Who knew Count Chocula like to golf?
Being able to live without being murdered by a pandemic caused by the selfish acts of meat eaters is a civil rights issue, yes. If Mormons were creating swine flu through a horrific destructive ritual they would be condemned until they were eliminated. Meat eaters ARE causing pandemics through their horrific destructive unnecessary rituals and they must be condemned until extinction as well.
PS They are also the #1 cause of global warming, preventable disease, rain forest destruction, etc.
@14 – as a vegetarian, I’ll say this: you’re an idiot.
Hmm, on one of the national news programs last night they had a story about this. The anchor was all, “Gerald Ford over reacted to the threat of swine flu. Huge vaccination drives were implemented where hundreds of people at a time were vaccinated against swine flu. Millions of doses of the vaccine were distributed nationwide and despite the panic the epidemic never materialized. Hardly anyone got sick.”
Uh, yeah, dumb-shit, that’s kind of the idea…
Actually, a few people got sick as a result of the vaccinations.
14, I’m going to have pork tenderloin and foie gras for dinner in your honor. You’re going to stroke out if you keep up this level of stress. I’ve heard that happens to vegetarians. There is a strong link between vegetarianism and depression. Seek help.
That 2nd PSA was great at driving home how one can infect many – but what about that poor chihuahua!
The delivery “she gave it to Betty, Betty had a heart condition, she DIED” just made the spot that much more creepy.