Don't Take the A-Train

I'm wondering when we're going to see our first swine flu death. Oh no, I don't mean from the virus itself but from the ensuing mob mentality.

According to an eyewitness, a woman coughed on a subway train in New York City yesterday morning and didn't cover her mouth. She was reprimanded by another female passenger and a yelling match escalated until the cougher spit on the other woman. The phlegm's recipient then grabbed the ill-mannered cougher by the hair and threw her down on the subway floor.

Basically that's the end of this story, but how long will it be before people who cough and don't cover their mouths are beaten to death by their fellow citizens? Sneezing might get you stomped before long.

Because nobody wants to get the swine flu! And if we have to kill you to prevent you from spreading your germs, that's just the way it's going to have to be.