This Little Piggie Went Home

Remember the swine flu?

I was thinking I hadn't heard much about it lately so I decided to do a little surfing on the internet and this is what I came up with.

THE NUMBER OF SWINE FLU CASES IN CHINA HAVE TRIPLED SINCE THE ONSET OF WINTER!

Now I don't know if the seasons are different in China, but it's still fall where I am. Okay, we'll let that little discrepancy slide. Anyway, aren't there a billion people in China? A tripling of the number of H1N1 cases could be catastrophic, right?

From the Canadian Press: By Sunday, the Chinese mainland had recorded 178 deaths from the H1N1 virus - a threefold-plus jump from the 53 deaths announced Nov. 15, according to the ministry's Web site.

Okay, out of 1.3 billion people there have been 178 deaths from swine flu. This is in freaking China where they're packed in like sardines. Does that number even translate into a fraction?

All right, but what about the entire world? You know, the world that's going to be wiped out by this virus.

Well, there are 6.8 billion people in the world and to date H1N1 has killed almost 8,750 people globally, according to the latest European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) tallies.

This is the sorriest excuse for a pandemic I have ever seen.

People around the world are not lining up to get their vaccinations so apparently the pharmaceutical companies manufacturing the vaccine aren't going to make the whole lot of money they were planning on.

Back to the drawing board, boys and girls. Time to find another disease with which to frighten the world.