When I was a kid I remember the news media all in a tizzy about acid rain. Factories were spewing Sulphur Dioxide which was killing the habitats of fish. I think the absence of dead fish washing up on shore sent the media looking for another “big one” to hook.
Before that in the 1970′s the big things were Global Cooling and . . . . the swine flu. Can you believe that? Almost 40 years later and we’ve got people worrying about Global Warming and . . . . the swine flu. back in the 1970′s – only one person died from the swine flu. Many have died from it this go-round, but more people will die from the regular flu TODAY than all of swine flu deaths combined.
Don’t forget about the hole in the ozone layer. It’ll get bigger and bigger and then someday we’ll all burn to death. That’s what we were told in the
5th grade. The hole is still the same size today, and the Australians have been told the measures they took were the measures that stopped the Ozone hole from growing. Way to go Ozzies.
So what’s next Uncle Sam? I guess in the absence of war-time body bags washing up on shore, the media and government give us something to be mad at so we’re not mad at them. And since the Swine Flu hasn’t yet taken Obama’s Health Care plan off the front page – we should be due for the next plague any time now.
Acid Flu? Swine rain? Global Ozone Cooling?
I hope you already own stock in the hand sanitizing companies.
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