The real tragedy of SARS (warning - humour!)

Here's a pic I took yesterday while walking around town...

All lapdancing was banned in the UK during the Foot & Mouth outbreak because they were worried by 'camel toes'.

Trader Woody

Our mailroom delivery boy at my office still has to wear those latex "bend over & cough" gloves whenever he brings up the mail because of terrorist anthrax letter hysteria that threw the nation's post offices into a fit of paranoia a year ago. Meanwhile gas masks and surgical masks are flying off store shelves faster than Michael Jackson can say "who's laughing now?"

Tikifish, I think you should wear a mask when you photograph those discarded mattresses!

I refuse to wear a mask. Unless I'm 90 and licking hospital door handles, I have no need to be afraid of SARS!

Bears, bars, cars... but not SARS.

What's lame about this SARS scare is that since 300 plus people have died of SARS, 100,000 plus have died of the flu.

I guess I'm just here to inflame the paranoia!

SARS is scary because apparently everyone is vulnerable to it - young, healthy people don't generally die of the flu, but they easily can of SARS.

My favorite SARS humor was the graphic on the Daily Show - SARS ATTACKS! Written in the style of an old MARS ATTACKS! sci fi comic.

Did anybody see the Southpark episode the other night where the Indians (er native Americans) bought the town so they could tear it down & build a super highway to their new casino? After the Southpark citizens protested, the Indians (er native Americans) decided to appease them by giving everyone an authentic hand woven Indian blanket. Before they turned over the blankets they brought in a bunch of SARS infected Chinese & rubbed them against the blankets in the hopes of killing off the Southpark residents and thus eliminating their problem. I'm sure anyone familiar with American history remembers the U.S. Army doing the same thing to the Indians in the Mid 1800's with blankets infected with smallpox. I guess that was when biological warfare caught on.

On 2003-05-05 00:00, Shipwreckjoey wrote:
I'm sure anyone familiar with American history remembers the U.S. Army doing the same thing to the Indians in the Mid 1800's with blankets infected with smallpox. I guess that was when biological warfare caught on.

Our First President was engaged in such activities as a Virginia Militia Officer during the 'French and Indian War' (that was BEFORE the American Revolution for you High School Students.)

Hey! Let's not be so harsh on viruses. They gotta live to ya know! I mean they had mommas, and they reproduce off-spring. They were reportedly here on Earth first. What's makes us Humans think anything attacking us is bad? Geez.