Breaking News Panic Alert Round-up

Be very afraid! The news on the swine flu front is all bad.  A deceptive calm pervades, on the heels of an impotent CDC whimper that cases may have peaked in the US.

We at the Center for Swine Flu Panic warned in June of 2009 that there was a likelihood that the situation could reach a meta-stable point and then rush headlong into disaster, through the background process of:

ANTIGENIC SHIFT.  Did anyone listen?

True to that prescient reportage, scientists in Norway are RIGHT NOW investigating  mutant H1N1 that has the potential for infiltrating the lungs more deeply, causing more severe disease and higher mortality!

Meanwhile, our pharmacological bulwark is being washed over by a tidal wave of DRUG-RESISTANT STRAINS of the virus.

In the shadows of a cold Ukrainian night, a plane lands on an airstrip with its lights turned-off, its transponder silenced by the pilot.

An extraordinary rendition is taking place. Boxes of Tamilflu are being off-loaded for the President and his cronies. Meanwhile, the terrified Ukrainian populace, having no access to this last smoldering candle of hope, reverts to Medieval superstitions:

"anxious residents have overwhelmed hospitals and pharmacies, buying up supplies of gauze masks and home remedies such as lemons and garlic. Rumors have proliferated that people are dying of a new, more lethal strain of the virus.'

How long can it be until the first round of witch trials begins? Oh, the humanity...

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