First SARS, which became a joke the second we realized we wouldn't all die from it, and now "swine flu," which sounds like a nickname for a hangover.
"Is he really sick, or does he just have a case of the 'swine flu'?"
Do we live in an age so embarrassing to history that even our pandemics sound ironic?
So I dip into Twitter and discover to my dismay and comfort that my drinking buddy Steve Crescenzo coined "the wine flu" yesterday.
Posted by: David Murray | April 27, 2009 at 04:02 PM
"Asian bird flu" doesn't do much to increase the street cred of epidemics.
Posted by: Eileen B. | April 27, 2009 at 06:39 PM
This would be a hell of a lesson, would it not?
"A population that had spent all fall and winter paralyzed with fear of an economic calamity was wiped out by a sudden swine flu in the spring."
As my mother would say: JESUS!
Posted by: David Murray | April 27, 2009 at 07:33 PM
Except, that's probably not ACTUALLY what your mother would have said, is it?
Posted by: Kristen | April 29, 2009 at 07:52 AM