Archive for May, 2009

media virus?

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

“Swine flu” 17,300,000 hits. 30 deaths. How many face masks purchased? Did I just pass it on….

swine flu and the shit thing about globalisation

Friday, May 1st, 2009

I notice with some irony that swine flu is thought to have begun in a town in close proximity to where US company Smithfield operates:
“According to state agents of the Mexican social security institute, the vector of this outbreak are the clouds of flies that come out of the hog barns, and the waste lagoons [...]