Comments on: Super Bird/Pig Flu email Terror Alert + Terminator Gene http://www.benhider.com/blog/2009/04/super-birdpig-flu-email-terror-alert-terminator-gene/ Photography, Art, Music, Ben Hider, Food, Tibet, India Mon, 29 Aug 2011 17:53:06 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: auto body repair salt lake city http://www.benhider.com/blog/2009/04/super-birdpig-flu-email-terror-alert-terminator-gene/comment-page-1/#comment-16923 auto body repair salt lake city Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:23:22 +0000 http://www.benhider.com/blog/?p=1085#comment-16923 At first sight, it seems strange that the Government should rank influenza as the biggest threat facing the country. After all, flu is a familiar foe. It turns up every winter. And though it does kill some people – very old, very young, or already infirm – the worst that most of us needs to fear is a few unpleasant days in bed. In an age which has defeated smallpox, and is even steadily beating back cancer, it would not seem to present much of a problem. Wealthier and healthier than ever, we have come to assume that we left the threat of devastating plagues behind way back in history. In comparison with the much-publicised terrorist threat, it seems small beer indeed. At first sight, it seems strange that the Government should rank influenza as the biggest threat facing the country. After all, flu is a familiar foe. It turns up every winter. And though it does kill some people – very old, very young, or already infirm – the worst that most of us needs to fear is a few unpleasant days in bed.

In an age which has defeated smallpox, and is even steadily beating back cancer, it would not seem to present much of a problem. Wealthier and healthier than ever, we have come to assume that we left the threat of devastating plagues behind way back in history. In comparison with the much-publicised terrorist threat, it seems small beer indeed.

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