Epidemic? Or the next big hype?
All the newspapers headline these days is the problem of a new hybrid strain of swine flu. Oh, there are still the occasional problem of the global economy, and the various problems that the Philippines itself sees everyday, but these are old news. Alongside the stunning dimsantling of Ricky Hatton, there is the increasing number of infected people from the H1N1 virus - something which can be called the ManBirdPig flu. With more than 4,000 confirmed cases (not even mentioning the unconfirmed cases) and growing, world officials have decided that this new flu is dangerous enough to possibly be a pandemic. Though it isn’t the bubonic plague, the rate by which the disease spreads is something to be cautious about. For the paranoid, even a tiny bit of coughing would probably be enough to send them running to the hospital, ready to inject themselves with vaccines and cures. The combination of this disease, along with the failing economy and the nuclear crisis in rogue countries, makes my wild imagination think of a return to man’s Dark Ages. Whatever happens, good or bad, it will be an interesting year or two ahead of us.