pigs are getting a sustained hammering at the moment

What? is swine 'flu affecting kiwi's ability to humanely slaughter pigs now? It's worse than we thought: maddened 'flu sufferers attack pigs with hammers, continually.

As Linley Boniface noted in her column in the DomPost, an anti-science agenda appears to underlie all this weirdness:

Thanks for that link Carol. Funny how "Why?" dissolves the argument behind most conspiracy theories.

Although... pigs are getting a sustained hammering at the moment, is it mere coincidence?

http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/opinion/2501133/The-great-swine-flu-conspiracy

Some sort of ASBO, I guess.

Sean Plunket was practically advocating swine flu parties this morning before the public health spokeswoman managed to ram it through his brain that there was a big social cost to everyone getting it all at once.

Yeah, that was a bit of a worry.

the Lower Manhattan mole people who were using alien technology stolen from crypts in Giza to develop mind-control drugs disguised as cancer vaccines

You forgot the reverse vampires.

Sean Plunket was practically advocating swine flu parties this morning before the public health spokeswoman managed to ram it through his brain…

So instead of wiping out my zits, they took over my mind?

That does fit all too well with teen behaviour.

Let 'em all contract it & die, surely the gene pool will be richer for it.

So instead of wiping out my zits, they took over my mind? OMG!

Since elements within Big Pharma obviously re-packaged those mind control drugs and distributed them as Gardasil, I'm not so sure I agree.

I understand your concern, but sadly you can't believe everything you hear from Family First.

... It's not the same without any actual conspiracy theorists left on the…

See, large corporations do sometimes do good, if one's willing to take a realistic view of things.

Since elements within Big Pharma obviously re-packaged those mind control drugs and distrubted them as Gardasil, I'm not so sure I agree.

But the pharmaceutical companies arethe ones who orchestrated 911. Duh.

Ah, but what you'll never read about in the left-controlled media is the secondary operation below Ground Zero, where Big Pharma agents moved to wipe out a lab run by the Lower Manhattan mole people who were using alien technology…

At least it makes a change from the other popular theme on the Herald RV, that swine flu has been foisted on us by evil pharmaceutical companies to get us to buy their expired stocks of Tamiflu.

But the pharmaceutical companies are the ones who orchestrated 911. Duh.

Multiple globally disparate h1n1 strains combining in the 1 place is extremely unlikely to be a natural occurrence. The same group that orchestrated 911 and the credit crisis are responsible. There is documented proof of…

Personally I am sad about that since the last 'flu vax I had a few years ago (I'm slightly asthmatic) caused an allergic reaction.

Allergic reactions to vaccines are reasonably common. The reason is vaccines always include something called adjuvant which is a mixture of chemicals designed to stimulate…

I was annoyed when the power was turned off just before Dr Who came on.

Paul, are you coming out as a secret Sci-Fi fan?

They do not realise that things were so crap in the mid-70s that people welcomed Mrs Thatcher as a saviour.

It took me a long…

Our family spent time living in tents on Rangitoto island in the seventies. We had a perfectly good house on the mainland. I still don't know what that was all about.

Sadly, your parents were decades ahead of their time, these days you could parlay that sort of thing into…

We had a cold water tap and made cooking fires in cut down "kerosene tins." They rusted out in about six weeks then we would go back of the grocer;'s and take another one.

__Salvation Army, saved from sin
Went up to heaven in a kerosine tin
The tin caught…

I was born December 1937, so I was turning 10, I had a dog,and I was not allowed to go to school, or mix with other kids.

Nobody challenged a kid who…

His name was Hoppy Nick, before he had it lengthened by modern medical procedure.

What was it afterwards? Monopedal Periodic Ambulatory Nicholas ?

I would have thought deed poll would have been more suitable than anything medical.

I should never have read The Stand.

What I'm quietly wigging out about is what a pandemic will do to hospital services...

We are likely to see a lot more flu this year than previous years and that will put a load on hospitals. But it is actually the kind of thing for which hospitals prepare. Waiting…

I'd rather catch the flu now and hope

On second thoughts...

O. Hoppy Nick didn't get his long leg lengthened, that was a mistake on my part. It was his shorter leg that was lengthened to match the longer one.

A Surprise for Little Bobby

It was little Bobby's birthmark today and he got a surprise. His very fist was lopped…

"It's called a PUBLIC health system, you know.

One suspects the writer of that email misunderstands the meaning of the word "emergency".

There is theory that those over 60 have a natural immunity to H1N1 due to a similar but forgotten epidemic in the 1940s. It could possibly be related to the old outbreaks of whooping cough which were everywhere in the 1940s.

The combination H1N1 hasn't been around since the Spanish…

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Old Man: I don't want to go on the cart....
Man:…

There is theory that those over 60 have a natural immunity to H1N1 due to a similar but forgotten epidemic in the 1940s. It could possibly be related to the old outbreaks of whooping cough which were everywhere in the 1940s.

Not a theory I'm terribly keen to test out…

Forced to stay inside, with nothing but a computer to look at. What will I do all day?

Hacking monsters to bits would be a good start. Although there was a particularly infamous incident on there a few years back.

One of the worst things about the polio epidemics, from those who remember them, is that you weren't even allowed to play with the neighbourhood kids.

Yeah but Michael Jaclkson's been living with that law for many years now, the rest of us can probably handle it too...

One of the worst things about the polio epidemics,…

The disease was very well publicised during the polio epidemics of the 1950s, with extensive media coverage . . .

Sounds like a load of hysterical media hype to me.