On the 11th of June 2009, the world health organisation officially launched their H1N1 pandemic public announcement. Almost 9 months later, the projected 100,000 a day death toll that was screamed from pretty much every tabloid headline, news program and “Respected Scientist/Doctor/Man” who knows something about pigs, has failed to materialise. Now don’t get me wrong, this is a good thing. I quite like the fact that my fellow Londoners are not dropping around me like flies and that my beloved LDN doesn’t resemble that scene from “28 days later”(You know the one). But something doesn’t sit quite right with me about all of this if I’m honest, I have a feeling that refuses to go away, a kind of “Someone has got one over on me, but I don’t know what it is that they have done” feeling. But it also feels like I’m a bit crazy, that I’m the only person that feels like we deserve an explanation as to why people of global importance haven’t clarified why the, and I quote “Modern day equivalent of the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic” that was responsible for anywhere between a 50-100 million deaths worldwide, hasn’t been the global human life killer that was so intensively and (in my opinion) excessively forced upon us by our own media and government, as well as the media and governments of other nations. It has a certain WMD feel to it, and I think it’s pretty much accepted now that the Iraq invasion was launched with a different agenda to the one that was so publicly broadcast, but I digress, the fact is that the dreaded H1N1 Influenza virus AKA “Swine flu” never materialised, mutated, spread through public transport systems like wildfire, or went into overdrive when the kids all went back to school as was projected. Either someone needs to be told “Well done, you single handed saved the earth and all its inhabitants from the most deadly virus ever known to man” or “You naughty boy/girl, scaring the poor little earth and all its inhabitants with your lies, what would your mother say?” followed by a firm slap on the wrist. I’m not foolish enough to dismiss the possibility that it could have been a mistake, or a well thought out precautionary measure to ensure that the virus did not spread as projected. But as long as no one steps forward to explain, then my brain will keep coming up with these...What’s that? Conspiracy theories you say? Don’t be silly!*My fingers where crossed, and I was touching my desk, which is made of wood. Beech, to be precise.
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