Swine Flu vs. Global Warming

Not to make light of the situation, but I keep having vision of I Am Legend running through my head as we discuss Swine Flu. Just a few thoughts I have on it - and I'm completely non "PC" in these musings:

-Dear pork industry, neh-neh. You can H1N1 all you want, but the name is stuck. And quite frankly we could all do with less environment polluting, methane producing, over consuming industries such as this one. I'm much rather you switch to working the grain instead of working the hog anyway.

- It takes an virus scare to make people wash their hands more after going potty.

- I find it vastly ironic that everybody is FREAKING out over something that has killed so very few people out of the billions of us. And seriously, no disrespect intended for those that have suffered, have lost, or many of us that might as that isn't the point. But yet we could all very well be dealing with food and water shortages, the extinction of many of us and decimation of life as we know it concerning climate change - yet we are really like the story of the frog boiling in water. It sits in the water until it is too late. We're stewing and steaming over the flu when quite frankly there are much bigger kettles to look at.

- And I'm really hoping it doesn't get bigger as then I'll feel like a raving witch for saying that.

- It will mostly likely get bigger. We are overdue (I mean that literally as the world kinda goes in cycles with pandemics) for a major flu. The world has her own little checks and balances that we are sometimes helpless with.

- I retain the right to adore Charlotte's Web.

- Can we please have some color choices for face masks?

- There is no way I'd see the US closing a city for 10 days. Hell, when one of the World Trade Centers was hit - people in the other building were told to keep working! Seriously! We have some national issues with not closing things when we should, not taking holidays, and putting priorities in order. I'm hoping if we get away from a consumer culture we can restore balance to doing the things we need to do when we need to do them.

- Wilkin's Ice Shelf Breakage (a key warming indicator) gets the same page lineup as something about Rhianna's jewelry. (And I'm not quite sure who she is or what she does other than have an abusive boyfriend). Major ice shelf folks, check it out.

It seems like a discussion about death from Swine Flu is easier to deal with than Global Warming? Is it because demands mostly action from others whereas Global Warming demands action from ourselves and accountability by our government?

I'm perplexed. Guess that is the pork rind of the issue.