Maybe I’m the opposite of a hypochondriac. Maybe I’m paranoid. Or maybe I’m just an idiot.

But I think the swine flu is a load of shit.

And by “load of shit” I mean, “government experiment.”

What experiment they’re conducting I’m not sure. But I’m pretty sure it has something to do with modern human beings’ apathy towards national news media. When you mix this with the aim of getting the public’s attention off the shitty economy for a hot second, it seems almost plausible.

The reason I think this Swine Flu Epidemic is interesting is because it seems to me that people just don’t care. In the past 5 days I visited two of the places where there were supposed “outbreaks”— The University of Delaware in Newark, DE, and New York City. As far as I saw, people in neither place didn’t seem bothered by the flu whatsoever, let alone even know there was an outbreak. The entire time I was there, I saw one mask. I asked my friends in New York if they were worried about catching anything. One of them said “No,” told me I was sitting on his Wii controller, and asked me to kill myself. Good guy.

The point is, people just do not care. And the answer why is desensitization.

Think of the how the news media over-saturates us with stories, thrusting them in our faces despite the fact we were all desensitized long ago—the culmination of too much information, too much TV, too much internet, massed together in a giant ball of lethargy.

While I realize the idea of a government experiment is a highly ridiculous and downright absurd claim to make, it may be something to think about.

At the least, it would make an interesting plot to a movie someday.

Write that one down. That’s a freebie.

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