Thursday, September 17, 2009

Assembly Resolution Wants People to Stop Saying “Swine” Flu

Seriously?  The Assembly passed a resolution about this?  Seriously!?!?  There aren’t any more pressing matters?

State government and the media are being urged to stop using the term “swine flu” when referring to a strain of the influenza virus, under a nonbinding resolution the state Assembly is expected to pass Thursday.

The stigma is harmful to the state’s pork industry, said Rep. Phil Garthwaite (D-Fennimore), whose resolution encourages state agencies and media outlets to substitute “2009 H1N1 influenza” instead.

We seriously need a part time legislature.

(15) Comments
Posted by Owen at 0701 hrs
Politics + Politics - Wisconsin

  1. Oh, for cryin’ out loud.  It’s not like everyone doesn’t call it the swine flu anyways.  Sheesh!  Ridiculous waste of time.  Who calls it H1N1?  WHO?

    Posted by GAMazy on September 17, 2009 at 0850 hrs


  2. Speech police?  We can’t obscene books out of the childrens section at the library, but we can stop people from saying “swine”?  Good grief.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 17, 2009 at 0857 hrs


  3. Be careful what you ask for, Owen. I’m not so sure you want anything even remotely resembling the circus that is the part-time Texas Legislature. wink

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 17, 2009 at 1028 hrs


  4. I’ll stop calling it “swine flu” when they stop calling a decrease in the percentage of increased spending a “budget cut”

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 17, 2009 at 1037 hrs


  5. Fine.  I’ll call it what I already call it - the “Pig Flu”

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 17, 2009 at 1122 hrs


  6. Phil Garthwaite almost makes a guy nostalgic for Gabe Loeffelholz, no?

    Posted by Recess Supervisor on September 17, 2009 at 1129 hrs


  7. I was going to comment, but Dan has the Comment of the Day™

    Posted by steveegg on September 17, 2009 at 1244 hrs


  8. It does seem like they should have more pressing things to be spending their time on. Also, it’s not possible to contract H1N1 from pork meat, so it shouldn’t affect the pork industry. Of course the general public isn’t aware of / doesn’t believe that. So all we have to do is get the MSM to make a few reports about how pork meat is safe and everyone will be happily buying pork products again. Seems easier than getting everyone to stop saying swine.

    Posted by Calgary Movers on September 17, 2009 at 1405 hrs


  9. Who calls it H1N1?  WHO?

    Seriously? I haven’t heard it called swine flu recently until this post. I’m in the Twin Cities, and it’s been H1N1 only up here since spring. The national media has been calling it H1N1 for months as well.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 17, 2009 at 1533 hrs


  10. It’s insensitive to call it Swine Flu because if a Muslim catches it he won’t go to heaven if he dies from it, but more importantly he can’t collect on his 72 virgins. Time to buy stock in surgical masks

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 17, 2009 at 1634 hrs


  11. Opps, my mistake, that would mean the U.S. still operated under the free market system. I meant get ready for another tax increase to pay for the defective, Government “issued” surgical masks.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 17, 2009 at 1703 hrs


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    Any questions.

    Gotta go drink some victory gin, so I’ll have the courage to stand up to the proles.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 17, 2009 at 1712 hrs


  13. Ok, I’ll call it the “stimulus” flu instead

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 17, 2009 at 1722 hrs


  14. Seriously, I recommend mandatory hard labor battalions for all members of the legislature who voted for this.  After all, idle hands are the devil’s workshop.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 17, 2009 at 2052 hrs


  15. Waste of time?  You bet.  And as another has said, folks likely will STILL call it swine flu.  But I like these kind of worthless actions.  Just think of the harm they could be causing if they were doing something serious.

    BTW, on another topic, think I see some green shoots…..


    Darn, it was only pond scum and mold.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 18, 2009 at 1909 hrs


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