Friday, April 23, 2004

SARS IS BACK - HURRAH

The W.H.O. is today breathing a sigh of relief. After several months when they have unable to find any new diseases which they can use to vastly over-inflate their own importance at the expense of global panic, SARS has reappeared in China. This is great news for the W.H.O. after the debacle over Bird-Flu which failed to really scare anyone (except the chickens obviously).

My advice to the W.H.O. for future scare stories incidentally is to come up with something more frightening as a name than bird-flu. you just can't take that seriously no matter how bad it really is. It just conjures up images of chickens sneezing. Bird-SARS would have been better. Or Avian fever.

Anyway time for the dim-witted out there to dust off their boxes off face masks and give the rest of us something to laugh at.