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Here's how you deal with the swine flu.....send body bags

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by JR, Sep 17, 2009.

  1. Armchair_QB

    Armchair_QB Well-Known Member

    Chin straps?
     
  2. JR

    JR Well-Known Member

    Keeps the aboriginal headdress on. :)
     
  3. AMacIsaac

    AMacIsaac Guest

    Friends off, 4VR!
     
  4. Armchair_QB

    Armchair_QB Well-Known Member

    Well that's awful thoughtful of them.
     
  5. Beef03

    Beef03 Active Member

    I'm sure, JR, that Harper was behind this specifically. Anyway to lighten the load in dealing with aboriginals. Hell, he probably helped in creating the strain to begin with with an eye to unleashing his devious plan to eventually send body bags to the territories. Are you kidding me? He was just up there specifically to deal with their wants and needs like two weeks ago. But I'm sure any and every screw up in the government has always been his fault directly.

    Plus H1N1 is a load of crap, especially in Canada. Its this year's Y2K. Yes a few people have died, but to be a mass killer like bored news outlets have built it up to be is a load of crap. Almost all of those who have unfortunately succumbed to it already were either the young or old or had some preexisting ailment. It's the flu. It kills thousands of people every year. Except with this strain we can attach a catchy name to it and turn on that mass hysteria switch and sell some papers/increase TV viewing.
     
  6. Gomer

    Gomer Active Member

    I saw a news report on how part of the swine flu preparation included ordering hundreds of thousands of these body bag kits and the Ontario business that made them. They were thrilled about it, obviously, and I don't remember any negative feedback from that story at the time.

    Suddenly, because the aboriginals didn't expect it along with all the stuff they were given, it's anti-native and disrespectful? I'd wager that pretty much every health institution in the country receiving these kits isn't making a fuss about the body bags.

    Whether the media overblows it is irrelevant. Fact is, the WHO has been formulating a pandemic plan for the past two decades, knowing one was imminent. Body bags were included in the plan. Governments were in on the plan. It doesn't bother me one bit if it's overkill, because all of this planning will save lives.
     
  7. Armchair_QB

    Armchair_QB Well-Known Member

    That's a very reasoned and rational response.

    What the fuck are you doing hanging around here?
     
  8. Ace

    Ace Well-Known Member

    Nice use of the word overkill.
     
  9. EE94

    EE94 Guest

    This is a bureaucratic fuckup, and nothing else.

    I am in no way a supporter of the man, but to try to attach this to Harper and Harper policies is wrong.

    This type of thing happens no matter who is in government.
     
  10. Gomer

    Gomer Active Member

    You'll notice I don't post much. If I posted every thought I had, you'd all hate me.
     
  11. zeke12

    zeke12 Guest

    Otherwise known as the BYH Theorem.
     
  12. BYH

    BYH Active Member

    You know, Loverboy was good at the beginning, but then they went too far. And got fat.
     
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