Comments on: Why I don’t want to write about Swine ‘Flu https://wolfiewolfgang.com/why-i-dont-want-to-write-about-swine/ Check in for my regular blogs and reviews Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:27:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: WolfieWolfgang https://wolfiewolfgang.com/why-i-dont-want-to-write-about-swine/#comment-212 Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:27:00 +0000 https://wolfiewolfgang.com/?p=1610#comment-212 So I take it you haven’t got your surgical mask yet Anatole!

I wondered whether I should get one as covering half my face might be quite flattering. I mean that mysterious look when only your eyes show. I was thinking Omar Sharif in Lawrence of Arabia or the schoolboy in Lindsay Anderson’s film If who hides his illegal moustache behind an elaborate woolen scarf.

It was actually an affectation I practised in those days when I knew no better.

Surgical scrubs with a surgical mask have a certain appeal too.

I am going to the infection central at the doctor’s surgery tomorrow so that’s me gone. I catch everything the moment any new virus comes our way so the swines will get me for sure.

Maybe I should panic! But on consideration, you are right. WTF.

]]> By: Anatole https://wolfiewolfgang.com/why-i-dont-want-to-write-about-swine/#comment-211 Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:32:00 +0000 https://wolfiewolfgang.com/?p=1610#comment-211 I’ve made this comment before here, but people have a deep-seated need to panic. Where I live, every time the weather report calls for a half-inch of snow (not an extraordinary event here), everyone runs to the supermarket in horror and tears every last bit of white bread and milk off the shelves–things they normally shun due to their panic over simple carbs and cholesterol–in case they’ll be stranded starving in their houses for a week or two by the epic blizzard. Of course the TV news does help fan the flames, but still, as they say, wtf.

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