When I first read about swine flu, I just moved on to the next article inadvertently thinking that it was another dig on Indian politicians. But the word flu caught my eye; seems that the doctors themselves did not have a clue about the flu and they started rolling out Tamiflus to fight the obscure flu. Just like how a rookie who can work his way in a dumb MS-DOS would pass off as an all-techie Steve Jobs among the elderly; or how a guy with a sinister quote could pass off as the-king-of-all-Philosophy Socrates among the fool multitude.
"Lone man's fight for survival under Colorado mine" makes awfully better a headline than an "84 men stuck under debris" as is evident from Billy Wilder's 'Ace in the hole'. Talk about journalism! It's all a hype. Bad news sells best. Sensational bad news sells better! Cigarettes, wars and typhoids perhaps kill more people; but people yearn to hear that another kid in 4th grade kicked the bucket thanks to swine flu. Parents should now know that education kills - not only creativity.
Seems Pune now hosts home to the single highest concentration of nurses-in-the-surgery-room - given that they all wear N95 (sounds like a new Nokia model or another flu!) masks or whatever. The local metro looks like a massive blood seeping operation theater (besides, travelling on Indian trains could in itself persuade people to shed blood, thanks to the generous 2% for safety in the Railway budget - next we're gonna have statues of righteous VIPs inside trains!). Guess the only people unaffected by all the pandemonium around us are the Jains who always seem to take ample precautions with masks! Still, how does abstaining from onions and potatoes scare off swine flu... Again, going by certain faith, God and pigs-are-sinful notions, wonder if muslims could contract the flu!
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