I got flu from it once, felt awful for 2 weeks. It was the first year I was diagnosed with diabetes, so they managed to talk me into it. Never again. I've decided the Corporate Medical Bastards are onto a really good thing with this one!

I mean, flu's been around for centuries...We never had mass innoculations against it back when I was growing up, and we never had thousands dying from flu. I've had the real whole caboodle, once in my life, and that was pretty grim, but hell, I survived, even though I couldn't move any limbs for almost a week....and my then husband was the same.

It worried me how much this whole thing's got blown out of proportion, the scare-mongering going on all over..the anti-flu wipes, the sterile this and that packs at the chemist, the signs about swine flu, the recorded messages on your GPs phone system..."If you think you have swine flu, go stand in a field, very very far away from US, as we don't want it!"   (I jest)

You don't think the world's being made to feel just a teensy bit neurotic do you? All this as the Corporate Medical Bastards rake all the money in, with their unsterilized greedgerm-ridden hands....


Anyone seen The Constant Gardener?   If not, watch it...


And yes, I realise I may well have now summoned up The Flu Faeries who'll cough and sneeze and splutter their Dust du Contagia all over me......and nothing will ever be heard from me again... ;0)