Why do I mentally link the swine flu epidemic to zombies? Maybe because I watched Resident Evil Degeneration last week. Maybe because that's how all zombie films and video games begin - with the outbreak of some nasty virus that turns people into brainless cannibals. Luckily swine flu doesn't turn people into zombies - it just kills them.
I do think people are panicking a wee bit much about this. True, I live in France, where no cases have yet been found, but apparently you can't get swine flu by eating pork (so I'm told anyway) and since generally you cook pork before eating it (and cooking it kills the virus) there should be no problem. It spreads from human to human. Which makes me wonder how they managed to link it to pork. Isn't it just a new type of human flu?
Anyway, the friend who informed me of all this (because before today I hadn't watched the news in over a week) said that if it started killing everyone off he'd steal a car and hide out in the Scottish wilderness for a few weeks until everyone died. I replied that I'd probably go back and live with my parents in the middle of nowhere. But what if they all turned into zombies?
In other news, Nans' "job interview" was completely fake. They even asked him to pay a sort of insurance on the stuff he was supposed to be selling. In the end he didn't go in, and is still looking for work (or playing Resident Evil V, as the case may be).
We went to see Nans' (and my, sort of) nephew, who is three weeks old. He threw up on me. It was impressive. Projectile vomiting, the sort you expect to see in a fully fledge teenager who's eaten a curry and too many beers, not in tiny, round, adorable little bundle of joy. We decided that he was marking his territory, which means he owns me now.
I do think people are panicking a wee bit much about this. True, I live in France, where no cases have yet been found, but apparently you can't get swine flu by eating pork (so I'm told anyway) and since generally you cook pork before eating it (and cooking it kills the virus) there should be no problem. It spreads from human to human. Which makes me wonder how they managed to link it to pork. Isn't it just a new type of human flu?
Anyway, the friend who informed me of all this (because before today I hadn't watched the news in over a week) said that if it started killing everyone off he'd steal a car and hide out in the Scottish wilderness for a few weeks until everyone died. I replied that I'd probably go back and live with my parents in the middle of nowhere. But what if they all turned into zombies?
In other news, Nans' "job interview" was completely fake. They even asked him to pay a sort of insurance on the stuff he was supposed to be selling. In the end he didn't go in, and is still looking for work (or playing Resident Evil V, as the case may be).
We went to see Nans' (and my, sort of) nephew, who is three weeks old. He threw up on me. It was impressive. Projectile vomiting, the sort you expect to see in a fully fledge teenager who's eaten a curry and too many beers, not in tiny, round, adorable little bundle of joy. We decided that he was marking his territory, which means he owns me now.
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