Over-kill?

Seriously? Swine flu? There is an entire news story about the single death in the US from swine flu on MSNBC. Are you fucking kidding me? You could probably find someone that dies from Ebola, too. Not to mention the 36,000 people that dies from the regular Human Flu every year. Let's all panic! Good gravy! The woman who died didn't even die of the Swine Flu! It's a "Swine flu related death" but is attributed to "chronic underlying health concerns". So someone who has already sick caught a weird version of the flu & died. Sad? Probably. Reason for panic? Nu-uh.

In completely unrelated news, the Metro Police pulled a dude off the 12 yesterday. He was sleeping & riding in loops without paying. They cops were all confused that the dude wouldn't pay his $20-bill for the fair (drivers don't give change, & apparently neither do the police). So they wrote him a ticket, like he's going to pay it & banned him from metro for 2 weeks. Like they can enforce either of those punishments. I know this because the driver gave a play by play to the rest of the bus & wouldn't pull away from the bus stop until all the drama was complete. No wonder the bus is always late. It seemed a little bit over the top that a dude sleeping on a bus merited a county sheriff car, a SPD car & a Metro supervisor to haul him out. He was sleeping, not waving a baseball bat (which has happened on a bus with less consequenses).