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Apr. 30th, 2009 07:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zana16So at the Metro this morning, I was reading about how Egypt is killing all its pigs despite no cases of swine flu, and how supposedly in Israel they're calling it "Mexican flu" instead of "swine flu" to avoid "offending people" (uh...), and how Texas is postponing athletic competitions in public schools, and how people are buying face masks despite little evidence they'll actually help, and...
And I was standing there thinking, This is overreacting. There haven't been many cases, there haven't been many deaths, this is crazy. And as I waited for the train to come I congratulated myself on not buying into the hype.
Then I started listening to the woman next to me, who was on her cell phone, saying how she left work yesterday because she was sick and couldn't concentrate, and then I started edging away from her, and then I started thinking Are you nuts? You're sick and yet you're on public transportation, infecting potentially thousands of people? You crazy bitch!
And then I spent the rest of the day trying to convince myself not to freak out because I keep coughing.
*sigh*
Well, in DC you live with the ever-present danger of delusional extremists blowing up the city anyways. I suppose this is just another danger to add to the everyday... I don't know how I managed to actually live on Capitol Hill for a year and a half. Now I live in Prince Georges County, which no one would bomb because seriously, New Orleans showed us how much our government cares about the destruction of poor black neighborhoods. Low rent, peace of mind, a drug dealer across the street, walking home from the Metro at night with "91" dialed on your cell and your finger on that last "1"... Okay, there are trade-offs.
And I was standing there thinking, This is overreacting. There haven't been many cases, there haven't been many deaths, this is crazy. And as I waited for the train to come I congratulated myself on not buying into the hype.
Then I started listening to the woman next to me, who was on her cell phone, saying how she left work yesterday because she was sick and couldn't concentrate, and then I started edging away from her, and then I started thinking Are you nuts? You're sick and yet you're on public transportation, infecting potentially thousands of people? You crazy bitch!
And then I spent the rest of the day trying to convince myself not to freak out because I keep coughing.
*sigh*
Well, in DC you live with the ever-present danger of delusional extremists blowing up the city anyways. I suppose this is just another danger to add to the everyday... I don't know how I managed to actually live on Capitol Hill for a year and a half. Now I live in Prince Georges County, which no one would bomb because seriously, New Orleans showed us how much our government cares about the destruction of poor black neighborhoods. Low rent, peace of mind, a drug dealer across the street, walking home from the Metro at night with "91" dialed on your cell and your finger on that last "1"... Okay, there are trade-offs.