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April 4, 2006


funny headline
posted by soe 12:00 pm

“Travel bans won’t stop bird flu”

Well, of course not. Birds can’t read signs to know they’ve crossed a border…

(We will ignore, for the moment, my feeling that this is the most overhyped science story of the year.)

Category: life -- uncategorized. There is/are 3 Comments.



Wouldn’t it be nice if a travel ban had that much power? It’d be like a form of magic: “Halt, foul virus! I invoke the Patron Saint of Beur.. Buar… Bura… of Red Tape and prevent you from passing this line!”

The medical community would be revolutionized. Instead of flocking to shrines to Saint Ann, or crying Virgin Mary statues, people would make a run for the border. Step over an imaginary line and leave everything from colds to cancer behind.

Wouldn’t want to get stuck cleaning up after people crossed that line, though.

Comment by Grey Kitten 04.05.06 @ 1:42 pm

Yes, but think how easily that could be abused. If you want to get rid of people we don’t like, we could spread rumors about how this or that is coming to get us and the only safe place is someplace else. Or they could do the same to us: Global warming? Canada is the only safe place. Liberals would flock north…

Comment by soe 04.05.06 @ 2:01 pm

But then we would all be in Canada, where people still care about civil rights. Sure, it would be cold – or maybe if the global warming pans out, not so much – but we would at least have freedom.

Comment by Grey Kitten 04.06.06 @ 2:55 am