Psych! It seems that a single person in Denmark has a case of the virus that is resistant to medication. Imagine that. A virus that resists treatment. Doctors stated that this man seems to be the only human being alive with the more resistant strain of the virus. Of course, they’re not contemplating about whether the anomaly lies with the patient, they’re assuming that a super-virus has developed.

Currently, Fox News is working on what to call a one-man virus outbreak that will still grab headlines.

I voted for “mandemic”.

Well, first you ease into the letdown, making sure that you phrase it in such a way that it’s ambiguously insinuated that the risk is still lurking around the corner.  Then you begin ridiculing the hordes of people that fell for your bullshit.

You see, the death toll for the swine flu currently stands at 19. The average number of deaths annually from standard influenza?  36, o00.  While you can creatively adjust numbers to make the word “epidemic” fit, it seems that the disparity between these two figures are too great for even the US media to stretch.

Now, I’m not blaming the news agencies.  They’re no better than spammers.  They’re in it to make money and everyone knows that fear sells.  The mental defects that watched the news and immediately donned paper masks while wrapping themselves in cheesecloth deserved every minute of anguish that they endured.

I’m just sorry that I didn’t have the forsight to buy stock in dust masks.

Compliments of xkcd.

And just after the break: Water is wet and fire is hot.

It seems the tech internet news sites are just getting around to discussing the fact that Twitter is useless as a source for receiving legitimate information.  In this instance, they’ve used the swine flu scare(I refuse to use the word outbreak in conjunction with swine flu, since there is no outbreak. Also, please take note that I won’t be attributing Proper Name status to the term swine flu.  You’re a fucking mental hemorrhoid if you don’t see the pathetic attempts of the news agencies for what they are.)

In short, the article is simply stating the same things I have been saying all along. You deserve what you get if you use it to influence any decision you make in your life.   It’s been overrun by megalomaniacs, slaves to to the flavor of the week and people who like the internet equivalent of hearing themselves talk.

Call me a luddite if you will, but it’s clear to everyone (except those busily sharing their shopping list on their Twitter feed) that Twitter, as a source of valuable information is a failure.  Sure, there are companies, people and organizations using it for it’s intended purpose and to it’s potential.  The problem is that the number of them is so small that they’re buried by all the dipshits that created an account with nothing useful to say. The problem is exacerbated by the fact that these same dipshits JUST…. KEEP…. POSTING….

Twitter, as a technology had the same capabilities as any other idea started by a couple guys with no money and dreams of making it big in the dotcom world.  It could have grown into something useful and more, it could have taken the place of an older news format that’s losing relevance.  What happened instead is it got picked up by the crowd that has nothing of value to provide.  You began seeing celebrities using it to gain more fans, which in turn gave us an influx of morning show host-types inviting you to ride the next wave of coolness by subscribing to this new thing called “Twitter”.  Why, you  could subscribe to their “tweets” and you would receive our thoughts as they gave them to you.  All the people sitting at home stuffing their faces with twinkies now have their heros, the celebrities and the people that tell them the truth about the world, the morning show hosts telling them that they needed to to hop on this bandwagon.

And so Twitter exploded as the place to be and thing to do and died as a legitimate form of communication.