Twitdemic
April 30, 2009
Word of the swine flu’s global reach travels so quickly across the web, it’s enough to leave the pandemic-aspiring virus itself a little green with envy. Yet our shiny, digital messenger machine, when enlisted as weaponry in defence against the outbreak, comes with two sharp edges when in the hands of both the CDC and your paranoid, basement-dwelling set.
To wit, the Twit:
Exhibit A: As the UK’s Telegraph and other worldwide media outlets usefully inform, The US Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is using Twitter to post their latest official news on the swine flu and direct people to helpful information. Perfect – the CDC leverages the hottest online social media site to calmly dispense up-to-date, informed advice on a legitimate world health threat to a rapidly growing base of followers.
Exhibit B (via Daniel Sung at TechdigestTV): Family man Steve Lange mind you, super-keen to take his new Twitter account for a spin, perhaps didn’t pause to consider just what he was contributing to the swine flu digital meme with this blood-in-the-streets-inducing nugget of wisdom:
July 8, 2009 at 10:41 pm
Yes, they were piled up I imagine: all those that accepted the “vaccine” into their bodies which were just experiments in the first place. The way to avoid the swine flu – the first flu virus to have human, bird and pig poisons in it …um, how did that happen? As I was saying, the best way to avoid “catching” the swine flu is ….don’t get vaccinated for it!
What a crazy concept.
Alternative-alternative media time. Check out these websites for a ‘dose’ that rivals whatever was fed into the veins of WWI soldiders and Gulf War veterans:
http://www.educate-yourself.org
http://www.rense.com
The swine flu is a hoax; don’t fall for it.