I haven’t posted very much stuff about swine flu, aka H1N1 but more amusingly bacon flu, but that’s largely because the mass media is doing a heck of a job. There are a few aspects that interest me, and one of them is how well the original, non-sanitized name is holding on.
I think we’ll make Fridays into Swine Flu Watch days, where we don’t track deaths or any real news other than the number of instances of Swine Flu versus H1N1 in the news. At the moment, according to Google News, the score is 42045 for swine flu (10019 without mention of H1N1) and 106630 for H1N1 (78049 without mention of swine flu.)
Anyone want to make this into an automated widget?
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