The swine flu has not made it to Egypt yet but the government is taking all possible precautions. They have started slaughtering all the pigs in the country, all 300,000 of them. This might sound like a good idea except for the fact that you don't get it from pigs but from infected humans. I wonder if they would kill all the birds if there was another bird flu.
Another problem with this is that the pigs eat the trash. Coptic Christians own the pigs and pick up the trash from the city everyday. They are up at 4am picking up the trash and then they sort it and sell to recyclers whatever they can and feed the food to the pigs. The Christians have said that if their pigs are slaughtered then they are not going to pick up the trash. Now, this is a reason for concern because if the trash is not picked up then you are really going to have disease and pestilence.
I guess I will let these people run their own government and advise everyone out there not to get the swine flu.
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Tell that pig I hate him.
Well anyway this reminds me of a completely unrelated story that someone told us. She said in Pakistan her and her family were going along and saw a pig, and she said oh look there's a pig, and then her father turned to her and scolding her said, "Don't say pig, it's too insulting, just call it a filthy animal."
Oh yeah, and thanks for your good advice about not getting the swine flu.
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