I think that the governments of the world must have a meeting each year and come up with ideas for how they can take people's minds off more serious issues.
Nothing works quite like disease or a plague to distract people, so lately they have been using the old epidemic gag.
Last year, it was bird flu. This year, swine flu.
What's on the cards for 2010? Are rickets or bubonic plague going to make a return?
Or will we have something new, like pubic flu?
I'm waiting for a paintball manufacturer to come out with a "Swine Flu" edition gun. Should make a few bob.