Monday, November 09, 2009
Warlords, Drug lords, Taliban and now H1N1
Poor benighted Afghanistan has another misery to add to the usual afflictions upon the people.
As if the Taliban, car bombs, roadside bombs, leftover Soviet land mines, political unrest and errant NATO air attacks weren't enough, Afghans are facing a new killer: the H1N1 flu pandemic...The government is doing what it can in the face of the usual obstacles of ignorance and rumor. And showing himself to be a real man of the people, Karzai of the Afghans managed to step in a big pile of camel shit.
...In the past few days, surgical face masks have bloomed like poppies on the faces of worried pedestrians along crowded streets and markets of the capital as more cases were reported.
Karzai, meanwhile, accidentally added to his flu troubles during a television address Friday night when he referred to the illness by its common name, swine flu, rather than H1N1. The strain is transmitted from person to person, not from animals to people.We should stop being so obstinate and agree with the Afghans, pack up and leave. It sure will cost less.
The first reported cases in Afghanistan were among U.S. soldiers and other foreigners working on military bases. Muslims are forbidden to eat pork, and so some Afghans have begun saying that clearly the flu is passing from pigs to the foreigners then to Afghans. For them, there is one logical solution.
"They say that we should throw out all the foreigners," Raaid said.
Subscribe to Posts [Atom]
Post a Comment