"Stop coughing on me!" says Vinny. "Gio's been coughing a lot. I think he may have picked up the swine flu."
And this proves a little bit of education, can go the wrong way.
"Did they talk about swine flu at school?" I ask.
"Yeah," says Vinny.
"What did they say?" I ask.
"I don't remember, that was a long time ago," Vinny says.
Two days ago is a long time for a seven year old I suppose.
Yet, even my kid, who seems oblivious to just about everything of concern, such as flushing the toilet and washing his hands, is paranoid about the swine flu. Oooops, I mean H1N1 Influenza A, the old technical name for swine flu, is back in style.
The name, H1N1 Influenza A, was adopted by the World Health Organization to save the lives of pigs. The swine flu name association was causing countries to ban pork and call for the murder of innocent pigs. The spread of H1N1 Influenza A, formerly known as swine flu, has nothing to do with pigs.
H1N1 is a combination of a pig, bird and human flu virus, but cannot be contracted by eating pork, that's what they are saying today, anyways.
"Phew!" say the pigs. "That was a close one."
