Too darn bad! Heh, I got ya. Oh yeah! I bet you all thought that I meant bird flu, or sars, or gay people getting free abortions or something.....
Well I didn't.
You see, I was drinking most of the day to avoid having to call my ex-fiance (just so you all know I was doing something you'd all be proud of), when I finally heard the big news: Toronto isn't all that full of plague (beyond yuppies).
The thing is, I wrote a response to someone's reactionary diary the other day, mentioning that the possiblility that the first few cases of bird flu occurring in the biggest North American city that actually pays for health care was pretty slim. Turns out I was right.
http://english.people.com.cn/200510/07/eng20051007_212977.html
Legionnaires. There you go, no avian flu. This wasn't the only article by the way, just the first that came up on google news.
So... AHEM.... I told you so. Dammit. This would mean nothing, and I wouldn't even have brought up such a trivial point if not for the fact that I actually had to live in this cold, vile city during Sars, so hearing people jump to stupid conclusions before any facts have come in kind of pissed me off a bit. If you all lived in a city this annoying, you wouldn't want to see people wearing surgical masks around Chinese people again either.
Now that being said, this is one of the most multi-cultural (if not the most) cities in the history of humanity, so chances are, when the end does reach North America, it'll hit here first.
Luckily.
Imagine if it hit a poor area in America... Now that's scary.... As poor as you are here, you can at least have the government pay to have you quarantined (but OHIP won't pay for your XBOX live, no matter how hard you try).
Hey, at least hockey started again. Right? RIGHT? ANYONE?!!!! Oh wait, I don't actually give a shit. Meh, I've got a sport that's always interesting....
American Politics!!!!