Swine flu pandemic… 28 UK cases…
*cough, sneeze* I think I may be breaking out in rashers…
Now, I know that any form of flu can be dangerous for the young, elderly, immune compromised or those with respiratory problems. And I know that this swine flu is a nasty one. I also believe that one day some virus will adapt to resist all our medicines and will become the pandemic that we fear and millions will die, if not billions. But 28 cases does not make a pandemic.
So, compare that with 2 women dying every week, 104 every year. That’s this year, next year and the year after. This is something that targets women and kills with terrifying regularity.
Not large enough numbers for you?
Try 100 women affected every day. That makes 36,500 every year. Now is that a pandemic yet? Are those numbers big enough to frighten you?
Yet these are not diseases as such, they’re not caused by a virus or bacteria. These cases do need medical help, and there is a long recovery if the woman survives.
104 women every year are killed by their partner or ex-partner. The disease that is pandemic here is Domestic Violence.
100 women every day are victims of Sexual Violence and that’s just in the UK. Globally it must be so huge that I don’t even want to think about the numbers involves. Yet, where is the news? Where is the panic? Where is the outrage?
Oh, there isn’t any, no-one cares and life goes on as normal because it’s just women isn’t it……
Source: Shock, Horror - From the Foot of Witchy’s Stairs.
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Comment by Evelina — May 7, 2009 @ 11:46 am
Hi Evelina - sorry but I do moderate all comments and sometimes the blog doesn’t tell you that! Thanks for dropping in.
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