Swine Flu name change: Change you can count on!

April 29, 2009 | Jim Vicevich | |

Tom Vilsak, former Governor of the hog capital of the world, Iowa, thinks a name change for the swine flu might be appropriate right now … how about H1N1. Why? Pig farmers of course. 

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-HYR8YYd7U

OK .. it’s not swine flu anymore … and its not a war on terror either, or enemy combatants. Change you can count on.

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Jim Vicevich

Jim is a veteran broadcaster and conservative/libertarian blogger with more than 25 years experience in TV and radio. Jim's was the long-term host of The Jim Vicevich Show on WTIC 1080 in Hartford from 2004 through 2019. Prior to radio, Jim worked as a business and financial reporter for NBC30 - the NBC owned TV station in Hartford - and as business editor at WFSB-TV in Hartford for 14 years while earning six Emmy nominations and three Telly Awards.

7 Comments

  1. Erik Blazynski on April 29, 2009 at 3:18 am

    Aren't flu outbreaks generally named after their place of origin?  Doesn't Mexican Flu  fit the bill?



  2. Eric on April 29, 2009 at 3:28 am

    Isn't this getting just a little bit crazy? We don't do swine flu anymore, terrorism is no longer terrorism, marriage is just another one of those passe traditions… this latest incarnation that we're calling an administration is so out of touch with America! Doh!



  3. ShadowWing Tronix on April 29, 2009 at 3:06 pm

    If great intellectual minds like Paris Hilton can't figure out that swine flu has nothing to do with pork, maybe he has a point. On his pencil.



  4. libertarian27 on April 30, 2009 at 7:07 am

    "It's ManBirdPig"

    ~Courtesy of SOS~



  5. hsatlof on May 1, 2009 at 7:38 am

    Hi Jim…

    So nice to meet you at Starbucks today… hope you enjoyed the Pikes Peek!  Obviously, when you go there enough the stress of coffee choice does not effect you!

    Funny that I ran into you and forgot to mention that I was going to call a few days ago but didn't have the number!  I came up with a great name for the swine flu… "Non-kosher flu"!  (a a jew, I think it is okay for me to say!) 

    Thanks for your opinions…

    ~Heather



  6. SoundOffSister on May 1, 2009 at 11:25 am

    The news media in Central Florida apparently hasn't gotten the memo yet.  It  is still referred to as swine flu here, but the news folks devote more words to explaning "but eating pork can't cause it" than they do explaning the issue.  So, all I know is I can eat lots of pork without fear.  What I should "fear", however,  may forever remain a mystery.



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