Aside from winning the Grumpy Traveller award for the world’s most staggeringly obvious headline, this BBC story officially kills swine flu off as a bogeyman.
It seems as though some people are arranging parties to enable them to catch swine flu before it mutates into something last seen on 28 Weeks Later.
This, to me, is the jump the shark moment. Swine flu has officially become ridiculous rather than Dustin-Hoffman-chasing-a-monkey scary. There has always been the suspicion that people have been taking it a bit too seriously. It’s alright chaps – you can take the masks off now. They only made you look silly anyway.
I think the Daily Mash summed it up quite brilliantly in their spoof story from late April…
Tags: BBC, Daily Mash, health, swine flu