Warm and fuzzies...

... I am not normally one for apocalyptic outlooks on the future, but lately my spidey senses have been tingling and it seems that this whole Swine Flu thing might be a prelude to the things to come.

- I don't figure that crazy leaders in far off lands and going to nuke us into extinction (they aren't bold / stupid enough to really pull that one off).
- I don't figure that global warming will kill us off (we are too adaptable as a species and while the world might not be the nicest place, we will figure out how adapt to what ever changes we have wrought upon it)

But pig flu - or a version of some air borne transmittable virus...that sounds about right. At some point a superbug is going to reach up and grab us all by the warm and fuzzies and we won't be fast enough to do anything about it.

Oh, it might not get everyone, but there are 7 billion of us on this planet, and we like to travel around - alot. That is a recipe for disaster. If the pandemic of 1918 (with a relatively stationary population) can wipe out 50 million people, what will a superbug that can travel in all directions at once be able to do?

I had always thought that humans were the masters of adaptability. That we could use our intellect to work our way out of any problem....but a problem as large / small as a microbial infection? This might be one of those things beyond out abilities in the time we will have to deal with it properly.

Now I think i will go take care of my warm and mostly fuzzies and think of happier thoughts...