# Has anyone else heard any crap about the swine flu being a sign of the Apocalypse? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 30, 2009, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-heard-any-crap-about-the-swine-flu-being-a-sign-of-the-apocalypse/494880 "2009-04-30T19:59:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2009, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-heard-any-crap-about-the-swine-flu-being-a-sign-of-the-apocalypse/494880/1 "2009-04-30T19:59:11Z")
My despised older brother just sent me some glurge to that affect; he also sees President Obama and the current economic crisis as being two other horsemen. The possible flu epidemic is what he’s calling Pestilence; the recession is Famine; and Obama is War (because he supports abortion rights). He is, of course, an idiot. But he’s also caused me to wonder if others have heard similar lunacies recently. ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2009, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-heard-any-crap-about-the-swine-flu-being-a-sign-of-the-apocalypse/494880/2 "2009-04-30T20:13:58Z")
No, this is the first. But I’ve been expecting to hear something like that from the whack-a-loons since the first swine flu stories appeared. ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2009, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-heard-any-crap-about-the-swine-flu-being-a-sign-of-the-apocalypse/494880/3 "2009-04-30T20:21:34Z")
So, what was Death in this tableau of crazy? If I were a betting man, I’d pick GAY MARRIAGE!!11!! because, well, it had to go somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2009, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-heard-any-crap-about-the-swine-flu-being-a-sign-of-the-apocalypse/494880/4 "2009-04-30T21:00:48Z")
I heard that it is all due to illegal Mexican immigrants. Apparantly they are crossing the border illegally into New Zealand. ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2009, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-heard-any-crap-about-the-swine-flu-being-a-sign-of-the-apocalypse/494880/5 "2009-04-30T21:15:18Z")
Skald, how did you and he come from the same family? ---
**Author:** ![LilShieste](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9f8e36/32.png) [@LilShieste](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilShieste)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2009, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-heard-any-crap-about-the-swine-flu-being-a-sign-of-the-apocalypse/494880/6 "2009-04-30T21:30:22Z")
My mom has a neighbor that is convinced the swine flu is a government-engineered virus that was used to target the “poor Mexicans”. Also, that the U.N. is using it to kill off 90% of the world’s population, as outlined in their charter. I’m serious. ---
**Author:** ![jk1245](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/49beb7/32.png) [@jk1245](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jk1245)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2009, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-heard-any-crap-about-the-swine-flu-being-a-sign-of-the-apocalypse/494880/7 "2009-04-30T21:44:14Z")
I haven’t heard this (though I’m not surprised), but I have been waiting for the conspiracy theories to surface. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2009, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-heard-any-crap-about-the-swine-flu-being-a-sign-of-the-apocalypse/494880/8 "2009-04-30T21:48:45Z")
> [@Lamar\_Mundane](#): > > I heard that it is all due to illegal Mexican immigrants. Apparantly they are crossing the border illegally into New Zealand. And into England. Man those Mexicans are great swimmers. The real conspiracy is why aren’t they always winning the gold at the Olympics? The white man is keeping the brown man down. I can see Death being gay marriage because once they start marrying then everyone will become gay and no one will have kids and that will be the death of the human race. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2009, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-heard-any-crap-about-the-swine-flu-being-a-sign-of-the-apocalypse/494880/9 "2009-04-30T21:50:12Z")
> [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](#): > > Skald, how did you and he come from the same family? I’m the odd man out, not he. There are persons in my family who think my wife needs an exorcism because she has some mental issues, and at least one person who insists that her meds are the problem. My brother is also fond of boasting about all the gays he has helped turn straight in reparative therapy at his church. And his last visit he tickled my stepdaughter until she was weeping despite her begging him to stop. So you get a picture, she’s five foot nothing; he’s over six feet. If he’s ever found murdered, I am likely to be arrested no matter whether I had anything to do with it, because my younger sisters will both assume I did it and, when questioned by the police, each make up an alibi with me without consulting the other, thus making me look guilty. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2009, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-heard-any-crap-about-the-swine-flu-being-a-sign-of-the-apocalypse/494880/10 "2009-04-30T21:54:45Z")
> [@LilShieste](#): > > My mom has a neighbor that is convinced the swine flu is a government-engineered virus that was used to target the “poor Mexicans”. > > Also, that the U.N. is using it to kill off 90% of the world’s population, as outlined in their charter. > > I’m serious. So does that that [Ban Ki-moon](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ban_Ki-moon) is actually [Ra’s al Ghul](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ra%27s_al_Ghul), or is he only Ubu? ---
**Author:** ![Bruce\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bruce\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bruce_Wayne)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2009, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-heard-any-crap-about-the-swine-flu-being-a-sign-of-the-apocalypse/494880/11 "2009-04-30T22:03:05Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > I’m the odd man out, not he. There are persons in my family who think my wife needs an exorcism because she has some mental issues, and at least one person who insists that her meds are the problem. > > My brother is also fond of boasting about all the gays he has helped turn straight in reparative therapy at his church. And his last visit he tickled my stepdaughter until she was weeping despite her begging him to stop. So you get a picture, she’s five foot nothing; he’s over six feet. > > If he’s ever found murdered, I am likely to be arrested no matter whether I had anything to do with it, because my younger sisters will both assume I did it and, when questioned by the police, each make up an alibi with me without consulting the other, thus making me look guilty. I bet your family’s Thanksgiving dinners are fun. I have never heard the swine flu/apocalypse connection either. Can’t wait. :rolleyes: As if 2012 wasn’t enough. ---
**Author:** ![LilShieste](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9f8e36/32.png) [@LilShieste](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilShieste)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2009, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-heard-any-crap-about-the-swine-flu-being-a-sign-of-the-apocalypse/494880/12 "2009-04-30T22:04:38Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > So does that that [Ban Ki-moon](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ban_Ki-moon) is actually [Ra’s al Ghul](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ra%27s_al_Ghul), or is he only Ubu? Ban has probably received a vaccine at some point in his life, which means he doesn’t really have any control over his actions. Why, you ask? Well, because the government put their mind-control device in the vaccine, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2009, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-heard-any-crap-about-the-swine-flu-being-a-sign-of-the-apocalypse/494880/13 "2009-04-30T22:37:35Z")
At work today I mentioned in passing that I plan to re-read The Stand in honor of the swine flu and another co-worker mentioned she read something about a group of people who do see it as the end of the world. But she couldn’t remember where she saw it. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2009, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-heard-any-crap-about-the-swine-flu-being-a-sign-of-the-apocalypse/494880/14 "2009-04-30T22:46:56Z")
Well, according to the talking heads on tv, swine flu is… **OHMYGAWDIT’STHEAPOCALYPSEENDOFCIVILIZATIONANDWE’REALLGONNADIEAGONIZINGDEATHS 111!!!111** flu. ---
**Author:** ![Words\_on\_the\_Interweb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b19c9b/32.png) [@Words\_on\_the\_Interweb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Words_on_the_Interweb)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2009, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-heard-any-crap-about-the-swine-flu-being-a-sign-of-the-apocalypse/494880/15 "2009-04-30T22:51:55Z")
Someone posted a comment to a Seattle Times article about swine flu and HIV being signs of the “End Times”. I’d link it for posterity, but there are way too many articles on the topic, each with their own comments section, and I don’t think my brain cells can stand another slog through them all, heh. One of the other popular theories is swine flu was manufactured by pharmaceutical companies so they can sell us a “cure”. ---
**Author:** ![anu-la1979](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/47e85d/32.png) [@anu-la1979](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anu-la1979)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2009, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-heard-any-crap-about-the-swine-flu-being-a-sign-of-the-apocalypse/494880/16 "2009-04-30T22:57:48Z")
I work with people who think the CIA controls the weather, dairy is a conspiracy to eradicate black people and I won’t even go into who they think caused 9/11. I am not making this up, I swear. Swine flu? I’m laughing. “Dog flu” is where it’s at over here in Surreality. _I’m telling you Anu, the dogs are who they’re going to go after next. See, because we’re more in contact with dogs than pigs. This was just an experiment._ ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2009, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-heard-any-crap-about-the-swine-flu-being-a-sign-of-the-apocalypse/494880/17 "2009-04-30T23:01:13Z")
The Four Hoarse Men of the Aporkalypse. The opening of the Seventh Squeal. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2009, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-heard-any-crap-about-the-swine-flu-being-a-sign-of-the-apocalypse/494880/18 "2009-04-30T23:31:16Z")
Limbaugh thinks it’s a [conspiracy](http://mediamatters.org/countyfair/200904270036). ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2009, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-heard-any-crap-about-the-swine-flu-being-a-sign-of-the-apocalypse/494880/19 "2009-04-30T23:34:49Z")
> [@Duke](#): > > So, what was Death in this tableau of crazy? Shouldn’t be too hard; just find the guy who always speaks in CAPITAL LETTERS. :smack: Wait a sec… that’s half the internet. Never mind. ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2009, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-heard-any-crap-about-the-swine-flu-being-a-sign-of-the-apocalypse/494880/20 "2009-04-30T23:36:55Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > If he’s ever found murdered, I am likely to be arrested no matter whether I had anything to do with it, because my younger sisters will both assume I did it and, when questioned by the police, each make up an alibi with me without consulting the other, thus making me look guilty. Maybe you should mention this problem to them now, and ‘jokingly’ come up with an all purpose alibi suitable for easy memorization. It would be a nice topic you could chat about while you clean your shotgun. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-heard-any-crap-about-the-swine-flu-being-a-sign-of-the-apocalypse/494880.md?page=2)