Our local broadsheet in Singapore featured this beautiful world map today showing all the swine-flu countries and the number of cases in each. Buggerloads of arrows criss-crossing all over. Countries colour-coded based on the number of cases in each. The works.
Was my reaction one of sympathy for the many people suffering? One of concern that this nasty contagion spread no further? Awe at the power of modern medicine that has kept the number of deaths below hundred? Hell, no!
I shook my fist at the map and said…
“Bloody Madagascar!”