Fernando Mexia, the pen.
Latinos have so much religious heritage and sense of humor. Fortunately, the "fear of God" is offset by a mocking way of understanding reality that allows us to joke about almost anything. Moreover, we specialize in sharpening comic dramas and swine flu (A or H1N1 or as later come to be called) that threatens to exterminate bedbugs as a great material for mockery.
"The crisis first flu now ... looks like the apocalypse," said a Mexican housekeeper in a street survey on television this week. The finmundismo was contagious like a virus among the population, put to death, named the phenomenon as apuercalipsis. At the end of the day is less fatalistic imagine the biblical four horsemen riding on horses pigs that they throw the espumaracos mouth. At least we secured the banter at the Last Judgement.
In line with the smiles that hide behind masks disturbing masks, many have tuned to downplay the matter, began to proliferate on the Internet and humorous comments dozens of photos, drawings and the occasional video recounting the history of this pig flu.
The website offers possible origins of the virus beyond laboratory analysis. A picture is worth a thousand words they say. In this struggle are the already well-known child licking the snout of the pig and the bumbling Homer Simpson, whose history of disasters fit the profile of responsible spark a pandemic, even in fiction.
I also have conspiracy theories to explain this descent into hell of mucus, dry cough and high fever.
The paranoia of the group pointed to the U.S. government, as always, is the perfect target for Machiavellian speculation. In this line we say that the flu is a covert biological attack produced by the world power that would be involved in the ejéricito, pharmaceutical companies and to the Republican Party in an attempt to derail Obama.
There are those who believe that Mexican drug cartels launched the virus, others believe it was Al Qaeda, and have read charges against the producers of beef and chicken which they allegedly tried to ruin their rivals in the pig sector.
Others say that the flu was created just to kill Mexicans or it takes some kind of anti-Hispanic component (up to now the dead are all of Latin origin).
Beyond the argument is based on a fit model smokescreen. From this point of view, or H1N1 flu would be a plot to distract public opinion most important issues as the economic crisis and climate change.
The truth is still investigating how the outbreak was initiated and the exact composition of the virus to generate an appropriate medical response. It also seems certain that this flu is not a matter of pigs is more, the infections are occurring in reverse: a Canadian cross spread to their herd .
The apuercalipsis was particularly welcomed by artists such as JR. Mora and others who recorded with audacity the misnamed swine threat.
No lack of online game developers like Swinefighter fulminate consisting viruses with pig face with a hypodermic needle while hovering over the planet wildly. In a week this "Matapuerca" received over 600,000 visits. Another contribution worth mentioning in this context are homemade music videos on YouTube multiply. Cumbia such as influenza or influenza rap.
The effect pork arrived in Mexico to the point that according to some reports infiltrated sanitary precautions in the hit soap opera and now Carlos Alberto Hernandez and Esperanza Ramirez Adelaide on duty have to replace kisses on the lips by other acts of love to avoid that actors can infect each other.
The disease has been very prolific in terms of jokes , banter and joke, most artistic expression of the genius of the average citizen.
"Did you hear that Mexico has become a world power?" Reads a joke. "When you sneeze, the whole planet is sick."
"For a normal flu, we atchís, but for a swine flu, we atchoiiiink".
"Doctor, my husband eats like a pig, do you think swine flu is contagious?".
"What farmers sow? Terror ".
"They say everyone is quiet in the U.S. because of swine flu can not come from Mexico. It is safe, the border does not let nothing, absolutely nothing. "
"I think I have swine flu. I have a sudden urge to eat bacon and pig's snout. "
Do not miss a good dose of humor to more serious things always remain the official bodies.
