When Science Meets Stupid #1: Swine Flu Parties

According to an article by BBC news, people are hosting swine flu parties or intentionally coming into contact with people who have H1N1.

The reasoning is, like children chicken pox parties, they will infer resistance to the flu while having to suffer through the "mild" form, before it becomes stronger in the winter.

If you are willing to go lick someone with swine flu, you are an idiot for the following reasons:

1. If you've had the flu and you've had the chicken pox, you know the flu is much worse. Tired, coughing, sore throat, nausea, congestion outweighs itchy and sitting in a bath tub of oatmeal.
2. Although both chicken pox and swine flu are highly contagious, the risk of swine flu mutation is much higher and much lesser people have immunity. In other words, H1N1 spreads incredibly fast. Our best line of defense right now is currently containment. Putting out a Craigslist ad of swine flu suffers defeats this purpose.
3. More people infected = more risk of mutation = Resident Evil virus = we all dead
4. Chicken pox rarely kills and if so, people fall into one of the groups: immunocompromised, elderly or children. However, those susceptible for H1N1 largely falls within people 25 and younger, not the oldheads. Which means, you are next.
5. "If swine flu spreads of control, who cares right? We have a vaccine." First of all, the vaccine may or may not work, like the regular flu vaccine. It's a guessing game. Also, if you are young and healthy, you will have to wait behind the pregnant, the old and the babies. By that time, you might be dead. (Seriously.)

So people, moral of the story is please don't try to get the flu. Or please get it. Maybe it will cleanse your gene pool.