Less than effective measures.

Killing pigs to ward off the "swine flu," even if you bow east as you do it, seems to The Doser to be like refusing to speak Spanish in order to ward off the Spanish flu. After urging us all to wear masks, the governments are now announcing that masks are useless since the virus is so small that it can easily pass through the mask. All just shows how ready we are to try superstition when we are facing difficulties of unknown dimension.