Wondering through the flu

Today I wonder...

Since I am feeling under the weather ( where did that term even come from? Hmmm..) I decided I should explore the cause of the common flu and maybe get a lil insight on the culprit that's messin with my head. I feel like my head has been converted into a water catchment area and if I did a headstand (hehe.. Sofia!), all the water would rest on the upper part of my skull and eventual splash out through my head! Sighh.. all the SAW images have rewired my thinking. Everything has potential to be turned into a gore fest!

so here's my half hearted research :-

What causes influenza?

The flu is caused by three types (strains) of viruses - influenza

A, B and C. Type A is responsible for the deadly influenza pandemics (worldwide epidemics) that strike every 10 to 40 years, whereas type B causes smaller, more localized outbreaks. Type C is less common and causes only mild symptoms. The influenza virus is generally passed from person to person by airborne transmission (i.e., sneezing or coughing). But, the virus can also live for a short time on objects -- such as doorknobs, pens, pencils, keyboards, telephone receivers, and eating or drinking utensils. Therefore, it may also be spread by touching something that has been handled by someone infected with the virus and then touching your own mouth, nose, or eyes Influenza virus is spread by inhaling droplets that have been coughed or sneezed out by an infected person or by having direct contact with an infected person's secretions. Handling household articles that have been in contact with an infected person or an infected person's secretions may sometimes spread the disease.

I guess I come under Type B eh? or Is it Type C? Sigh.. whatever type I am, It better end soon. It's disrupting my already scattered thinking process.

In other news...

Army Major goes on killing rampage at Texas military base

A US army major killed 11 people and wounded at least 30 others in a bloody rampage at Fort Hood military base in Texas. The only shooter is still alive according to the base commander and is in hospital after undergoing surgery for his wounds. 

Apparently the shooter is an army psychiatrist named Major Nidal Malik Hasan. So immediately, our minds race to fill in the gaps - 'He must be planted there to kill from the inside because ALL MUSLIMS are terrorists and blood thirsty'. But look at the facts, his cousin said that Major Nidal's worst nightmare is to be deployed to Iraq. And we must ask ourselves, why? Why do American Muslims feel so frightened to serve their country; country in which they were born in, and grew up in? A place which built their value system, defined them. Doesn't it make you wonder, that maybe Non-Muslims from America just maybe fueling the terror by their prejudice and discriminatory ways. IF Major Nidal wasn't treated with accusing eyes and discrimination, maybe the psychiatrist wouldn't turn psycho. Afterall, he was human too. I'm not justifying his act, I'm merely wondering about what could the cause be.

Makes you also wonder about the life of Muslim Americans in America and the Defense Industry now huh? I hope they highlight that point, rather than the fact that he was Muslim.


By the way....

I read through alot of different ideas of where the phrase came from but I like this the best!

Under the Weather - the phrase under the weather originally had nothing to do with weather. The correct phrase is under the wether. It refers to the fact that female sheep resist the efforts of the castrated male sheep (Wether) to mount them. When the female is so ill that she cannot resist the wether's attentions, she is literally under the wether.

Doncha stop your wondering, child?