IIRC, this article was from Feb/March of this year. I don't have TV -- was it in the news back then?
The article is captioned (I leave the interpretation to others) "BJ News: Wednesday, February 2, 2005" and searching news.google.com for "february 2005" flu brings up a list of about a dozen links, some dated Feb 2005 and some reporting currently on events which happened in February of 2005. These links are not to TV news but to online editions of newspapers. One British paper questions our preparations, stating that 7,000 police officers had received special training by February 2005 for dealing with Bird Flu cases. Other articles related to actions taken by WHO and of reports of deaths in Southeast Asia, all in 2005.
"I also beg to differ that Kleenex, Scotch Tape, and Xerox are 'generic names.' "
I suspect he meant "used generically", which they are.
I have no suspicions of what he meant. I only know what he said. And it's wrong on that count and _many_ others.
I don't believe everything I read anywhere, even here.
:-> Good move. I say again that we should read and form our own judgments of who's the loonie.