Week 15: Swine Flu Pandemic

Just yesterday the Swine Flu has reached phase 5 making it a pandemic. The swine flu is a type of influenza that originated from swine (pigs). Just in the US, there has been 109 cases of the flu. New York has 50 cases and Texas has 26. There has been one death in Texas of an infant. There have been 160 deaths in Mexico, the virus is believed to have spread to 2,498 people.

In my opinion, the government and state officials should have acted much sooner on this growing flu. By March 9, the first symptoms were showing up in the Mexico. If we would have realized how contagious this is, there would have been many more precautions made. With this rising flu, the only thing we can do is wash our hands and not shake hands with other people. we must be extremely careful about what we touch.

Week 14 Paraguayan President

Recent news has come out that Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo admitted he fathered a child when he was still a Roman Catholic bishop. He had served 10 years as a bishop, and during those years he had a child. The child is two years old now. As for what the church thinks, the Vatican first rejected him for layman's status, by suspending him from priestly duties. They went on saying that, in fact, he was still a bishop because ordination is a lifelong sacrament seen by the church.

In my opinion, since he had an affair during his reign as a bishop, he should be excommunicated from the church. The church preaches abstinence, and bishops are a voice in the church, he is going against the church. While a bishops personal life and church life should be seperate, he has gone against the church. I don't think anyone wants to have a bishop who preaches then doesn't follow it.

Week 12: What would you do?

The "What Yould You Do?" show puts people into difficult situations to see how they will react. One of them showed a gay couple eating in a restaurant. The couple showed some affection for each other, and made some people upset. Most of the people were quiet until another actor started to voice his opinion. Some people said they didn't mind while others said it was inappropriate. But once the person did agree it was wrong, when the cameras came out he said he had no problem with the situation. This person changed his mind in front of the cameras.

I think this conflict is a big problem. There are more homosexual people in the world than there used to be. I think this problem is taken out of hand in our state because we don't see many gay people around. I also think even though they are around, they try to hide the fact that they are gay so they won't get made fun of. I think people need to change their outlook on gay people because if someone close to you is gay, you probably wouldn't make fun of them. The problem is that this is now becoming the "norm" and you can't stop it. People need to not blame people for their sexuality because there is no changing it.