We all know that Hitler, who came to power in Germany in 1933, burned and cremated European Jews at extermination camps, in what came to be referred to as the Holocaust. Though the number of Jews killed remains subject of much controversy, the incident itself is supported by evidence.
The Holocaust has been used to demand compensation and formal apologies from the German people.
Today, we’ve also come to discover–through statements by senior officials at the World Health Organization (WHO) and other international organizations–that the H1N1 virus isn’t, after all, as threatening to human health as the WHO had made it seem. There is a vaccine to safeguard against it and a drug to treat infections.
It’s being said that some major pharmaceutical companies conspired with the WHO to exaggerate the danger posed by the virus, thus helping those companies generate unbelievably large profits.
Countries differed in their response to the virus, which first appeared in April 2009. Mexico, for one, imposed a curfew for one week and announced the state of emergency. At the other end of the spectrum, Poland didn’t allow a single dose of the anti-flu vaccine into the country.
Egypt’s response was unique. Our government decided to carry out a “pig holocaust,” burning the pigs alive, one after the other. It also resorted to pouring quicklime as a faster way to burn the pigs while they were on their feet.
Now that we know we’ve been misled, every official who had a role in that holocaust should apologize–first to the pigs, then to the people. The “pig holocaust” has interrupted an established system of garbage collection starting and ending with the pigs.
Every official in Egypt owes an apology for what the government has done over the last summer, though it might be already too late to make such an apology.
Translated from the Arabic Edition.
