The Swine Flu is Coming for You!
I’ve been watching the news on the swine flu outbreak originating from Mexico, and was surprised to learn that worries over the swine flu are not new here in the U.S.
Check out these public service announcements from 1976 (the second one especially is somewhat disturbing… can anyone say panic?):
April 29th, 2009 at 2:00 am
I don’t remember the commercials, but I do remember reading about the Swine Flu vaccine debacle in 3-2-1 Contact’s 1970s retrospective in 1980.
Wow. That second PSA could really be just “insert disease here.” It’s nice and creepy.
April 29th, 2009 at 6:45 am
That second PSA is pretty creepy… especially this part: “…in California, Betty’s mother gave it to her best friend Dotty. But Dotty had a heart condition and she died. But before she died, Dotty gave it to her girlfriend, the mailman, the paperboy, and the vet when she went to pick up her chihuahua…”
And all along the female narrator sounds as if she is talking about unicorns. Creepy!