The Ex-Parrot

I’m not the only one who thought that we had stumbled into Monty Python territory on hearing the news that a parrot had died of bird flu in the UK. CuriousHamster over at A Big Stick and a Small Carrot also made the connection. And he quite rightly points out the note of hysteria that seems to have got sounded on stories about bird flu. There’s a difference between being informed and panicking unnecessarily. The UK press and media seem to have concluded there’s more money to be made in stoking the fires of panic.