My secretary came in and said disturbingly: "There is a pig outside that wants to see you." "So what's new? I have pigs coming in everyday to see me," I said. "This is a real pig," she said. "Are there any real pigs left in the country? Didn't the government get rid of them all?" I asked. "I don't know! All I know is that there is a pig outside that insists to see you," she said. "Well, let him in," I told her. Before I finished my sentence, the pig stormed into my office and yelled at me: "You guys owe us an apology for the genocide you commit against us." "Calm down a bit so that we can talk. Would you like some lemon juice?" I offered. "I didn't risk coming here to drink lemon. I am talking about genocide," he said furiously. I said: "Show some respect or I will end this meeting." "Did you guys show any respect to us? Did you respect God's creatures?" he slammed at me. I said: "You make it sound as if it was we who did the Holocaust." "Well, you did! Only to us pigs! You tried to eliminate us, though we Egyptian pigs are a different breed from the other pigs of the world," he said. I said: "But you should know that we were trying to protect the people from swine flu." The pig replied: "You make of yourself a laughing stock now just like your government did. Who said H1N1is eliminated by killing pigs?"
"The whole world said so," I told him. He said: "Nonsense! Why didn't other countries get rid of their pigs, then? How long will you be so ignorant? The elimination of any disease is by the preventive actions that are set by the World Health Organization, which did not include mass killing of pigs."
I didn't know what to say, for it is true that the World Health Organization did not talk about any killing of pigs. The pig went on to say: "Now you have H1N1in Egypt. Where did it come from? Did it come from us pigs? Your brutal massacre did not prevent the arrival of the epidemic to our beloved Egypt, which is our country as much as it is yours. It came from human beings like you. Will you kill them, too?" I said: "We really do owe you an apology. Fortunately, it seems our good government was not able to eliminate the whole breed, because here you are standing in front of me. Now you will be able to reproduce."
"We are threatened with extinction," he said. "Why?" I asked. He said: "You now carry the virus, and you can give it to us. You are now the source of danger, not us pigs. So we decided to kill the human beings in order to protect ourselves. Isn't that an ingenious solution like that of your government?"
"But that would be unfair," I said. He said: "You tried to eliminate us pigs though we did not carry the virus, but you don't want us to eliminate you though you do carry it. What logic is that?" "So what do you suggest," I asked. "To kill you so that we get rid of the disease and - more importantly - of your ignorance and of your government's ingenuity that are more hazardous than that flu," he said.
