Posts Tagged ‘flu’

I don’t want to minimize the potential threat of the swine flu, but I’ve been trying to figure out what the big deal is.  We’re being told that it’s a “pandemic” and that we should avoid riding public transportation.  In Phoenix, a kid was diagnosed with swine flu – after he was recovered and fine (he was never hospitalized) but they have closed the school for seven days. Really?   There are probably now going to be a wave of schools closing.

So why the alarm?

According to the CDC, there are typically 20,000 deaths a year in the United States attributed to the common flu.  Given that there has only been one reported death in the U.S. from swine flu, I think we might be focusing on the wrong threat.

But if you were to watch the news or go online, you’d think the world was ending. Just look here, here, here and here for starters.

I’m just sayin’, I don’t get it.