Brief Thoughts On Swine Flu
You have to be pretty well insulated from the rest of the world to have not heard about Swine Flu…over and over and over again.
The word “pandemic” has been bandied about, schools have been shut down, some states have canceled all high school sporting events, Joe Biden is telling people not to get on airplanes—is it possible we’re overreacting a little bit?
For all of the talk and panic, do you realize that, worldwide, only 13 people have died? Now don’t get me wrong, every is valuable, and the deaths of those 13 people are a tragedy, but should we all be freaking out about this considering that the regular version flu (the one that we’re not worried about) kills 20,000 people a year in the United States alone?
It seems to me that, theoretically, this could turn out to be a huge deal, but it will have to get exponentially worse before it is.
Surely that realization will prevent the panic-mongering of the media (and even our VP), right?
When pigs fly.
The word “pandemic” has been bandied about, schools have been shut down, some states have canceled all high school sporting events, Joe Biden is telling people not to get on airplanes—is it possible we’re overreacting a little bit?
For all of the talk and panic, do you realize that, worldwide, only 13 people have died? Now don’t get me wrong, every is valuable, and the deaths of those 13 people are a tragedy, but should we all be freaking out about this considering that the regular version flu (the one that we’re not worried about) kills 20,000 people a year in the United States alone?
It seems to me that, theoretically, this could turn out to be a huge deal, but it will have to get exponentially worse before it is.
Surely that realization will prevent the panic-mongering of the media (and even our VP), right?
When pigs fly.
