I can't say I'm overly concerned about the "Swine flu". Not that I doubt it exists, but I think its effects have been blown vastly out of proportion by the media in order to sell newspapers. So far there are... what? 7 dead? Not many considering how the normal influensa annually kills between 200 000 to 300 000 people worldwide. Yeah, wow, we're clearly dealing with a dangrous pandemic here, alll right. Or, more likely, the global media must truly be desperate to sell newspapers.
I'm usually Little Miss Apocalypse Crier (rising gas prices, then the economy falling apart, scared the CHRIST out of me), but for some reason swine flu isn't worrying me at all, yet. *shrug*
Sounds like you might enjoy my pal Ted's Youtube channel.
20 laboratory confirmed deaths from Influenza A H1N1 (swine flu), 101 suspected deaths.
How many people died from traffic accidents in that amount of time?
I don't know, but a lot.
42,636 in 2004 in the US
OK. Well, according to pandemicflu.gov, 36,000 people per year in the U.S. die of
regular flu, and the most recent influenza
pandemic (1968) caused about 34,000 U.S. deaths.
And yet, Biden is discouraging people from using public transportation?
Seems to me driving is the more likely option to turn lethal.
Anyway, decent illustration of why I'm not worried too much right now. There's pretty much always something 'out there' that could kill me. If I thought about each and every one of them all the time I'd never leave the house.