Flu?

So, of course anyone that is living on planet earth and as any sort of connection to media knows about the "Swine Flu". Last night David and I had a discussion over the relevance of all this media coverage. While everyone states over and over "We do not want to cause a panic", and then 5 minutes later there is a NEW, LIVE, BREAKING NEWS Report about the next case.



I swear, I am having sort of a "Boy who cried wolf" reaction to all this. Do I believe there is currently a bad strain of flu going around? Yep! Do I believe it has the possibility to kill people? Yep! Do I feel the overpowering media coverage is necessary? Nope! The "regular" flu kills 100's of people every year, that is a known fact. Even if you get a flu shot you run a high chance of still contacting a strain that is not covered by the available shot. It's ridiculous!! I think that this entire thing is getting blown WAY out of proportion! Now all the little kids are getting scared, because let's face it, unless they are blind and deaf they have bound to hear about it by now. Last night we had pork chops for dinner and the kids had questions if they could get the "Pig Flu" from eating it. UGH!!



In the past 10 years we have been bombarded with so many things like this...MRSA, SARS, Bird Flu, Lyme Disease, West Nile Virus, etc. Every time we are warned about the immanent Pandemic. Every year our kids start bathing themselves from fingernail to elbow with Hand Sanitizer every 5 minutes or get scared to go outside for the fear of getting something terrible. Every year the media blows the coverage all to hell and then in a month or so nothing. In my opinion of whatever is going on right now is REALLY THAT serious and that epic of pandemic proportions why aren't schools being shut down, why isn't everyone being hand delivered surgical masks by the CDC, why aren't the borders being totally closed, why isn't any and all air travel and all cruises etc. being shut down? Hmmm....like I said is this just another case of "the boy that cried wolf" what happens when it REALLY is something to be scared shitless over??