Influenza is a common disease. The total number of cases of this swine flu strain in the entire country is less than 100, and there are no reports whatsoever yet of any cases in the US which are causing life-threating complications - which is a more benign picture than most influenza outbreaks, and indicates that this strain of influenza is not unusually virulent - at least as of now.
Seems that the O folks and their MSM lackeys are overdoing this swine flu thing deliberately for pure political purposes - which could be connected to their drive for nationalized health care.
I agree, it’s being used as a Trojan Horse for nationalized health care. And the flu comes around annually, so it is common. But from time to time a widespread strain happens to be deadly; the Spanish Lady of 1918 is best known — it killed many more worldwide than had died in WWI — but the 19th century had a series of killer strains, and one outbreak in the 1970s (could have been 1975, it happened during the Ford administration, and Carter supporters pissed and moaned about it and blamed Ford for supposed mishandling of the vaccine program) killed a bunch. Quite a few die each year, from influenza, despite availability of vaccines and medications. Kinda puts the AIDS “pandemic” into perspective.