BTW, they (public health folks) are getting a better grasp of how bad this swine flu is. They are placing it somewhere between the 1918 and the 1957 flu ~ and that’s pretty bad.
This is still NOT telling me WHY this is “bad”.
Don’t tell me it’s the “same” as 1918. 2009 is a LOT different from 1918. The virus can be the same, but the conditions around it are different. Heck, in 1918 the main reason people died was it led to PNEUMONIA; not the disease itself. Things are different now, for cleanliness, sterility, treatment; and all kinds of secondary issues are different too - such as food contamination and so on. We have refrigeration everywhere now, e.g.
Influenza - all of it - has been a killer by nature for centuries.
We spoiled people largely think of flu as a joke now, and something you just suffer through with a few pills. It CAN kill even the healthiest people, but advances have largely made that moot.
We’ll see. Not saying you can’t be cautious, but being paranoid is a waste of time and money.
Remember 1976? That was a joke and the hysterical “do-something” “solution” was what cost people lives.