Obviously nothing I just said is true. None of this ever happened but I have spent the last weeks listening to the horrible "pandemic" that has gripped the nation and the world. Now I have already seen News stations giving advice on what to do when the NEXT swine flu outbreak occurs. There never was a pandemic. The World Health Organization pandemic alert system can be deceiving. When they raised the world from phase 4 to phase 5, you don't know how many people I heard talk about how bad it must be getting. But if you look at what this rating system means, a phase 5 means a pandemic is IMMINENT! Meaning we don't have a pandemic on our hands...
Another thing to note... we have drugs that reduce the severity of swine flu. Tamiflu and Rolenza are effective if taken within the first 48 hours of infection.
I understand that Swine flu has killed several people, and is definitely an issue that we should be dealing with. My problem is that everytime something like this happens... I hear about how the world is gonna end. What are we gonna do when we lose 20% of our population and stores start to close? What are we going to do when the schools close? All public places are gonna be shut down! BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH. I'm sick of hearing these things and then the News completely forgets about the "end of the world virus" to talk about our week of bad weather.
While it annoys me, I suppose I would prefer that we be overprepared than underprepared and if something serious did happen. I would think that our little freak outs over something like this will only help us prepare for something that actually become a very serious problem. I just think that by the time something serious DOES happen its gonna be the little boy who cried wolf situation (or at least for me), while the majority of the population seems to be suckered in to running to Sams and Costcos (who probably make a killing in these situations) and stocking up for the next giant disaster.
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