swine flu
The media and their terrible 24 hour news cycle have locked their jaws onto this Swine Influenza that has hit this season. Anyway, just in case anyone is buying into the hype:
All deaths reported so far as in Mexico, which despite lots of growth still has a substandard health care system.
Confirmed cases in other places in North America and Europe have already gotten better after a couple days home.
It's just a normal flu. Normal flu even kills people every year. This is nothing like the Spanish Influenza pandemic. If it were the case, we would be seeing such strong and lethal symptoms in the victims. So far, it's just a flu. You get nauseated, achey, tired, etc. The flu.
The media outlets are always sharp to call out a plague (good ratings) and they would love to say this is untreatable and viciously deadly, but it seems to be pretty well treated with Tamiflu. Nobody wants to be the person who said 'don't panic' when it was an actual pandemic, but given what we know so far and the total tame nature of this flu, I'd have to say the overabundance of concern is unfounded. So if you were panicking and canceling any meeting you had with swine, calm down. It's going to be fine.
All deaths reported so far as in Mexico, which despite lots of growth still has a substandard health care system.
Confirmed cases in other places in North America and Europe have already gotten better after a couple days home.
It's just a normal flu. Normal flu even kills people every year. This is nothing like the Spanish Influenza pandemic. If it were the case, we would be seeing such strong and lethal symptoms in the victims. So far, it's just a flu. You get nauseated, achey, tired, etc. The flu.
The media outlets are always sharp to call out a plague (good ratings) and they would love to say this is untreatable and viciously deadly, but it seems to be pretty well treated with Tamiflu. Nobody wants to be the person who said 'don't panic' when it was an actual pandemic, but given what we know so far and the total tame nature of this flu, I'd have to say the overabundance of concern is unfounded. So if you were panicking and canceling any meeting you had with swine, calm down. It's going to be fine.