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Most people are thick
Comment by Jimmy The Owl — October 18, 2009 @ 12:57 pm
Because when they scaremonger people with things like swine flu or bird flu they are selling more and more papers. As you have said 12,000 people die from normal flu but they wont mention that because that make swine flu look less scary.
Comment by Ben — October 19, 2009 @ 12:02 pm
Yup, the government want to kill us all off but don’t worry, Batman will save us.
Comment by Trouble — October 22, 2009 @ 5:45 pm
People get this all wrong, all the time.
They weren’t scared because they thought it would kill everyone, they were scared because they had no idea what the hell it was and how to treat it.
Comment by feral_munchlax — October 24, 2009 @ 9:11 pm
Ok, I will answer this appropriately, and I can asnwer this with authority, as I am actually an expert in epidemics and pandemics. What people don’t realize is the fear of swing/brid flu is not the flu as it is, but rather what it could be. The spanish influenza was a mutated strain of bird flu (so theorized) that became airborn and also became more virulent. The threat is not so much what these flus are now, but the danger that one of these animal vector flu’s will mutate like the Spanish influenza did, become A. completely airborn B. incredibly virulent and C. an indiscriminate killer, i.e. kills adults as readily as the young and the old. The problem is they have to start taking precautions every time a possibly virulent strain erupts. If they don’t and they wait until it mutates then it will have spread so fast and so far by then that any measures they take will be nil and void. If a superflu occurs again, with transit as it is the deathtoll will be in the millions. These are just precautions that have to be taken to try and control the damage when a new superflu goes epidemic. And I do assure you, its a matter of when not if. As for the symptoms of swing flu, they are the same as the regular flu. I don’t understand people asking for the symptoms os swine flu, they are the same as regular flu, and you have to go to the doctor to get tested to see if you have the regular flu or the swine flu. It is a good idea to get tested, because the swine flu is slightly more dangerous than the regularly flu, and you will also wish to seek treatment because the symptoms are just worse and more miserable in general.
Comment by telefantastical — October 25, 2009 @ 3:01 pm
I think it’s mostly the media coverage that is creating panic among people. When people eventually began to realise that regular flu kills that number of people every year it died down somewhat, but since a couple of people who didn’t have underlying health problems have died from it, the panic has resurfaced.
Comment by laura-kirsty — October 26, 2009 @ 3:05 pm
Il make it simple for ya. Its only a worry if you die from it… but then its too late.
Lets wait and see what it mutates into… this could be the real killer.
Telefant , your answer is outstanding.
Comment by ddg2sailor — October 27, 2009 @ 5:50 am