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Originally Posted by Susan9608  This swine flu hype is totally asinine. Every year seasonal influenza is pandemic. EVERY. SINGLE. YEAR. And there are many deaths each year from seasonal flu. This past year (the 08-09 season) seasonal flu was not even treatable with tamiflu and had to be treated with relenza. Swine flu is treatable by BOTH. Everyone is freaking out for no reason, other than the fact that this strain is surfacing late and is called "swine" flu. The media should be ashamed for creating such a panic. |
If I could thank you more than once, I would. Schools in my state are being closed because of this. In my friend's town schools were closed because a janitor in one school basically sneezed after a vacation to Mexico and they are now closing the entire district and banning kids from that town who attend an interdistrict magnet school in another town!
There are 141 confirmed cases of this treatable flu out of 300 million people in the U.S. and 363 cases
worldwide. It's crazy the hysteria that the media is causing over this. We're getting breaking news alerts when someone "may" have swine flu and to date, there still have been
no confirmed cases here in CT.
And re the OP: it's a shame that ignorance and hysteria has led to the useless slaughter of these animals. I also am not going to debate vegetarianism vs. omnivorism, but I would prefer that if an animal is going to be slaughtered, that it not just be left to rot for nothing.