I’m sure you have heard the news: the Swine Flu is going to be a pandemic worthy of great attention from governments all over the world including that of the United States. While the mainstream media is spreading the fear, many people are running for vaccainations and crowing to the government for intervention.
The truth, however, is that, according to the highest numbers I could find, 81 people have died from the scary Swine Flu.
To put that number into perspective, roughly 36,000 people die every single year from influenza, or the regular flu. Maybe 81 isn’t such a large number.
To end on a slightly depressing, yet humorous note, the pandemic has apparently been on its way since 1976:
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[...] took the time to research it better than I did. According to an article at Rotting Nation entitled Swine Flu Fearmongering Center for Disease Control figures show 36,000 people die every year from regular flu in the United [...]
I think the risks of getting swine flu is pretty big now and i am sure lots of people have it but are not reporting.
Thank you for being reasonable. The fearmongering is so ridiculous it’s not even funny. How about the pneumonia pandemic? Or the poverty pandemic? Or the child abuse pandemic? Or the drunk driving pandemic? People really focus on the stupidest of things — even if 100,000 people die, it’s still not as bad as AIDS or poverty-related illnesses.
[...] When the swine flu “pandemic” initially broke out I called nothing more than a bunch of fear-mongering. I even introduced this t-shirt into the Rotting Nation [...]
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