Swine Flu, but has anybody else had enough of ratings-hungry media organizations coming out every few months with a new epidemic set to kill us all?When I was in grade school, Killer Bee's were going to invade from South America or Africa and take over, trapping us in our homes and stinging us to death.
Then there was SAR's, which was far scarier for the way governments around the world reacted to it then it actually ended up being itself.
There are, of course, very real dangers of a disease outbreak, even in our own 'modern times's...though most people bizazzarely have never heard of the post WWI Inlfuenza pandemic.
But there is a fine line between actual danger and appropriate response, sensationalism and actual truth. I don't doubt someday we will face a real epidemic, but panic and fear sells newsprint, and judging by the fact that 'Swine Flu' has been googgled an ungodly amount of times today, I think we're in for a year or so of disease based terror.
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