The Swine Flu Is NOT As Serious As the Media Portrays It To Be

If you've been living under a metaphorical rock for the past week or so, a "pandemic" of a particular strain of the influenza virus, the swine virus, named after the original organism which contained it. The biggest difference between this and the common cold is that flu shots are ineffective against this strain. Having broken out and killed several people in Mexico, and infecting a few in the United States, you'd be hard pressed to watch a news program and not have the swine flu mentioned within the first three stories.

So, flu shots are ineffective against this disease...

BIG






DEAL.

People are treating this as if its some killer pandemic that will cause the eventual demise of everyone on the planet. The media may have you think otherwise, but just because flu shots are ineffective against this particular disease DOESN'T MEAN MANY PEOPLE ARE GOING TO DIE. The virus is not in any way more harmful to you than the common cold, but people seem to think that the apocalypse has come.

Our bodies don't have immune systems for no reason. They're designed to fight off diseases such as this, and drinking your orange juice and getting plenty of rest WILL get it out of your system. It's just like your average flu. The only people who should actually be concerned about this disease are the elderly, the very young, and people with another disease affecting their immune system such as HIV-AIDS.

Which brings me to another good point. People are freaking out over the swine flu, yet no-one seems to care about AIDS anymore. What happened? Did they find a cure? No. HIV-AIDS still continues to kill millions every year, and when compared to ALL kinds of influenzas, seems like a much bigger thing to worry about.

Remember a few years back, when the SARS disease was affecting countries such as China. American media seemed to be reporting about SARS significantly less then about the swine flu, yet the SARS virus killed around 700 people, and infected 8000. Yet, so far, the swine flu has infected 40 people, and killed 1.

And that 1 person who died was a toddler. I'm not saying this toddler's death is not a saddening event, but it was a toddler. Whose immune system hadn't fully developed. The toddler might as well have died from the common cold.

Quit Listening To Fox (Faux) News.

Not Pictured: The Swine Flu.