Swine Flu: The Overrated Pandemic
U.S. Confirmed Cases: 5,700 (as of this post)
U.S. Confirmed Deaths: 8 (as of this post)
U.S. Other Flu Deaths per year: 30,000
The Swine Flu, or H1N1 Influenza, is way too overrated. Just by looking at these numbers, you can tell that this is not a big deal. In New York City, many schools have closed for fear of the virus. Many of these schools closed because they thought that they had the Swine Flu. It turned out to be “just the flu.” If you think that a large killer of people in the U.S. is “just the flu,” that what do you expect the Swine Flu, with *8* deaths to be? To me, in the context it is on par with a Sinus Infection.
The Swine Flu is not a pandemic, but purely another flu to add to our long list of other types of the flu. And, at some point, we will find a vaccine anyway, even though we don’t need it. I can understand that the schools are taking precautions, but really, they need to toughen up. My school, which is one-hundred years old, has closed from a snow-day twice.
