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This is going to be the last swine flu thread posted here. I'm going to give you a couple of points to finally shut all of you up about this nonsense. I just want to say first that everyone is acting completely ridiculous about this supposed "pandemic".

First off, the acting chief for the Centers for Disease Control Richard Besser explained that this flu is not nearly as severe as many epidemics and pandemics the world has seen before. Not NEARLY as bad as the 1918 Flu Pandemic that killed FIFTY MILLION world-wide. He also went on to explain that the "swine flu" is no more dangerous than an "average winter", which kills about 36,000 people in the United States annually due to flu infenctions. That right there should calm people down, but I know it won't.

Let's talk about the actual death toll and the people who are dying from this virus. The WHO has confirmed 257 cases of swine flu worldwide. 97 cases in Mexico, with seven deaths… 109 confirmed cases [in the US] with 1 death. Out of a population of more than 300 million people, that hardly seems to be cause for alarm… In fact, some [scientists] suggest that the current form of the swine flu virus may not even do as much damage as the regular flu. SEVEN DEATHS WORLDWIDE PEOPLE. The people dying are people in Mexico, a third world country with an unstable government, no centralized hospital system, no medicine to treat the virus and horribly trained doctors. Make sense that 6 people died in Mexico now? The other death was a TWENTY THREE MONTH OLD INFANT WITH CLOSE TO NO IMMUNE SYSTEM IN TEXAS. That should also make some sense.

The reason this whole fiasco is causing more panic than pandemic is because it's the government and media officials just dishing out they're sick and twisted fetish for disaster. They get wind of a few people dying from a strain of the flu, start calling up health officials and scientist (WHO NEVER GET CALLED BY THE MEDIA, SO YOU CAN IMAGINE HOW EXCITED THEY GET) and they pressure them into making statments like "Well yes, the flu could have the potential to become a pandemic..." and suddenly it's THE END OF THE WORLD in the news.

Please people, learn to do actual research before getting sucked into the filthy anus of the media. There is absolutely NO reason to have this much hysteria over something that is NOT NEWS.

I want this thread closed, and stickied on top until this swineflu bs blows over so that everyone can ONLY read it. The other threads should be closed and/or deleted because there is only more speculation and misleading opinions in them that just cause more fear and ignorant hysteria. Everything you've read in THIS thread is FACT.

So you guys can stop to freaking now.

How did the flu start with pigs?