Swine Flu - Media Mania

We have always had the flu. It is an illness of the respiratory system and if it gets bad can lead to Phnemonia and eventually death. In 1918 a huge number of people died from it. Even now, over 30,000 people die from the flu each year in the USA alone! And that is with the best medical care in the entire world!

A week ago, the crazy liberal media found out that someone in Mexico had contracted swine flu. It has the same symptoms as bird flu and all the other kinds of flu; sore throat, aches, pains, cough, congestion. It also has the same risk of complications and death.A week has passed. There are now 257 confrimed cases of Swine Flu throughout the entire world. Did I say "ONLY 257 cases"? I meant to say "ONLY". There have been 7 deaths in Mexico and 1 in the US from Swine Flu.Suddenly we have a world wide crisis on our hands. It is worse than an epidemic...it's a Stage 5 Pandemic! Everyone is running around wearing masks, or hoods. Trips and flights are being canceled. Schools are being closed. Pigs are being slaughtered. Panic is spreading through the streets! The World Health Organization (WHO) as well as our wonderful new US Presidency have warned us to avoid planes and subways and taxis. The headlines on every web page and newspaper warn about the crisis. HEAVEN PLEASE HELP US!!!!!

Now calm down everyone...let's see....7 days have passed since the first case was reported. Help me do the math... Let's see, there are about 30,000 deaths in the USA from the other kinds of flu each year. That converts to 82 deaths per day in the US. Multiply that by 7 days and we get 575 deaths this past week from the normal kinds of flu. Are you starting to see a problem here?Why is the world in a crisis over 8 Swine Flu deaths over the entire world when we lost 575 people from the regular flu over the same week in the US alone?"

Why?" you asked.

That is an excellent question!

THE MEDIA!

It is a fact that this entire panic is being caused by the media. But WHY? What do they have to gain? What is their motivation?

Is it for money?

They are certainly selling more papers and ads than last week, and many of the newspapers are hurting from a bad economy. It COULD be for money. I have several friends at work that say that money and profit is the real reason!

Is it for power and control?

Now that's a thought. The media loves to use their power and influence to help a good cause. They elected Obama didn't they? When the media believes that they are right, they will do whatever they can to get the world to agree with them. It is their duty.

Some have said that this whole thing is designed to punish Mexico.

For what? For selling drugs to the US citizens? For sending their poor, unemployed, criminals to our land as illegal aliens? This is definitely a possiblity.

I believe it is for all of those reasons!

Personally I resent that it is happening and that the people of the world are allowing it to happen. They are running around like a bunch of idiots wearing masks and hoods and begging for vaccines.

Our secretary at work left for a Mexico vacation the very day that they announced the flu scare. She is due back on Monday. Our company president called to tell me that she was going to be quarantined for three days after she returned. I thought he was kidding me. He wasn't kidding. This whole thing is ridiculous and we are letting it happen. I wrote a letter to the editor this morning and told him my thoughts. I told him that we had had enough of the flu scare and he needed to move on. "Your headlines are boring!" I wrote.

Maybe he will write back.....before the flu scare is over