The 2009 Swine Flu Panic

Well there you have it folks, President O-Boy has spoken and according Dr. Barack Hussien O-Boy we have nothing to worry about with the current Swine Flu scare. What he actually said went like this; "It may turn out that H1N1 ... runs its course like all ordinary flus, in which case we will have prepared and we won't need all these preparations." Dr. DH O-Boy's analogy of the virus scare is simple; he said part of the concern about this strain is that because it is so new, many people will not have built up an immunity to it. My question to our Medical Wisard in Chief would be; "How do you build up an imunity to a disease Oh Powerful Wizard?"

Someone has probably told the "Boy Wonder" from Chicago, via Hawaii, via California, via Indonesia, via Mombosa, Kenya that only 140 US Citizens out of 304 million have contracted Swine Flu, 1 boy, (not even an American citizen) has died in this country from the Swine Flu. Worldwide, there have been a mire 331 cases confirmed, out of a total world population of 6.77 billion people, O-Boy included!

From what I have read so far of the WorldWide panic, the biggest victims of the Flu so far are the Hogs themselves! Egypt ordered over 300,000 hogs in that country exterminated in a frantic effort to ward off the disease. England, with only 5 reported cases, has ordered 32 million masks for their people! The funniest one of all though is out of Germany where just three cases have been reported, they are placing a Doctor aboard all Lufthansa flights to Mexico! Japan, South Korea, Greece and Turkey are using Thermal Camera's at their Airports to verify if the passengers have a fever, if they do, they are denied entry into that country.

I don't have the answer, I'm not as wise as Dr. BH O-Boy I guess. But I do think it's humorous to sit back and watch the panic. Lets see, how many of these have I witnessed? The Asian Flu in the 50's, Hong Kong flu in the late 60's, We've has the Bird flu, and several flu panics due to swine in the past. The only virus I've seen kill off millions so far has been AIDS/ HIV, and it's still killing people!