Swine Flu

OK by now I'm sure almost everybody has heard of this. I'm surprised that all of this stuff just seemed to have came out of nowhere all of a sudden, it isn't how the media built up bird flu at all.

I really think that a lot of people need to relax and just calm down about this. Sure, it's a new illness that we have little to no knowledge of, but I'm sure something will be done to help stop this thing. Yes people have been killed by this in Mexico, but it's not exactly cancer is it? The media would like to have us believe that this is going to kill us all; at the end of the day, the more they can report on this the easier it is for them to do there job, and will more than likely gain the media more money too. The more they report on this in their usual sensationalist fashion the more panicked people will become; it's just not doing anyone any good. In fact I've heard that thousands of worried people have already called the health organisations, and I guess most of them (like 99.9% of them) have nothing to worry about.

I feel sorry for the poor Scottish couple that came home from holiday with the illness; I think it was bang out of order how the media released there names and where they lived; sure they need to be in some sort of quarantine for the moment, but there's a possibility things might be harder for them in the future because of this and it will damage their relationship with their community.