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This is really starting to irritate me, the media over here is going berserk going on about it and once more going totally over the top as they did with bird flu, I think its just another over hyped worry and it wont amount to much in the end anyway.

I remember them going "THERE HAS BEEN TWELVE CASES IN BRITAIN", I mean yes wow twelve people in a population of 60,943,912 yes I can see the worry, the horror and terror, the so called epidemic.

I am taking a total lackadaisical attitude to this, I don't read newspapers or watch the news because they generally spout lies or exaggerate everything, the rest is advertising in some form, I read the papers this once to see what they're saying about this and is just makes me wish we had some press censorship, to stop these idiots creating panic.

UNLESS I GROW HOOVES AND A CURLY TAIL I DON'T CARE.

I pretty much agree with you.
On the flu part, and the part about the newspapers and such. That's why I don't typically read them or watch news either -- though sometimes it's funny when they take five minutes to say they don't know anything, say something redundant such as 'shot to death', or say something completely wrong.
It's also funny when the news people trip up mid-sentence, or get so pissed off that they can't maintain nuetrality.
That, and I got to watch Brian Busby try to be a smartass once when a caller made fun of him. He, umm..... failed, miserably. It was hilarious.

Anyway, yeah. I think they're making it out to be much worse than it actually is. I mean, 150 cases in America. Awesome. That pretty much leaves 304,059,574 people who aren't sick, not counting anyone that's been born or died since last June. Granted that America has a positive rate of natural increase, it's more than that number.
Point is, yes, we have the flu -- on a very, very miniscule level. I really don't care unless I end up getting it, in which case I'll probably just end up getting better after a few days of horrible screaming illness. And that's just fine with me.

I just think that they need to get all the sick people in one big hospital room and keep them there.

And kill all of the pigs. :l

And maybe people will stfu.

Swine flu is the media blowing everything out of proportion again.

It's the normal flu.
There are, what, like two hundred cases worldwide?
And only twenty deaths, last time I checked. And all Mexican (yes, the one death in America was a Mexican kid whose parents brought it to America for treatment), and they were all either very young, very old, or very sick.
These are the normal people who die from the flu.

It isn't killing healthy people.
It's not some huge pandemic.
Chill the ******** out.

If the food industry just cracked down and made stricter health regulations this wouldn't even be an issue.