Something Stinks
May 17th 2009 22:59
I'd like to know if anyone else out there is taking notice of something. Seems pretty fishy to me. When this whole swine flu thing started, oh sorry H1N1, wouldn't want to offend any pigs, It was under 200 cases and the media hype was huge. Now there are about 9000 cases worldwide and almost 5000 in the US alone, there is almost no mention of it. In a 24 hour period a day ago, there were 1000 new cases.
If there was something big in the news to overshadow this it wouldn't seem strange, but frankly there are no big news stories and let's face it, when does the news media ever pass up a chance to sensationalize a story. At the start of this they claimed they were worried because it could reach pandemic levels. The reason they worry about things like this is because for every one case there are at least 10 possible cases behind it if not more. Let's say a flu has an incubation period of 7-10 days before it shows. In that period of time a single person can affect 10, 20 or 100 people depending on what they do in the course of a day. If they ride mass transit or get on an airplane, the numbers could be quite large. Schools are also a big problem, as we see in NYC right now.
The mortality rate thus far is rather low, which is good, but the flu virus tends to mutate, not so good. If there are 10,000 cases this week there could be 100,000 cases next week. If your thinking, why should the media hype it and scare people. With good reason, sometimes a little fear is good. People would be more apt to take precautions.
So I ask again, why has this fallen off the radar when it is obviously getting worse?
If there was something big in the news to overshadow this it wouldn't seem strange, but frankly there are no big news stories and let's face it, when does the news media ever pass up a chance to sensationalize a story. At the start of this they claimed they were worried because it could reach pandemic levels. The reason they worry about things like this is because for every one case there are at least 10 possible cases behind it if not more. Let's say a flu has an incubation period of 7-10 days before it shows. In that period of time a single person can affect 10, 20 or 100 people depending on what they do in the course of a day. If they ride mass transit or get on an airplane, the numbers could be quite large. Schools are also a big problem, as we see in NYC right now.
The mortality rate thus far is rather low, which is good, but the flu virus tends to mutate, not so good. If there are 10,000 cases this week there could be 100,000 cases next week. If your thinking, why should the media hype it and scare people. With good reason, sometimes a little fear is good. People would be more apt to take precautions.
So I ask again, why has this fallen off the radar when it is obviously getting worse?
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