Monday, April 27, 2009

Fear Factor


All of this from the Drudge Report:

Military 'monitoring' outbreak...
WHO Will Raise Alert to Unprecedented Level...
2,000 people in Mexico hospitalized with serious pneumonia...
Napolitano: Closing border not the answer...
EU: Don't travel to USA/Mexico...
*US calls EU travel warning unwarranted...
**Russia to check all planes from Americas...
STATE DEPT ISSUES TRAVEL WARNING...
UK INVESTIGATING 17 POSSIBLE CASES...
Has globalization made us more catastrophe-prone?
PIG SICK: NYC...
Flu could boost gov't intervention further...
CDC: No vaccine prevents...
Outbreak Triggers Global Mobilization...
Mexicans take swine flu lightly on border...
SIGNIFICANT INCREASED RISK OF PANDEMIC, BUT NOT FOREGONE CONCLUSION


Anyone else think Drudge might be overdoing it? And maybe the media overall is overdoing it. It seems that they are blowing this way out of proportion. Especially since Swine Flu is easily treatable with current medicationsthat we have plenty of:

Q: Are there drugs that treat swine flu? A: Roche Holding AG’s Tamiflu and GlaxoSmithKline Plc’s Relenza both react against swine flu. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is releasing 25 percent of its stockpile of Tamiflu and Relenza, according to Secretary Janet Napolitano.


Everyone calm down!!!

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