How has Swine Flu become a world pandemic? The World Health Organisation have gone crazy over swine flu classing it a 'Phase 5' pandemic (Phase 6 is their top level pandemic, so surely Phase 5 should be killing a good few thousand?); 6,500 people have been infected by the virus, of which 65 have died... so that's 1% of the 6,500!?Now let's look at these figures on the grand scale of human life on earth:
Swine Flu: 0.00000000095%
(65 deaths of 6,790,062,216 world population)
Normal Flu: 0.000007%(500,000 deaths of 6,790,062,216 world population)
I'm not trying to dispute the fact there's a new virus that's killing people, i'm pissed off by the media band wagon about the whole situation. 65 people die from swine flu its on every front page, but half a million die every year and its unlikely to be on the back page of a selection of papers with nothing better to report.
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The media write so much bollocks to sell a few paper, I can't believe how long they've been sponging off Madelaine Mccan's kidnapping, THOUSANDS of children get kidnapped but somehow they're not worthy of the headlines? Why? If I had a child that had been kidnapped I'd be fucking annoyed that the Sun hasn't printed out posters on their middle page to help the search when Madelaine is still making headlines two years on.
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People in the United Kingdom are going on the tube with masks on and being really twitchy if someone pulls that face people pull just before they sneeze. Newspapers blow pretty much everything out of proportion. Swine Flu especially. Get the fuck over it, letting something stupid like this affect your everyday life is just ridiculous.
I give it another 2 to 3 months before the next cancer causing food or killer disease is out, I predict C4T strain of cat flu...
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