Looking at Swine Flu over the last few days has made me think about whether or not it is really as bad as the WHO say it is. A few people all over the world are becoming infected with this strain of flu, and it does seem to be spreading at a fairly fast rate. But is it really going to be threatning to the health of the world?
Confirmed cases of Swine Flu have risen to 16 in the UK now and it seems to be under control. All the individuals in question have indeed had contacts with people who have either vistited Mexico or Mexicans themselves so we can understand why they have caught it.
I get a little hazy as to why everyone is going mad about this Swine Flu though. I mean, the amount of people who have died, got it and transmitted it is the tinyest fraction of the human population possible.
Secondly, the symptoms are supposed to be fairly similar to normal, bog standard flu. How do we know that some cases are actually just flu?
I think that one of the main problems I have with it is that Mexico have lowered the amount of suspected deaths from 176 to 101. It says to me that the unnacounted deaths were probably from other diseases or illnesses. Can we really be sure that this a mass killer, or is it going completely blown out of proportion, I leave you to decide.
All I know is theres no way in hell im going to Mexico.
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Maybe you’re right, this pandemic may be relatively innocent. Yet, people do die from the H1N1. It isn’t too farfetched to imagine that such a pandemic could actually happen. I read this great novel that appeared recently, by Suter: Two Journeys (isbn 1439250138). It describes one of these horror scenarios, the world affected by a virus, everybody dying, except for one single guy. Quite realistic, imagine how the world is given back to nature again, within years you wouldn’t even know that humans were on earth.
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