Swine flu: are you scared?

[Mono]

If you live in this planet and your home is not inside some cave or in an underground hole, you know that this new kind of flu is starting to kick in, striking from North America, and has already being reported in Europe, Oceania, and Central and South America. At this point, there are just a few hundred reported cases, and only a few deaths.

From my experience from what I read and what I have seen in my professional life, the level of fear (of a disease, for example) is usually inversely proportional to what people really know about the threat in question. So I want to know this: are you scared of swine flu? And what do you know about it?

[BenoitRen]

I'm not scared because it hasn't been reported in Belgium yet. All I know about the disease is that it's a variant of an animal disease that can infect humans.

[NYKgjl10]

I'm not worried at all I live my life to the fullest to worry about the swine flu.

[Zucca]

I belive that people will have developed the vaccine before it turns to a large scale epidemic.

[Neo48]

The media likes to sensationalize everything so its not as scary as one may think. There are cases in a city one half hour away from where I live. I'm not sure whether or not to be worried, I would like to know how the virus affects the body in a way that can lead to death.

[Semix]

just keep the hell outta mexico. Youll be alright. For now... And probably forever. But i have felt very ill latley...

[Edless]

Not at all, knowing that the first case that has been reported in Mexico has been cured and that it has only killed a few hundred people on earth, in my country I am more likely to die from a car accident or even a domestic incident (like if I were to slip in my bath tub and die, such incident are twice as many as car accidents.)

If we want to be serious for one second, more people die from a normal flue every year no matter what.
If I get infected with a normal flue in australia for instance, many people in the plane on my way back and in the airport will be infected.
Then if I visit my grandmother in her hospice I'll probably kill many other grannies with that normal flue (the same is true for every other guy from the airport and the plane that want to see their relatives.)

I am only concerned about the propaganda we are victim of. (it's been a week that 2 third of the news is filled with that, as if they were to tell us : "well, for this time this was just a flue, but don't worry we'll have a real pandemia one day, and you're gonna get it.")

[IndispensablePeaGuy]

Not particularly. Should I be?

[Semix]

Not particularly. Should I be?

Not yet...

[Zucca]

Few informational pics:

[thriwren]

The swine flu is just the medias new toy. They love playing around with us.

[Zucca]

The swine flu is just the medias new toy. They love playing around with us.

Yes. I belive so too. They make money with people who get afraid easily.

[Neo48]

Edless is quite right. Not only in his country but in many countries are things such as car crashes more likely.

[Zucca]

More rescent news: http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Swine_flu_worldwide:_update

[NYKgjl10]

The swine flu is just the medias new toy. They love playing around with us.

I agree with you 100%!!