Pandemic

Swine Flu Pandemic The World Health Organization has now declared that the Swine Flu is a Pandemic. Strangely, I don't know anyone who has swine flu, nor has my daily life been effected by swine flu. Other than reading about it on the Internet or watching it on TV, there has been no change in my life. In Los Angeles County, just north of where I live, there have only been about two deaths attributed to it. This is a county with probably 800 murders a year and I suspect even more deaths from traffic collisions. I would think that for a disease to rise to the level of "Pandemic" there should be some sort of noticeable change in the way life is going. Nothing here seems at all different. The swine flu seems a remote danger, far less than getting murdered or killed in a car wreck. The news was filled a few weeks ago about a couple people locally who were hit by lightening. This is not an area known for lightening storms and we had two people hit. I would think that a pandemic would indicate more danger than the remote possibility of being hit by lightening. The media kept reminding us of the 1918 flu pandemic and how millions of people died, and there were bodies in the street. It seems this pandemic may be more along the lines of the flu that killed almost as many people as lightening strikes; that's the view from the Hysterical Right Wing.