Is swine flu really the threat we perceive it to be? Here’s what our featured writer Popider thinks, in a slightly satirical way…

A wolf, a tiger and a pig congregate around a campfire one bizarre evening. One thing leads to another, and they inevitably begin to boast. The wolf says “every time I howl, the whole forest is scared”. The tiger says “that’s nothing. Every time I roar, the whole jungle is terrified!” The pig snorts (derisively) and says “Well every time I sneeze, the whole world craps itself.”

A global pandemic. A threat to modern civilisation. A hundred billion lives in danger (?) What will be reported next on Swine flu? As far as my number crunching has led me to believe, 4 of 100,000 cases have resulted in death unaided by any other illness. That’s 1 in 25,000. You have a better chance of being struck by lightning than dying if you get it. … read whole post…

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