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Originally Posted by lmtada
X2. Good point Dean. Flu kills 50,000 Americans year, likely 4-5,000 Canadians annually. Yes 400,000 world wide. Media needs drama to sell.
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Surprisingly there is very little coverage in much of the media and I haven't seen much for sensational headlines. Much of the info is trickling out of China via social media and suggestions are its worse than media is reporting. I actually found that interesting and a bit weird as you'd think the MSM would be lapping this stuff. I'm almost wondering if they've been encouraged to not highlight it for now.
Its possible this is an overreaction by the Chinese gov't after the criticism for their handling of SARS. The resulting panic and hysteria may be causing most of the problems but its impossible to say right now. The WHO doesn't seem ready to call this a severe threat so that gives me some peace. Still going to start preparing to hunker down just in case.