Sam Purtill

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Thoughts on Swine Flu

The media is having a hayday with the swine flu panic. Must be a slow news week, here are some numbers to put this thing into perspective.

  • 6,706,993,152: population of the world in July 2008 [source]
  • 1,000,000: people killed from April 6 to mid July in the 1994 Rwandan genocide (given very little press) [source]
  • 443,000: Number of people that die from smoking every year in the US [source]
  • 3,974: auto accident deaths in California (2007) [source]
  • 236: confirmed swine flu cases which has dominated the media this last week [source]
Americans love panicking about things like this - I’m sure you all remember SARS or the West Nile Virus. Maybe it’s the ‘Cold War complex’ Americans have? Or our love of stress? Or what? I will be ignoring all the news until this becomes a real problem to me, I wish everyone could do the same.

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  1. sahil reblogged this from sampurtill and added:
    Great insight. I have...add though. It should be noted that with regular Influenza, each...
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