Do you NOT CARE about the whole Swine Flu issue?

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It turning into a serious problem, its coming too close to home now since I live in England & there are two confirmed cases in Scotland as well in places like Spain etc. Lets hope it can get sorted out sooner rather than later.

I don't live in a big city so I doubt it'll come to my area. I don't think it'll be much of a problem here in the UK; only two people are known to be infected, and most people can get healthcare from the NHS even if they're poor.

What does this have to do with autism?

Shouldn't this be moved somewhere?

While I try to have an interest in everything, well just say this new media balloon isn't high on my list of priorities.

I just read a headline that said "Beating swine flu? Stay away from all".

Relatively speaking, they are talking about shutting down the country (U.S.) over a flu. I'm sure it's a worse than average flu, and if I end up getting it it will probably suck very much, but seriously, people get sick every day and people die of normal flu every day. The media pumps this garbage up like we got to shut down the whole operation over 68 cases... Why? Because it makes for good news.

Is this going to kill more people than the many thousands that die in car accidents every year? Do people cower in their homes due to the ever-present risk of getting peeled down at any moment by a drunk, or an idiot on a phone, or a runaway 18 wheeler that is on fire? I don't get it... On a scale of 1 to 10 the relative danger of dying of swine flu in the U.S. is probably about a 1.6.

Sorry, mine is a rant on the media more than anything else. Way to sensationalize a disease that is so "severe" that every day it causes thousands of parents and their children to butt heads about whether or not the child feels bad enough to miss school.

They are "shutting down" in Mexico, so far not so much in the US. There is room for some concern though. If you get smug and don't think you can catch it you might just end up with a really bad case of Swine Flu and at some point you'll probably be wishing you had been somewhat cautious. I can understand why there would be concern in places like schools because it's not easy keeping germs out of schools and once one kid gets something and goes to school with it, like, if they have a runny nose and get it on their hands and touch stuff they are going to spread whatever it is, colds, swine flu, whatever.
I have gone to movies before and come down with colds because I was careless. I have gone to Wal Mart, touched a shopping cart and caught stomach viruses and colds that way because I didn't think. It's easy to sometimes "forget" to wash your hands unless you are about to eat or something and if you touch a shopping cart at the store, then touch your nose, then touch the cart, then touch your nose, and that cart has swine flu on it, that is all it takes to come down with it and most people do not stop and wash their hands several times while shopping. Same at the movies. You touch the arm rest of your chair several times, and without thinking, touch your nose and, it's the same as with the shopping cart, if swine flu is on that arm rest you can get it. It's not "Hype" it's reality. It really is that easy to catch something. So, yes, it's good to be cautious. Be glad the media is telling you about, sheesh, instead of just letting you get sick with it while all the time saying nothing at all. At least now you are aware of it. Take a little can of Lysol with you to the store and to the movies

I kinda care but I'm not bricking myself over it. It might just be another bird flu where everyone got scared over nothing.
I''m right in the middle of england so I doubt there'll be many cases here, it would most probably be in the costs where people come in from other countries on ferrys and things.

As long as I or anyone I care about doesn't catch it I couldn't really care.

Having said that, if I were about twelve again, I'd be saving-up canned food, water and soap under my bed in preperation for the apocalypse (hopefully with zombies). Don't ask.

I've seen this hype before with mad cow, sars, and bird flu. Seeing how history has a tendency to repeat itself, swine flu will kill a few hundred, the media and the general public get in a rational thought sapping state of fear, and after some time every one forgets and moves on. And in 2 to 4 years bear flu emerges.

I just returned from the store where I got some Vicks and a small bottle of Germ X. I had some already but it's almost gone. I got a trial size. I looked for a regular size but the store was completely sold out of Germ X, Purell, and all other brands of hand sanitizer. I am determined to remain Swine Flu free and will start working toward my goal by using the Germ X serveral times a day. I want to make a little experiment out of this. I figure I have nothing to lose. The worst that could happen would be I get it and that might happen anyway, if I just did nothing so I got nothing to lose. I want to see if this Vicks, Dial Complete Foaming Hand Soap, and Germ X is enough to keep me Swine Flu free. I might end up being a Germ X addict before this is over. I used it before eating popcorn at the movies and at restaraunts before, but, after this I might start using it all the time just to keep the germies off my hands.
When I got home I put some Vicks on the end of a Q tip and coated the inside of a nostril with it. I threw it away after that, it was sorta yucky, then I got another Q tip, put some Vicks on it and did the same thing to the other nostril. So now all I can smell is the menthol in the Vicks. It's cool. Literally.
So, now the inside of my nose has this Vicks forcefield shielding it from any stray virii that might attempt an attack and invasion.