Swine Flu The PANDEMIC......NOT

In 2009 what do you remember as the biggest concern, Swine Flu was mine. Remember all the newspaper articles talking about how bad the pandemic was and the concerns for immediate vaccination. When in reality all that was, was newspapers blowing a not so big problem into a major pandemic. Statistics found on the site http://www.flucount.org/ indicate that over the course of 2009 when H1N1 was in pandemic stage 10,837 people died to the virus, now considering that the U.S. has over 300 million citizens, that means 5 in every 100,000 people died due to H1N1. That is a tiny number compared the 52 thousand that die every year due to pneumonia as said at http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/pneumonia.htm. So because of "yellow journalism" or the media's attempt to blow it way out of proportion. We spent 8 months worrying about something that was no more deadly than whooping cough.