Swine Flu First death in England

[dangerdan 0]

England suffered its first death from swine flu yesterday. I want this topic to be a discussion of whether this is a truly worrying, globalising pandemic or purely media hyped fantasy.By all accounts swine flu isn't even as mild as normal flu and yet the world media seem to be having a field day! I am only glad this is not a problem the media can "induce" by talking about, such as a recession, otherwise everyone would be dropping dead just because of the media coverage swine flu is being given.People need to stop worrying, especially in this country, where it IS only going to get worse as we approach the regular flu season anyway (Northern Hemisphere Winter or Oct-Jan roughly) especially as in badly affected areas (such as the Midlands, where I'm from) people are being told not to go to the doctors and they've stopped trying to control the disease from spreading.The point is this strain isn't that bad, but if mutates with seasonal or avian flu then we may well have a problem on our hands, at the moment though I don't think we do...