The 6 o’clock news today had nothing but reports of the lines gathering around health clinics across Toronto with thousands of people scrapping it out for places inside to get their arm jabbed to free themselves from potentially contracting the deadly Swine Flu. Just another example of a media storm in a tea-cup and causing panic among the masses. Talk about a major over reaction. While H1N1 can be a serious risk for children and the elderly the clinic I seen on TV had plenty of healthy looking adults swarming outside trying to get in front of both woman and children like some first class passenger on the Titanic doing all they could to get onto a life raft before the boat went down. However, on this occasion no boat is going down, the world is not coming to an end and Swine Flu is not going to wipe us out. Let the children, the elderly and the sick get sorted and we can all wait our turn. A friendly reminder: More people die per year from regular flu. I know nobody wants to get sick and suffer for a few weeks, but is it worth powering down to the nearest clinic and banging on the door until someone sedates you with a flu jab? Let’s hope this whole theory of the world coming to an end in 2012 doesn’t prove to be true because I can only imagine the kind of panic that would cause if Swine Flu can generate this.

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