Swine Flu

The Swine Flu started in1918, becoming a plague killing over 500,000 people, then it came back in 1976, it had infected a soldier and killed him within 24 hours, and it also took 500 soldiers. Yes indeed this is scary to think about, but you also have to keep in mind our medical knowledge has advanced so much from then, and soldiers didn’t have the medical equipment and knowledge we do in today’s world.
Recently the Swine flu has come back, it traveled from Mexico to the United States, which may seem like a major problem, but when honestly to me it’s not. When you think about, it has only taken 23 lives here, which yes is a troubling thought, but it’s better than 500. The government I believe has advanced much since then, and when this flu came back the alarmed the nation, which made it so much more of a problem than it was. Most people do not die because they catch the flu; they have died because they did not take care of it. The news reporters just looking at something to grab, well they found it, and blew it up, people were traveling with mask’s over there mouth and nose, or just walking do the street they’d wear the mask. Children were being taken out of schools, people not going to work, cities closing down stores. Was all that really needed?
People just needed to understand, learn and read about the flu, not panic and take drastic measures like they have. Yes the Swine Flu was an epidemic, but it is not as deadly and threatens as it once was, or people, news casters make it out to be. People have a tendency to panic when something that was once a horrible thing comes back, which would be understandable if our medical knowledge didn’t advance and the world stayed the same. But people don’t think about how much smarter and how much more we know about disease, finding cure’s and protecting ourselves. I think that it is our government’s duty and responsibility to make it known how much we knowledge has advanced from then when the Swine Flu once hit, to now. They make it known that the Flu has come back, so why not reassure the people that it’s not as bad as it once was, and the main thing to keep in your mind is, people don’t die because they caught the flu, the die because they did not take care of it as it should be done.