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Swine flu alert!

I watched this slideshow about swine flu on WebMD and, with all my journalistic integrity and credentials, have determined that swine flu is basically normal flu with a fun name that didn’t get included in this year’s flu shot. The symptoms are the same, the severity range is the same. The only difference is that the media is covering this like it’s the black plague. (And I’m helping!)

20,000 people a year die of normal flu. So far a couple hundred have died of swine flu. Correct me if I’m wrong, but in perspective it doesn’t seem like we should be this freaked out.

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