Attack Of The British Public

one am exhausted from having to explain to people that if another person sneezes, sniffles or coughs, it does not necessarily mean that they have Bird flu, Swine flu or whatever new outbreak they’ve seen in the news.       Before the “horror” of swine flu broke out, in 2008 Mexico had 200,000 tourists in 6 months. But once the news declared that swine flu originated in Mexico, 2009 only brought Mexico 10,000 tourists in 8 months. Because we refuse to go to that beautiful country, around 1,000 people hired in the tourist business lost their jobs! Is that fair?        A plane from Madrid to New York, a 9 hour flight, left the gate with 138 passengers onboard, 2 of the people had a mild case of swine flu. When the plane arrived in the New York airport, all passengers where checked for swine flu; they found only 2 cases. So, everything you see in the news about swine flu being highly contagious isn’t true.        Actor Rupert Grint (Ron Weasly from Harry Potter ) was infected by the virus. When asked how he felt he said “Mentally I thought I was dying, no thanks to the news, but physically I had a cold re-formed.”        Out of nearly 7 billion people in the world only 337 people have ever had bird flu. It would be so hard to catch Bird flu that you would have to hold an infected bird up against your nose and breath in very heavy breaths.       If you did catch one of the new flu’s, it will most likely be a mild case and easily treatable. A maximum of 10 days, you’ll live to tell the tale!        However, I’m not surprised about the British nations overreaction. The news definitely does not help. “Swine Flu will have a major attack in the autumn”. What do they what us to do? Run for our lives? If someone said, “seasonal flu was going to attack” we wouldn’t run around like a headless chicken All the news wants from us is a big reaction so that we will keep on paying their wages by buying or watching the news.         Britain has a big reputation. For being over-priced, being overly green and now overreacting.         Let’s turn our reputation around. We may not have the authority to change our prices, enough spray paint to change our colour, but we can stop overreacting to the news. Whenever swine flu or bird flu or any other kind of outbreak comes on you are allowed to turn the television off.         We were once a great nation able to fight back anyone who tried to conquer us. Lets not let flu hysteria conquer us.