Reply #2: tell it to the families of the dead....

[mike_c]

No worries. They just choked to death on their own fluids. Everybody dies sooner or later.

on edit in case the snark wasn't apparent enough: Pandemic influenza is a dire killer. Sure, it comes and goes, and most victims survive-- and most folks don't even get the disease-- but that doesn't change the circumstance that many, many will die.

We've been through a national freakout over 3000 or so dead people since 2001. That's a minor blip on the radar compared to pandemic flu.