What the Hell is going on?

The Riley graves at Eyam

Copyright © John Beres 2003-2009

Just looking at the headlines this week you would think that we are heading for a real life enactment of the BBC series "Survivors", or at least some catastrophic medical wipeout of the human race on a par with the Great Plague of 1666. It's flu for goodness sake! Yes, tragically people can die from it, but its hardly the Black Death. Why do the media have to whip these things up to a frenzy and cause mass panic. Yesterday on the BBC site 95% of the public comments to the Swine Flu item were suggesting it was over the top and panicing. If it really is that serious why the hell are we allowing flights into or out of Mexico and why arent we isolating people who have been anywhere near the place. The old Eyam strategy would work just as well as it did in the 17th century. Today I noticed the BBC have removed all its public comments on the subject. Maybe our politicians are just so unbelievable that until something actually happens no one takes them seriously them.

If the government want to panic the population then they are going the right way about it. Perhaps this is just an exercise in mass hysteria. One thing I know if this thing ends up the same way as Bird Flu or SARS then this government have cried "WOLF" too many times.