Is this swine flu outbreak a pandemic? Yes, in every sense of the term. A pandemic doesn’t mean death to the world, and it doesn’t mean everyone is going to die. It just means we’ve got something very contagious flying around the fucking world like there is no tomorrow. There might not be a tomorrow for H1N1, and it’s not because of a fucking vaccine.

Why the hell is this flu variant getting so much damn attention anyway? It’s not like many people are dying from this. As we stand right now, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control has reported that a staggering 5,382 people have died from this. There are over 6,700,000,000 people in the world, and we’re running around scared over 5,382? That’s a whole 0.00008032% of the population dying from this horrific disease.

So this disease doesn’t discriminate and will kill anyone right? It’s not looking like it. Every kind of person is getting sick, but the fat, elderly, and those with weak immune systems are the only ones sleeping in pine on this. This is exactly what the seasonal flu does, but the seasonal flu kills between 250,000 and 500,000 people each year. Look at those numbers. 250,000 on the low end, compared to 5,382. You don’t have to a mathematician to notice those two numbers aren’t even in the same ballpark.

If this flu was on par with, or even remotely close to the Spanish flu (killed 20,000,000-100,000,000 people), Asian flu (killed 2,000,000 people), Hong Kong flu (killed 1,000,000), or even the damn seasonal flu, then sure, be concerned. But it’s not, so stop freaking out.

I suggest we examine other deaths and declare a national emergency and worldwide panic for them too. I’m just glancing at some numbers, about as many people die in the USA of hydroxylic acid each year as have died of H1N1 worldwide. Worldwide, the deaths caused from hydroxylic acid are about 500,000 people. Why don’t we panic about that instead? Why not declare a national emergency for those thousands of people too? Declaring a national emergency for H1N1; Obama, you’re a complete dick.