I wonder why we dont have such outrage when people die of seasonal flu? Is it simply that H1N1 is much more transmissible, possibly because sufferers aren’t totally flattened, so more people might catch it meaning an otherwise small fatality rate would still produce a lot of deaths?

Luckily, I’ve only had “real” standard forms of flu a couple of times in my life and those illnesses felt much worse.

But then I was either too young and/or too ignorant to realise the damage I could do to other people so I didn’t really think about it. I didn’t know how many people died from them.

Also they were one or two day illnesses that rendered me incapable of even standing up, let alone going into public places.

The fear that I could infect someone with asthma, kidney disease, a weak immune system, etc., and cause them serious illness or death has kept me well and truly isolated for a week.

I would be *so* angry if I got killed by swine flu that the sheer rage of my death would create god. And this god would be a god of rage and vengence. Then the world would know true fear.