PANIC! FUD! HYSTERIA!

A couple of days ago there were 24 documented cases of swine flu (No, I'm NOT changing what I call it to keep the pig farmers happy!) in Australia. Yesterday there were 60. Today, around lunch time-ish we were looking at a bit over 100.

The newspapers have rolled out their barrels of hysterical ink.

"10,000" deaths in Australia has been mooted.

Some idiot spoke of the number cases doubling every day.

DO THE MATH MORON!

If we doubled every day, by June 15th, check the calendar people, that's less than three weeks from now, every single breathing human being in Australia would be infected with the pig that flu. And half of us would have it TWICE!

Ten days after that, assuming we keep this ridiculous "double every day" assumption alive and well, everybody on the planet will have the swine flu five times over.

Sheesh.

Perspective, like the kind I learned in first year Engineering, is needed.

Relax.

Don't let anybody sneeze on you (sneeze right back on them if they do!).

Do the handshake like Howie Mandel (look it up if you don't know what I'm talking about) and chill the fuck out people