> all levels of govt "over reaction", with the light number of confirmed cases.
> The borders with Mexico stayed wide open for legal & illegal traffic. Air
> traffic with "countries that had confirmed cases" were not curtailed, to &
> from this country.

Well, nothing happened. I realize we could all imagine a worst-case scenario, but in reality, it was a milder than normal flu.

Today the San Francisco Chronicle and the San Jose Mercury News have no mention of swine flu on the front pages. The big news is the fire in Santa Barbara, and that was the noon news's lead story for the first ten minutes. Fires are great on TV news - lots of drama, choppers flying, flames raging, smoke, evacuations, destruction. It's great for ratings. Same with swine flu till something else became the latest disaster.

I think in reality, it was an over-reaction. Whether it was by design, I'll leave to the highly paid professional speculators on Fox who condemn PHRASECENSOREDPOSTERSHOULDKNOWBETTER. for his choice of mustard. shrug - I see this as a learning experience for me. It fits into my CERT exercise, it informs my judgment of the next flu panic (I'm not going to worry about that one either), and I have my bug-in supplies all ready for the next big earthquake. If a real flu bug hits, I'm ready with my kit and I'll volunteer if CERT is called out, but I'm betting on a quake before deadly flu.

We all get to make our judgments, and we'll benefit or not as the case may be. :->