There's a lot about this supposed pandemic problem that I don't understand.

First, everything was Bird Flu, there MIGHT BE a Bird Flu pandemic. So they started making vaccine based on that premise. Are they still doing that?

The Bird Flu was going to travel around the world with the migrating birds. That didn't seem to happen. A few birds tested positive for it, but no big deal.

Whenever the media had a slow news day, they trotted out the Bird Flu Pandemic articles, despite the fact that most of the human cases came from direct contact with birds.

Then in April, this Swine Flu was identified. So, did they continue making the Bird Flu vaccine? Or did they jump onto making a Swine Flu vaccine?

And they say it will get worse in the winter. Well, it's winter in half the world right now, and has been for a while. That should be something of an indicator for the northern hemisphere. As of yesterday, the death toll in Australia is 112. As of July 31, in Argentina, 337, in Brazil, 129 (Aug. 6).

In a NORMAL year in the U.S., more than 100,000 people are hospitalized with flu, and about 20,000 people die of it. That is one in five.

According to the CDC, they tracked 43,771 cases (confirmed + probable) of this flu between 4-24-09 through 7-24-09. Of these, 5,011 were hospitalized and there were 302 deaths. That is one in almost 17. (They stopped tracking 7-24-09)

According to the WHO, the latest figures 8-6-09) worldwide were 177,457 cases, with 1462 deaths. That is one death per 121 cases. Their figures also show that the Americas (top to bottom) is the hardest hit so far, with 102,905 cases and 1,274 deaths (one death per 80 cases). Europe is showing only one death per 604 cases.

And these figures only indicate confirmed or probable, not necessarily hospitalized.

Now, I'm not in the medical field, but how does this compute to a pandemic?