1. 

   wat watttt
   July 23rd, 2010 - 03:32

   I’m pretty sure it’s just because everyone freaked out when it first was discovered because there was no vaccine, and now again because the vaccine isn’t tested or as reliable as the one for regular flu. I think that the regular flu has killed more people than swine flu anyway, so you make a valid point.
2. 

   smiley :]
   July 23rd, 2010 - 03:40

   The regular influenza has been around for many years. People are familiar with it and such. But now that there was a new strand of the flu, people became paranoid because they didn’t know as much about it. The only reason that it got so much attention was because it was something foreign that people were not familiar with yet.
3. 

   GO USA
   July 23rd, 2010 - 04:05

   One of the major concerns I have heard voiced was that it could mutate into something more deadly “at any moment”. Any strain of flu could do this, so that sounds like BS.

   I know you don’t want to hear any “conspiracy theories”, but the plain facts are that there IS no simple answer grounded in reason that couldn’t also be labeled a conspiracy theory. I’ll try anyway though:

   H1N1 is so widely reported because vaccine manufacturer PR campaigns have overstressed the risks and convinced (possibly financially) nation and world health figureheads that it is a real threat, despite actual risks and statistics. This deception may have been spread top down throughout media and propaganda outlets around the world, or could have spread person to person cultivated by our society of fear.

   If you can’t accept that then you may be very well programmed.
4. 

   ckm1956
   July 23rd, 2010 - 04:37

   With the regular flu, older adults were more likely to be seriously ill or die.

   With H1N1, it was young children & young adults. There are a couple of theories why. In one, adults > 50 were exposed to a flu in the past that was close enough to give them a form of immunity. In the other, the healthy immune systems of the young over compensated when attacked by H1N1, which the patients had not been exposed to.
5. 

   LINDA R
   July 23rd, 2010 - 04:48

   Excellent question! Regular flu kills 36,000 people in the US each year, and we never hear a panic about it. H1N1 has killed far fewer people, but there seems to be a panic over it. I think one reason for the over reaction is that regular flu has been around for a long time. People are used to dealing with it. H1N1 is something new, that we have not seen before. Sometimes when something new comes along, especially something that is seen as a possible threat to health, people get scared, and may even over react.

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