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by The Un-named on November 5th, 2009

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Why are people afraid of the H1N1(swine flu)? Thousands and thousands of people die in a america from the regular flu but no one freaks out about that. Is it because we have decided that those are acceptable losses?

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  • by Talimze on November 5th, 2009

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    People are probably afraid because it's a pandemic.
    Well, the chances of death for a person who gets H1N1 is about 1 in 3000, and that leaves the expected death toll for the US alone around 100,000, and the death toll for the whole world will probably remain in the hundreds of thousands. So, we're getting off lightly as pandemics go. But, it's important to know that just because there are not hundreds of millions of people dead doesn't mean there is no danger.

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