... I totally spent Sunday planning for the apocalypse, and that was before I even heard of the swine flu going around :P (It was totally just for fun though, I'm not actually that paranoid)
Well, when stuff like this happens, a lot of hospitals put procedures in place that require everyone (or at the very least anyone feeling sick) to wear masks, or to wash their hands, so the stock piling is kind of necessary, because the demand will be up.
And actually, I don't think it's a bad idea for our health care systems to worry about such things. Historically there have been pandemics that have wiped out entire percentages of the population. We've also become a global community and it's so easy for these diseases to jump countries and continents now. I think if it weren't for the clamping down of the health care systems and quarantining we would have felt something close to a pandemic in the recent past.
Swine flu is also scary because you can go from healthy to dead in 2 days. I'm not saying we should all start panicking or anything, but I think caution on the part of the government is appropriate.
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(It was totally just for fun though, I'm not actually that paranoid)
Well, when stuff like this happens, a lot of hospitals put procedures in place that require everyone (or at the very least anyone feeling sick) to wear masks, or to wash their hands, so the stock piling is kind of necessary, because the demand will be up.
And actually, I don't think it's a bad idea for our health care systems to worry about such things. Historically there have been pandemics that have wiped out entire percentages of the population. We've also become a global community and it's so easy for these diseases to jump countries and continents now. I think if it weren't for the clamping down of the health care systems and quarantining we would have felt something close to a pandemic in the recent past.
Swine flu is also scary because you can go from healthy to dead in 2 days. I'm not saying we should all start panicking or anything, but I think caution on the part of the government is appropriate.