Yesterday when I was watching the news on TV, I was really apalled. In Mexiko, in Egypt, in China … states of emergencies, mass slaughter of pigs, deserted public places, people with face masks, shear horror on the screen. They count the deceased penny by penny, they revise the figures day by day. There is a chaos of opinions and hear and say around us, to whom to listen, whom to trust? It seems all so very arbitrary. Some countries practice de-escalation others escalation.
A blog post from the New Scientist tries to sober the situation a little bit. I like that.They say that the name swine flu is very misleading and misleading is the term influenza A (H1N1).