scaring myself

i hate it when they say that:
~ the ah1n1 virus is a mild strain.
~ the ah1n1 is just like the seasonal flu, and that more people die because of dengue and other diseases yearly.
~ the mortality rate of the ah1n1 flu is low.
~ you could treat the flu symptomatically.  drink lots of fluids, get lots of rest, eat lots of veggies, take your meds religiously, and you’re good to go.

what they’re all saying might be true, but it’s out of control in our country right now, damn it!

and then they give you big whacks on the head with reports like:
~ the virus might mutate, and whatever medicines and remedies worked for the first strain might not work for the mutated one.
~ vaccines are now being developed and will be ready for consumption in about two to three months, but if the virus mutates, the vaccine is going to be useless.
~ the number of patients suffering from ah1n1 is still going to increase significantly, might even reach millions!

but here’s the biggest whack they gave us, by far:
~ what we see here might just be the first wave.  there might be a second wave or a third wave like what happened with the spanish flu.  and these waves carried with it a far deadlier mutation of the novel spanish flu virus, killing millions and millions of people.  experts say that the virus infected an estimated number of 500 million out of 1.6 billion people or one-third of the world’s population during 1918 to 1920, and it killed 50 to 100 million of those who were infected.  in fact, the spanish flu was considered as “the greatest medical holocaust in history,” and it had also been said that the spanish flu was a far more deadlier killer than the black death itself.

i know am scaring myself, probably increasing my bp at the same time, but wouldn’t you be scared if the mexican swine flu follows the same trend like the spanish flu did?

on a lighter note, the medical world and its people and modern facilities might be better prepared for this, unlike during the spanish flu period, but then again, with hundreds of millions of people becoming infected, crowding hospitals and medical facilities, and then millions of them dying, who’s to say that we really are prepared?  and that it won’t be a black death or a spanish flu all over again?

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