Reply #4: Not everything is a red herring

[SquireJons]

The good people at the Center for Infectious Disease would probably say you're full of chicken manure. It's not the one death here and one there that has people worried. It's the fact that completely healthy people are dying when they get this flu strain, and there isn't a damned thing they can do about it. Remember SARS? If and when (they say not if but when) one of these things mutates into a cross species strain, it will cause a world wide pandemic and could kill tens or hundreds of millions of people, predominately the young and old. It happened in 1918 and there's no reason to think it won't happen again. Not something to be ridiculed, imo.