Light reading

Think about this.... You wake up in the morning and it is all over the news and in the papers. Thousands have died from Avian Flu. The new N5H1 strain has claimed its first 1 thousand victims and shous no signs of stopping. Every yahoo in the USofA would be running out clogging the streets buying surgical masks and antibacterial spray. Now take this information in the right context and see how the media can stur the pot. Normal strains of flu claim 36000 lives a year. Yes!.. 36000! But you dont see everyone running around like a bunch of idiots panicing over nothing. You might expect the next few times you leave a publicly used area you might use that waterless antibacterial gel after hearing these statistics. I just wish that the media would have a resposibility to report things in the right context and not over dramatize things. Maybe my dreams will calm down. I have had a feeling that ever since 9-11 that something catastrophic will happen. I aint talking about a tsunami half way around the world or a couple of hurricanes that cause a little flooding in the low lands of the southern states. I mean Earth changing. Your life will no longer be the same type catastrophic. I am still waiting for that other shoe to fall. I hope the catastrophy isnt caused by the media over dramatisizing something that happens every single day. Can you say spin city?