Sunday, August 16, 2009

WHY THE HYPE

WHY THE HYPE??????????????????

Swine Flu…Swine Flu…… everywhere, TV 9 or NDTV it’s everywhere. Not a single channel which doesn’t have it (Even my company's Intranet has got it).

It’s ruthless- not the disease by itself but the paranoia surrounding it. Look at every other person out there, everybody’s wearing a mask; so much so that people haven’t spared our gods of the masks (look at the today’s Times of India edition).
I would like to ask everyone out there, don’t we see an outbreak of deadlier forms of viral fever, dengue, cholera, chikunguniya …….. you name it and we have it as regular seasonal visitor.
Just because something originates from the US or the UK we take it seriously- be it technology, recession or diseases.
Is it really worth all the media attention and hype when the west itself has taken it lightly?
Think again- Of a billion people only few hundreds are afflicted by this and everybody wants to wear a mask, but we have a million people affected with AIDS and nobody wants to wear a Condom.

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