Originally Posted by
Draconius
News flash!
There are 309 MILLION people in America and 141 people have it. That is 0.00004563106796116505% of the population! How is that a mass hysteria?!?!?! More people contract MANY other diseases every minute.
This reminds me of an episode of House where he was on a plane and invoked mass hysteria and everyone on the plane got it, however, it was just a pure fake.
problem is thats 140 people who should not have got it.
Its a contagious disease and these are usually exponential in growth.
10 years ago, we'd be all sick.. there was no system to track who was infected and where they are...
after the SARS scare, infectious persons tracking increased dramatically.. right now people know exactly who is and who might be infected... and its STILL spreading..
luckily for us its not some superfast, supereffective killer virus... its just a flu.... but if it was.. :nervous: