I agree with what you guys said about the (Western) media blowing everything out of proportion. So far, the swine flu's mortality rate is friggin' low and the only reason why it's called a pandemic is because the speed of its spread from human to human. It's highly likely you'll get it in the future, but unlikely that you'll die from it. Unlike SARS, which was pretty scary a few years back, for Asia especially.

Latest reports from BBC indicate the severity of swine flu dying down in Mexico but the WHO chief Margaret Chan's warning everyone against complacency. It's apparently spreading quickly across the US however. Even though everything's kinda exaggerated, I do hope no one here or anywhere else gets it; being sick is no fun.