It obviously hasn’t just disappeared overnight, so why has the news coverage stopped, when it was wall to wall reporting only a few days ago?

Makes you wonder what the Government may have been trying to ‘bury’ at the time.

Our company has a ‘Swine Flu Policy’

In it is this gem

‘The risk of swine flu is increased if you have spent more than one hour with a probable or confirmed case of swine flu at a distance of less than one metre.’
Genius 🙄

why has the news coverage stopped

Expenses

we’ve aquired those alcohol dispenser things (handwash, not optics 🙁 )

It’s been renamed…

Hamthrax

why has the news coverage stopped,

a) something new and exciting (expenses) has taken its place
b) there’s only so long they can keep flogging a dead horse of a non event of a story.

Ha, they have had to take those alchohol hand dispensers out at the local hospital because people keep eating the gel!

Someone in our village has it now.

Well swine flu turned up just in time to help make people forget about the G20 violence. The gov. have blown ham-cold out of all proportion and did a great job of getting the G20 protest assaults off the front covers.

I wonder what they are going to do to get the expenses scam’s off the front pages.

If this was America i guess they would just find another country to bomb.

swin flu was on the radio this morning.
Apparently the only pig in Afghanistan has been put in quarantine…

There was a thing about it on the news the other night, saying they expected about a 1/3 of the worlds population would catch it this year, and they’d be expecting about 3 deaths for every 1000 people who do catch it.

Didn’t Egypt cull about 25,000 pigs when it was announced, even though there were no cases reported within their stocks? Madness I tell you, madness.

Just jike regular flu then FunkyNick.

Right. So we will probably catch it, but we’ll struggle to care. They initially made it sound like 28 Days Later. 🙄

the gov. have blown ham-cold out of all proportion

The government don’t control the World Health Organisation.

Right. So we will probably catch it, but we’ll struggle to care. They initially made it sound like 28 Days Later.

Initially they weren’t sure how fatal it would prove. The number of deaths in Mexico suggested it was fairly lethal, but fortunately there have been far fewer deaths in other countries so there may be other factors at work (secondary infection, mutation, poor healthcare, inaccurate figures etc) in the Mexican deaths.

Flus naturally die off during the summer anyway so there may yet be a serious resurgence next winter – but you can hardly report that every day.

The official response was entirely justified IMHO. The media hype however was not.