Irrational Panic

We need to realize that regular seasonal flu kills 36,000 people every year in this country, and we don't get all freaked out about that and start hyperventilating about closing schools and shutting down borders. In the week that 156 people died in Mexico from the H1N1 virus, statistically 692 people died in this country from plain old vanilla flu. That's 692 every week from the plain old flu virus that goes around every year.