More Swine Flu

As a precautionary measure to protect children against swine flu, many schools are sending out emails, making parents and children aware, and some are even closing for a small period of time. Lourdes Lee Valeriano, one blog author, has a daughter in school and is "heartened by the attention the schools are giving the issue—and the matter-of-fact way they’re going about it." I agree with Valeriano. I think that it is very important for schools to be careful, but I like that they are doing so in a calm manner. The last thing we need is all of the children becoming paranoid about dying from swine flu. I think that the media should have the same attitude as the school systems. It does no good to anyone for the media to cause fear about swine flu. I think they chould be informative, but calm, which is opposite of what they are doing. Just googling swin flu news, I found many articles that contradicted each other. It seems that none of them really have any facts and all the news is based off of rumors. Its as if America is crowded around a campfire and all the news stations are taking turns telling a scary story, but each one has to exaggerate the numbers a little more in order to top the last one. Who knows how many people have contracted the disease or how many have died? I do know, however, that most cases in America have been treated, so Im just gonna relax. There are other things on my mind. Afterall, finals are in one week.

Read the blog at http://www.businessweek.com/careers/workingparents/blog/archives/2009/04/swine_flu_what.html