Swine Flu

This is just what I have been thinking about the swine flu...when the press discusses the swine flu, they state these facts about deaths and prevention in a panicked manner and thus making the audience scared as well. One of my teachers in high school strongly believed that the media was teamed up with George Bush in a conspiracy theory. He said that the whole SARS, bird flu, and other things like Y2K were used to scare the public to sway their thoughts from other things that were happening. While I don't necessarily believe the same is true for the swine flu, I do feel that the media is trying to scare us. Perhaps it is just another one of their tactics in order to get us to stop thinking about other things that are going on in the world because lately all I've been hearing about is the swine flu and nothing else.