The Cathcarts

I am SOOO sick of hearing about this stupid swine flu!  I woke up this morning and turned on The Today Show and of course, what did they spend the first 15 mintues talking about, nothing but the swine flu.  And then I hear that Gov. Culver is going to declare Iowa a "public health disaster" if these whole two cases are confirmed as the swine flu.  Are you kidding me??!!  Then I heard Meredith Viera ask a Dr. guest on the show if we were doing enough to protect ourselves against the swine flu?  I wanted to scream!!   VP Biden also said on TV this morning that he has told his family to not get on an airplane or any type of public transportation.  Way to go Joe!  Do you tell your family to avoid all public transportation during regular flu season from October-March?  I think everyone is going way overboard with this flu thing.  If they want to get so excited about something, why don’t they get excited about the regular ol’ respiratory flu that kills THOUSANDS every year, or AIDS, which is also a virus, that is killing people every minute. . . or cancer (not a virus) that is also killing every minute.  I think it is also hilarious how people are walking around with surgical masks on when they don’t even filter out viruses.  Let’s get a grip on things.  In the meantime, I’m going to go eat a big ol’ pork burger.