Swine Flu: Is "Fear Itself" Dooming Our Country of Wimps Who Prefer Emotional Reaction Over Real Thinking?

I really worry that our country is doomed.


We are not only heading toward socialism/economic fascism ("socialism with a capitalist veneer"), and abandoning every principle upon which this country was founded. We are becoming unable to deal, as a society, with the ordinary problems of existence. We panic and overreact to everything. Yes, this has a lot to do with a really, truly contemptible mainstream media, but the people of this country seem to have becomme terminally "soft"--wanting the government to "protect" them from every single adversity of life, even when they have to know that it is impossible.


Thus, we cn no longer bear a recession without panicking. That has pushed us down this road to economic fascism.


We can no longer handle hurricanes. That is, EMOTIONALLY, we are unable to handle the inevitable adversity of hurricanes.


And we no longer can handle outbreaks of disease (unless it is something like AIDS, where we can condemn people to death by treating it as a "politically correct" problem of homosexual tolerance than a real pandemic to be stopped).


As this blog has previosly told you, more people have died from CELERY and SPINACH in this dountry than have died from bird flu or SARS. Now we have this swine flu "scare", and again we have irresponsible talk of a "pandemic". As yet, of course--especially in the United Statesl--there is no indication that the swine flu is even as big a problem as a normal flu outbreak (every year). Normal flu outbreaks KILL people every year. Celery, lspinach and peanuts may still have killed more people in this country than swine flu, and we overreacted to THOSE (contaminated celery, spinach and peanuts).


Meanwhile, some 43,000 people DIE EVERY YEAR in traffic accidents. I can't tell you how stupid you are if you panic over wine flu, and ccancel travel plans, even as you jump in your car every day as if you were not engaging in a dangerous activity. My problem is that I am coming arund to the belief that the stupid people are taking over.


Nope. I don't buy the idea that it is necessary to OVERREACT to take reasonable steps to monitor and address new disease/health threats as they arrive.


Let me put it as bluntly as I can: ANY person who has used the word "pandemic" in this present situation should simply be SHOT. That is my own version of panic overreaction. If we don't toughen up as a country, so that we do not destroyu orselves with fear itself, then we truly are doomed.


If "all we have to fear is fear itself" (FDR), then we are well on the way to the point that panic is the only rational reaction. "Fear itself" is taking over.