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What do you make of all this business of the swine flu? I watch these news stories with all these people walking around wearing masks and wonder what to make of the whole thing. I guess because my whole life I have been around people that have gotten and recovered from the flu, I find it hard to comprehend something that normally comes and goes as being as deadly as they are making this flu strain out to be.

It is difficult for me to be as scared as many people are being, but it can happen that millions of people could die from a resistant flu strain. When I was in college a wrote a paper about the flu pandemic that occurred in the early 1900′s and if you read what I read when I was researching this paper, you would be taking every possible precaution to guard against coming in contact with anyone.

The bad thing about these flu strains is a person is contagious before they have symptoms. So, you could be in contact today with someone that is fine and tomorrow they could have symptoms and you would have already been exposed. In the pandemic of the 1900s a person could have no symptoms and be dead in less than 48 hours.

Millions of people died back in the 1900′s and I believe if we were exposed to a strain that deadly today we would be in a lot of trouble. With international travel being what it is, this virus could literally become global with a matter of a few days.

I live within a few miles of a business that markets medical masks and surgical gloves and at the current time they are not being affected by the economy in the least. There sales have increased ten fold and they are working overtime to get their shipments out for delivery.

I think the current outbreak may be on its way out, but there is still a lot to be said for hand washing.