I have to believe that we might be acting just a bit overly alarmist over the swine flu craze that sweeping the nation. As I post this, I understand there have been fewer than a hundred deaths in the world, but the masses are in a state of panic.

On the other hand, “on average in 2008, between 102 and 103 people were killed on the roadways of the U.S. each day“ (thanks Wikipedia), but there were no (well, few) calls to have all the cars destroyed. Millions and millions have been killed in wars (Wikipedia you’re wonderful!), but I’m not getting WiscAlerts about it.

Call me callous and spoiled, but isn’t it just the tiniest bit odd that we freak out about the “Swine Flu Pandemic” (not official yet, but preset in its title), while cars and wars and obesity and pollution and guns and heart disease and a thousand other far-more-deadly things are part of our everyday life?

We should at least be allowed to joke about it.

“Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers.” — Bill Cosby