Chicken Flu Panic 2007

We act at times like frightened little children. And the mainstream media know it. And play to it.

In 2005 it was a crisis involving the disturbing lack of flu vaccinations. Last year it was the Bird Flu Pandemic. This year it's Staph Infection Lusus Naturae. Prepare to die. Again:

Schools in Several States Report Staph Infections, and Deaths Raise the Alarm
By Ian Urbina, The New York Times

School officials around the country have been scrambling this week to scrub locker rooms, reassure parents and impress upon students the importance of good hygiene. The heightened alarm comes in response to a federal report indicating that the bacteria, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, are responsible for more deaths in the United States each year than AIDS.

On Wednesday and Thursday, scores of schools were closed and events were canceled in Connecticut, Maryland, North Carolina, Ohio and Virginia as cleaning crews disinfected buses, lockers and classrooms. More closings are planned on Friday.

School officials in Mississippi, New Hampshire and Virginia reported student deaths within the past two weeks from the bacteria, while officials in at least four other states reported cases of students being infected. (link)

Doesn't this call for federal action? A new department or something? An increase in estate taxes? A segment on Oprah? A colonoscopy of Katie Couric's rear end?

May God have mercy.