Comments on: Take a deep breath, Swine Flu’s not that bad

By: Martine Baboin

Martine Baboin — Wed, 27 May 2009 02:36:54 +0000

My apologies for the terrible spelling mistakes in my last post to you. I am French and English isn’t my forte.
Excusez-moi!

By: martine Baboin

martine Baboin — Wed, 27 May 2009 02:27:50 +0000

Great to read what I always thought about the sine flue. I knew that the swine flew is just a media’s trick to sell their papers. I don’t have a good opinion about ‘journalisterie’ this is a word that I made up myself, it expresses bad quality journalism.

By: Richard Wilson

Richard Wilson — Mon, 25 May 2009 06:01:53 +0000

This is the first rational article on 2009 version Swine Flu I have read. Congrats!

By: stephen martin

stephen martin — Mon, 25 May 2009 05:01:23 +0000

A welcome breath of sanity!

By: Anthony

Anthony — Mon, 25 May 2009 04:52:54 +0000

Thank you Peter. It’s great to finally read an article on this flu that communicates the truth rather than the sensationalized fiction on offer in the mainstream media.

I’ve been particularly disappointed with The Age, which I once regarded as the more reasonable of the mainstream media outlets, but have stopped reading ever since they began trying to scare the c**p out of their readers with this non-event.

The beat up by the media (and therefore the over-the-top response from WHO and our federal government) is just one more reminder of why we need alternative media in this country.

By: daveliberts

daveliberts — Mon, 25 May 2009 03:44:19 +0000

Great article. You can bet bottom dollar most media will ignore this type of thinking though because it certainly doesn’t sell newspapers like “YOU’RE ALL GOING TO DIE” headlines do.

A level of caution (as we are seeing in the current response) is appropriate. Panic is definitely not.