Kelo: Assuaging my swine flu fears

Kelo ran a story on the swine flu noting that health officials for the State of South Dakota are telling us not to worry.

It's about friggin' time.

As I noted in an earlier post, perhaps much of this paranoia was media-created. After all, the regular flu still kills more people each year in America than swine flu ever will - 36,000 in total. For you math geeks out there, that's 100 people per day dying of the flu. I don't see a media frenzy over that factoid, so perhaps we can admit now that we blew things out of proportion?

And what's more, like a good liberal, I was watching Bill Maher the other night. Bill had some great thoughts on swine flu, people who don't believe in evolution, and faith-based initiatives:

And finally, New Rule: Since viruses, like swine flu, get to be potentially deadly because they "evolved," if you don't believe in evolution and you get it, you have to pray it away.

You can't crap all over Darwin and stem cell research and global warming and then come crawling back to science when you want Tamiflu. That's for us sinners.