The Swine Flu Crisis Is Now Over -- or Will Be

As the WHO raises its warning to just this side of official pandemic, and Joe Biden tells his family to avoid confined spaces, the backlash is also setting in.
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As the WHO raises its warning to just this side of official pandemic, and Joe Biden tells his family to avoid confined spaces, the backlash is also setting in. The LA Times reports that scientists are already beginning to relax and that the swine flu (aka H1N1) may be a lot less menacing than the plain old flu. And the pork industry is striking back, worrying that it will become as tainted as, well, Mexico.

There is, too, an overnight growth in swine conspiracy theories: e.g. Mexican drug cartels and al-Qaeda have combined their vaunted scientific expertise to manufacture the virus.

The conspiracy theories might better be directed at the hysteria rather than the virus. Who, in other words, is responsible for the outbreak of alarm and panic and media exhortations?

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