Pandemic sounds really bad doesn't it? Sounds like a mash-up of the words panic, pandemonium and epidemic. And epidemic sounds bad enough on its own.
The WHO (World Health Organization, not to Roger Daltrey et al) have changed the status of the influenza A(H1N1) virus to pandemic status. Basically this means that the outbreak is in a number of countries not that the virus has become any more aggressive or harder to treat.
Clearly swine flu is something which we need to take seriously but not something we should panic about. I can't help think that a better word than pandemic would help calm the nerves slightly.
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How times have changed - news once being designed to abate/minimize panic and alarm. The rather alarming word "pandemic" derives from Late Latin "pandemus/ from Greek "pandemos" meaning "of all the people".
I still have ham on the pizza.
Only 900 odd people in the UK have this flu and no-one's died of it in the UK. Yet the response is out of all proportion to the threat, with the government and NHS administrators wasting millions of pounds hyping it all up. No wonder the NHS is so inefficient and bordering on collapse.
What do they call something where lots of people are actually dying & we all get put under curfew till it passes?
Just been listenin to a doctor from east dulwich who says it's milder than normal winter flu.
Yes we should find a better word,
how about
moronicpanickingretards
that should do it
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