Steven Wayne
Windermere
Swine Flu, continued...
Posted on May 2, 2009
Most readers of The Bits blog reside in the US. However, I just received an email from my old friend Tom who lives in Baja, Mexico.
He objected strenuously to the tone and tenor of my entry that was focused on the over-reaction and media sensationalize-ing in the coverage of Swine Flu. In part, Tom responds:
"Your blog about the flu has totally pissed me off. You call it the "virus of the month", while people are dying. Even doctors nurses and interns who are treating the sick are dying here. When did you become such an uncaring a**hole. This is serious where I live and people like you don't give a damn about it.
**ck You.
good thing i didn't write this yesterday, I was even more upset."
I frankly knew the initial blog entry could be read as insensitive, and while I truly do feel sympathy for victims of the flu, I feel sympathy for the victims of malaria, cancers, or other diseases. And the economic effects in Mexico are apparently even more widespread than the actual virus.
Bottom line, I am not alone in sensing opportunism on the part of our media, as they indeed do sensationalize to bolster readership:
Thanks for your letter, Tom.
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