You know that segment they sometimes do on SNL Weekend Update, "REALLY???" Where rhetorical questions are asked and answered by screaming, "REALLY?" Well, that’s how I feel right about now.

The following are some interesting headlines as of lately:

• Swine Flu Outbreak: Health officials: Swine flu may be at pandemic level soon, but not as severe a strain as feared (Yahoo News)

• World Health Organization Raises Swine Flu Alert Level (NY Times)

• CDC Readies Swine Flu Vaccine (NY Times)

• Flu Panic Drives ER Visits (FoxNews)

• Swine flu deaths ebb but virus still spreads (MSNBC)

So, you obviously realize this is all about Influezna A (H1N1) Swine Death Sentence Flu, or what I have come to determine as the largest, over reaction ... well, to be safe, I will stick to claiming ever!! (Emphasis added by me).

Consider these sobering facts:

• Each year nearly 36,000 people die from Influenza A or B

• Each year 250,000 - 500,000 people die world wide from the flu
  

Lastly, I just would to take a short moment to consider the true pandemic of 1918, right after the Great War:

"The influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 killed more people than the Great War, known today as World War I (WWI), at somewhere between 20 and 40 million people. It has been cited as the most devastating epidemic in recorded world history. More people died of influenza in a single year than in four-years of the Black Death Bubonic Plague from 1347 to 1351. Known as "Spanish Flu" or "La Grippe" the influenza of 1918-1919 was a global disaster." (http://virus.stanford.edu/uda/).