Worried about swine flu? So is President Barrack Obama, as is evident by him calling it a 'national emergency'. Obama has taken action that he believes will help everyone deal with this epidemic that's sweeping the globe. This action is the ability of certain health care facilities such as Medicare, Medicaid and state Children's Health Insurance programs, to temporarily waive or modify certain requirements to help health care facilities enact emergency plans to deal with the pandemic. While this is normally flu season the swine flu has been taking America by storm with millions of people being diagnosed, I have to agree with Obama and say that this is defiantly an emergency.
While the H1N1 virus is clearly a legitimate disease I feel the swine flu scare is a little over the top. Not that many people have died from it and if it's not drastic enough to shut down school then I don't believe that its particularly devastating. So far the only change I've noticed is people washing their hands more and carrying around hand sanitizer. My little brother just got diagnosed with Swine Flu and so did a girl on my swim team, but I still live at my house and I still go to swim practice, not that I think I am immune to this disease, I just think people are taking it a little too far, not to imply that all the people that have been diagnosed aren't really sick. I'm sure they are, as far as how sick I couldn't be sure. However I'm sure that there are some that are more sick from the swine then others.
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