Altho the h1n1 panic is at a fever pitch at this time, it’s a safe bet that by summer 2010 the swine flu issue will have faded off into the boneyard of vaccine memorabilia. Policymakers have well separate that this queer type of illusion has a finite shelf life, due in no little portion to the ever-shortening attention span of the collective american mentality.
We ought to recall that the commotion in recent years over smallpox, anthrax, sars, and avian flu lasted only as long as essential for the drug and vaccine funds to be allocated. Once that happens, there’s no longer any motive to carry on to fan the flames of pandemic hysteria – a media campaign like that requires so much campaign, and costs so much cash to maintain, especially for a disease that never existed originally.
Any individual paying even moderate attention to the parade of emergencies that have been making their appearance recently with nearly routine regularity, might start out to be desensitized to the urgency of these situations, vaguely remembering that since they survived the last one, well they’ll in all likelihood survive this one in addition.
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