The problem is that there are some people who are legitimately scared. No, your average, healthy adult has nothing to worry about. However, for the people with ‘underlying health conditions’, this is way scarier than the seasonal flu because with the seasonal flu you can get vaccinated and go on with your life, but with the swine flu there’s no vaccine they can take yet so they can’t protect themselves and the virus also spreads a lot faster. So, if there’s an outbreak, paranoia is completely understandable for those at ‘high risk’.
For the rest of the population who’s perfectly healthy and doesn’t have a tiny infant or anything like that to worry about, they really should get over this.
The only people legitimately scared are the people in such poor health that the need to be scared EVERY flu season. Everybody else is acting like an idiot, and we’ve got the vast quantity of Purrell bottles around work to show there’s WAY too many people acting like idiots.