Total flu deaths in USA in 2008: 36,000.
What crisis?
You've got to understand - the government needs a crisis so that they can convince people that they have the answer to our problem. The concocted "pandemic" is designed with one purpose in mind - government takeover of health care. It's all about power.
Do you know where the CDC gets their 36K flu deaths a year number? Which just started being repeated in 2003? No?
They got it from statistical modelling, winter deaths compared to summer deaths. The actual figures of flu fatalies given by the CDC to the American Lung Association range from 800 odd to 1300 odd for the last ten or so years.
The 36K number is invented out of whole cloth. And most of the seasonal flu deaths - 90 to 95% - are the elderly.
Swine flu is killing people under 50.