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By Eugene Robinson | Tuesday, April 28, 2009 | The Washington Post

“…The 1918 flu pandemic killed an estimated 50 million people worldwide. There is no evidence that the new strain of swine flu is anywhere near as deadly as the 1918 flu, and, in fact, the cases identified in the United States thus far have caused only one hospitalization and no deaths. But officials are declaring emergencies and monitoring the spread of the disease so closely because they know, in tragic detail, what havoc a 1918-style flu would bring….”…BS

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/27/AR2009042702694_pf.html