pig flu outbreak
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I guess the best way anyone has put it was in a guardian pundit article. The guy had basically turned down interviews with the BBC and Al Jazeera (who were looking for a debunk of the entire hype) and he couldn't do it. Mostly because what he saw was that this was a real threat. Not that it was definitely going to happen, and the projections were going to be true, but because the way it was happening, it was a possibility.
The way he put it was something like this:
"I assumed they were adhering, robotically, to the "balance" template, but no: he kept at it, even when I protested and explained. "Yeah, but you know, it could be like Sars and bird flu, they didn't materialise, they were hype." Simon Jenkins suggested the same thing. It's not true, I said. They were risks, risks that didn't materialise, but they were still risks. That's what a risk is. I've never been hit by a car, but it's not idiotic to think about it."