What do you guys think? Do people have a reason to be freaking out, or are they all just worrying over nothing?

Personally, I think it's been blown WAY out of proportion. I live right next to Mexico (about an hour from the border) and let me tell you, everybody's running scared at the smallest little sniffle. Almost all the schools in all the big cities are being shut down for the next two + weeks.

I mean, yeah, people are getting sick, but it's like having the freaking flu. You feel like crap for two weeks, and then everything's hunkydory again. In Mexico it was pretty bad. There was close to 600 confirmed cases of Swine Flu, and a total of 25 Deaths (According to the New York Times) Here in the US, so far, there have been a grand total of 279 cases, and 1 death. The death being a 23 month old little boy who, was a citizen of Mexico visiting family here in Texas. So the ONE death attributed to the United States wasn't even that of a US citizen.

Now, this is horrible, I admit that. And I feel sorry for the all the people who have gotten sick and/or died. But did you know that (according to Web MD) 36 THOUSAND people die from the regular flu (and flu-related complications) And 200 thousand are hospitalized in a typical flu season? So why is the media, and everybody else, freaking out about this relatively small number of deaths?

Has the Swine Flu affected you where you live?