On the cover of USA Today was a story about the swine flu. I noticed that many students have written about this, so I wanted to take this in a different direction. Although the cover story was about the swine flu, there was also an editorial that went with a different abgle on the story, so I wanted to look at that. After reading the article I decided that I wanted to write a letter to the editor:
To the Editor:
“Worldwide flu cases top 700” (article USA Today, 5/2/09), states that “the world still lingers just shy of a full-out pandemic”. The overall tone of the article seems to over estimate the swine flu and magnify its severity. Sure people have died and fallen ill to the swine flu, but the regular flu, which affects people every year, kills many more people than the swine flu has. Why should the swine flu be a major pandemic when the regular flu has proven more deadly in previous years? The article should have attempted to calm people about the ‘pandemic’ and show how it is not as bad as it seems when compared to the regular flu.
Sincerely,
Nico Scerbo
Ramapo College of New Jersey Student
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