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Community | October 28, 2009 | 1 comment

The United States of Hysteria

source: http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-10-27/the-united-states-of-hysteria/?cid...

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When President Obama declared the swine-flu outbreak a national emergency, he tapped into America’s time-honored tendency to freak out.

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  atomiclegion
- people die of the normal flu a lot more than this one.
  
  Let's give into the media freakout
- 2 years ago
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