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We'd like to point out that swine flu so far has killed two people in the United States that we're aware of. Meanwhile, roughly 13,000 U.S. citizens have died of the more traditional flu thus far in 2009. That mounts up to four people per hour, every hour of every day. Yet we read or hear virtually nothing about it.

We also don't read or hear, according to last Saturday's New York Times, that "more people die of loneliness or lard. More people died in a few minutes when a man went berserk in Binghamton, NY last month. Since August, there have been 14 deaths by gun in schools in the United States.

"So far, no more than 25 people are confirmed as having died in Mexico from the swine flu, compared with more than 6,000 killed by drug violence in that country last year. In 1976, a young soldier died of an earlier version of swine flu; the United States launched a mass vaccination program that, some experts say, ultimately killed more people than the disease itself."