Swine Flu Hype?

Help me understand all the hype about the Swine Flu. Yes, a couple hundred people have been confirmed dead in Mexico, (RIP) but what I have heard over and over this week is that 30,000 Americans die of the normal everday kind of flu everyear. WHAT? Why does this not get the attention it deserves. 30,000 of our fellow Americans die of the flu each year. Where is the CDC (Center for Diesease Control) and WHO (World Health Organization) when an outbreak is affecting Americans, but is considered a pandemic when the H1N1 (swine flu) kills a couple hundred in Mexico. Maybe that just proves the argument against "Socialized Medicine"

There has been a massive recall of Hydroxycut this week due to one death and 23 people having adverse reactions affecting their liver. Each life is precious but out of 350 million Americans the odds are extremely low for it affecting you. Maybe there were other factors in these people's lives that affected their liver. Remember a few years ago Ephedrine was taken off the market in the hot summer due to some people exercising outside, including a professional athlete that overheated and died. Well I took it and lost over 50 pounds in 2003 and wasn't adversly affected, but since the recall I haven't been able to lose a pound. . . .