The greatest thing about H1N1 is that it heightened social anxiety that is now out of control.

If government’s can’t control their message and act as the source for all direction, in a country with a national health care program and billions being dumped to support its existence, then people need to take this cue and start figuring things out for themselves.

Cudos to the media for enabling all of this ridiculousness. But like every other catastrophic doomsday prediction of the recent past – Y2K, moldy alfalfa sprouts, mad cow disease, etc. it’s great TV. But it’s starting to make humanity look like complete idiots.

In the last week, as the flu started to sweep across Canada with a predictable vengeance immediately after a 13 year old young rising hockey superstar from Ontario died, supposedly from H1N1, the circus began. I grieve for his parents but I don’t know if the media’s play on this was necessary. But it was unavoidable.

Since then, most in the media who use superficial, blown-out of-proportion, simpleminded techniques to attract an audience trying to educate the masses now finds themselves not being taken seriously. Right now they are forced to deal with issues that require actual facts that are effective. All of it is proving difficult for a lot of Canadian media to decipher and disseminate because high level of intelligence and true journalism is required. What can you say and what does one really learn in 30 second clips?

If I wanted to learn what leadership was being taken from our elected officials who actually are supposed to be in charge of all this stuff, I can watch House of Commons on CPAC or some television channel in the 500’s. But I would have to endure a whole bunch of monkeys jumping up and down yelling, whistling and heckling. No thank you, I have already raised my children.

So to those of you who challenge the system and this way of operation and who do not trust sources of information that are either publicly or privately funded, which most of us have NO control over, good on you. I just honestly hope this thing is not as bad as predicted because our whole health care system will be exposed for the hypocrisy it is.

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