Contrary to earlier misinformed reports that the death toll from the H1N1 "Don't Call It Swine or Mexican" Influenza panic-demic was in the "hundreds", Mexico's Health Minister, Jose Angel Cordova, has confirmed that 22 people are now dead of the swine flu with 568 lab-tested infections. Most of those deaths are from Mexico City, which is notorious for its high pollution.

Compared to the seasonal influenza death toll, these numbers don't even appear on the radar. Not to say that any death isn't tragic, but the overblown media coverage isn't warranted by these numbers. That may be why they discuss hypotheticals and what "could" happen "if" a contrived set of circumstances were to come about.