Reasonable enough, but could not the administration coordinate an information process via media oulets to inform the public on when they can expect the vaccine shots to be available? Where people can go if they have limited or no health care insurance? Just how dire is this flu strain perceived? We’re not getting a whole lot of information on this matter. We’ve heard a lot of “what ifs”, “what might happens”, and overall many people are outright confused.
It shouldn’t have to be this way. For what seemed like an eternity, both electronic media and government worked for months prepping people on the conversion from analogue to high-definition TV broadcasting. The government and broadcast officials laid out a specific plan for citizens to adapt to the new system. Too bad they couldn’t handle the Swine flu information with the tenacity and accuracy they did in the HD switch-over.
Right now, many of us don’t have a real, pardon the expression, ‘pulse, on this subject. It’s in the back of our minds and we don’t know whether to be fully alarmed or push it aside as just a normal case of medical jitters. And that’s just the problem. Our media isn’t helping. Almost every other day, we get conflicting accounts of the potential lethalness to this particular influenza.
via City Brights: Rich Lieberman : Swine flu media coverage: hysteria over information?.