This Breakpoint commentary is pretty much where I stand on the swine flu question, except I am more suspicious of the hype than Colson.
Life as a Disaster Movie
He says something that deserves lots of consideration: the spirit of fear permeates the atmosphere, and much of that is unwarranted.
Excerpt:
The reporting and the rhetoric is part of what British sociologist Frank Furedi calls the “dramatization of disease.” The media and public officials “sound as if they are rehearsing their roles for a disaster movie”—a movie through which we express “our anxieties about everyday life.”
LC
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