A Crisis is a Terrible Thing to Waste

I'm getting a little tired of the crisis mongering that is going on. CHECK IT OUT The government should not be in the professional agitation business. C.S. Lewis had it exactly right when he gave his inaugural address de descriptione temporum in 1954 at Cambridge.
He said:"...The change is this. In all previous ages that I can think of the principal aim of rulers, except at rare and short intervals, was to keep their subjects quiet, to forestall or extinguish widespread excitement and persuade people to attend quietly to their several occupations. And on the whole their subjects agreed with them. They even prayed (in words that sound curiously old-fashioned) to be able to live "a peaceable life in all godliness and honesty" and "pass their time in rest and quietness". But now the organisation of mass excitement seems to be almost the normal organ of political power. We live in an age of "appeal if drives", and "campaigns". Our rulers have become like schoolmasters and are always demanding "keenness". And you notice that I am guilty of a slight archaism in calling them "rulers". "Leaders" is the modem word. I have suggested elsewhere that this is a deeply significant change of vocabulary. Our demand upon them has changed no less than theirs on us. For of a ruler one asks justice, incorruption, diligence, perhaps clemency; of a leader, dash, initiative, and (I suppose) what people call "magnetism" or "personality". ..."
The bottom line is that Swine Flu that is getting everyone up in arms is pretty much a flu like any other. It's no more or less virulent than any other flu. So get over it everyone. If you catch it stay home. But don't get in a big snit.
This is the government stirring the pot and it gets damned annoying.