Eclipse and the swine flu statistics

From about 4am I have been listening to people talk about the total eclipse in Asia this morning and I was waiting for a particular answer and it never happened. If somebody had asked me what I had seen during a total eclipse it woyuld not be solar flares or anything like that, it would be nothing because everything had gone dark.

And are the reports on swine flu getting on your nerves. The newsreader on the BBC this morning just randomly threw in the figure that 30 people had now died in the UK since its outbreak. OK, every death is sad but how long has swine flu been about. It went into remission during the MP expenses scandal but has now returned. Next time they come out with these random statistics don’t you think they should compare it with the number of people who have died with normal flu, by violent crime or by drunken drivers during the same time so we can get this all in proportion.