Swine Flu Update (Chances are it WON'T get you)

Finally, a new source has published some of the facts about swine flu, that is H1N1 for those on the political correctness band wagon, from the CBC News:

Dr. Richard Schabas, chief medical officer of health for Hastings and Prince Edward Counties in eastern Ontario, said the H1N1 influenza outbreak needs to be put into proper perspective.

About 200,000 people die in Canada every year from all causes combined, including about 4,000 from seasonal flu.

"By the time all the dust has settled on H1N1, somewhere between 200 and 300 people will have died in this country," Schabas said Thursday during a panel on media coverage of H1N1 on CBC News The National.

You can read the full story.

So from those numbers, you have a whopping 0.2% chance of getting killed by the swine flu, you are 13-20 times more likely to die from the regular seasonal flu, have you dies from that yet (my guess is no).