Yeah when I first heard about the flu, I looked up mortality statistics in Australia, and was quite suprise how many people die each year here in Australia.
http://www.health.nsw.gov.au/publich...infpneudth.asp
So really I think it's a bit too early for me to sell up and move to the country lol (isolate myself). But time will tell, I reckon the next few weeks we'll know if it's going to be a problem or not.
I read an interesting 'conspiracy', which basically says that it's a huge media beatup with the intent of laying blame on 'god' so to speak for the worsening economic downturn. ie 'look we tryed our best to stimulate spending etc, but now 'god' has brought this flu thing down on us, thus every one stays at home, spends less, creating more of an economic slowdown'. Economic collapse brings us one step closer to a 'New World Order' - one world government, one class of people etc etc etc.
Damn Youtube...