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  You left out the specifics...first of all swine flu is not a pandamic. But amoung the sky is falling liberals it is cause they are so bad at math (a million is almost as much as a trillion according to Obama). You have a better chance to win the lottery then catching this, and even if you did, the chances are even slimmer that you will die from it. More people die from the normal flue then swine flu. As always, the weak (liberals) and the aged, who can die from the common cold, need to be careful but that is with everything. But if you want to donate YOUR money to this, why go ahead! But you have no right to take mine.

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