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On air: Does swine flu show the rich world can’t handle a crisis?

Here in Indianapolis, Indiana the 24 hour news channels are still filled with reports, advice, discussions, interactive maps, questions and not to many answers about the swine flu. And a quick skirt around international news websites shows it’s still the top story in much of the developed world. But is it all overreaction? When a plane crew refuses to board a plane headed to Mexico, and Russia bans meat imported from America because of flu fears, does it show that in countries where we generally have life pretty good, that we overreact when things go slightly not according to plan?

Are we really panicking about swine flu?

The World Health Organization has raised the alert for swine flu to level five and is warning a pandemic is imminent.

So are we really panicking or not? This blogger thinks the fear is real, and this paper says there’s panic in New York. But this blog says there isn’t.

Goodbye, and thank you Kokomo, Indiana

Shaimaa and I jumped in our hire care today for the last time to hit US Highway 31, the road that cuts through Kokomo that we have come to know so well over the last couple of days. This time we were headed south to Indianapolis, leaving for the last time.