Mickey wrote:
So, what happened to the swine flu scare? It suddenly seems to have disappeared. What's the next thing to be terrified of?

A1. Big Pharma got their money for the vaccines we didn't need.
A2. Islamic take over of the world.

Seems like Big Brother always endeavors to keep us unbalanced. That way they have cause to come in and lead us in the way (BB thinks) we need to be lead, such as putting new policies in place (that diminish our freedoms even more).
The swine flu scare (similar to the one back in '76) was a way of getting us to focus on something else while BB deftly and swiftly reaches into our pocket to yank out our wallet, all the while causing us to become fearful of the world, (and therefore reliant/dependant upon him), thus paving the way to put those policies into action.
I's a good scam, cuz we seem to keep falling for it...