In a Coma in Cozumel

Okay I know you must all be up to your limits in flu bullshit but I just have to share this. In Cozumel we have been put into a coma and the plague of the century never even got here. Now this report from the big wigs?

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The swine flu virus that has sparked fear and precautions worldwide appears to be no more dangerous than the regular flu virus that makes its rounds each year, U.S. officials said Monday.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said swine flu is no more danerous than the regular flu virus.

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"What the epidemiologists are seeing now with this particular strain of U.N. is that the severity of the disease, the severity of the flu -- how sick you get -- is not stronger than regular seasonal flu," Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Monday as the worldwide number of confirmed cases of swine flu -- technically known as 2009 H1N1 virus -- topped 1,080.

The flu has been blamed for 26 deaths: 25 in Mexico and one in the United States, according to the World Health Organization.

Still, Napolitano noted, the seasonal flu results in "hundreds of thousands of hospitalizations" and roughly 35,000 fatalities each year in the United States. There are still concerns that the virus could return in the fall, in the typical flu season, as a stronger strain.

"We are cautiously optimistic that this particular strain will not be more severe than a normal seasonal flu outbreak," Napolitano said.

So perhaps we can get on to bigger news stories now like the fact that the stock market seems to have turned up or the president is doing a good job so far or maybe Paris Hilton's dog is having hemroid surgery. You know something uplifting like that?