Over the past few weeks, people have been going crazy over the news that the H1N1 flu virus (which you may also know as the swine flu virus) is spreading across the globe. When the swine flu virus started appearing in Mexico, it killed a significant amount of people (many of who were previously healthy young adults). While swine flu has continued to spread throughout the world (appearing in everywhere from the United States to Australia), it’s percentage of fatalities have decreased significantly. The strange thing is that while you can look at the facts and see that the deadliness of this flu virus has decreased, people and officials seem just as worried as ever. While I find it strange that there is still such a high level of worry about swine flu, a lot of nations are still taking steps to try and lessen the fears of their citizens.

Because I planned it over three months ago, I have decided that regardless of all these swine flu worries, I am not canceling that trip I have planned. I already planned on taking a trip to Manchester in the middle of the summer, and I’m not going to let this swine flu issue deter me from visiting Manchester (which is a place I have wanted to go for awhile now). Since I have already taken care of booking my hotel room, Manchester airport car rental and flight, it would take something much more serious than this current swine flu issue for me to cancel my whole trip. Fortunately, since there is still some time until my trip starts, I’m hoping people will have calmed down about swine flu and moved on to the next thing that the media is making a big deal out of!