(Yorkshire in bloom)My 9 yrs old daughter hardly slept last night. I was worried she was poorly or she had some problems at school, but just before leaving the house she burst out in tears and told me “Mum, I do not want to die of swine flu!”. I quickly tried to reassure her and off she went still worried but with a bit of trust in her mummy who said that everything was under control? But is it? I think the hype around the flu is already getting so huge that our kids have already started feeling the strain. TV is full of it, even the kids’ channels talk about the deaths in Mexico, the cases in Scotland and definitive spreading all over the world. I’m worried, as most of us probably are, but mainly for this confused amount of information thrown at us from all over. How can we face a pandemic if we cannot face our own information system?
CBBC [a BBC children channel in the UK] was highlighting this morning in their Newsround the sick school children in NYC and the fact that the Governor of California had declared a state of emergency. Are these good measures not to spread panic among the population? Or perhaps don’t they consider children part of the population? Of course we want to be informed but what about our children? Don't’ they deserve to get on with their lives and let us worry about this kind of issues?
