Was SwineFlu Over done in India?

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vijaykg

Vijay Govind
As a Puneite I would say yes and this was fueled by media. There was absolute chaos, people were roaming around with masks on without knowing how the masks will help. They did not know how to use the masks and there were shortage of masks. Confusion and anger is how I would like to describe the situation. As a responsible Indian we all should look at educating the common mass with basic healthcare knowledge so as our community can behave more learned in case of future crisis.
 
yes it was fueled by media but still it was done for d benefit of ppl only......to make dem aware d seriousness of d situation!!!
 
I too think it was/is over hyped in India. I live in Bangkok and we too passed thru the same situation where kids started falling sick, some schools were closed for short while, internet cafes were shut for week, but there was no panic - primarily beacuse media didint hype it. The gove came up with directive that cases need not be reported on daily basis but only once in week to avoid creating panic. There have been more deaths in Thailand due to swine Flue than in India but here govt, media and common people handled it maturely.
 
vijaykg said:
As a Puneite I would say yes and this was fueled by media. There was absolute chaos, people were roaming around with masks on without knowing how the masks will help. They did not know how to use the masks and there were shortage of masks. Confusion and anger is how I would like to describe the situation. As a responsible Indian we all should look at educating the common mass with basic healthcare knowledge so as our community can behave more learned in case of future crisis.
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Can say Vijay the media had hyped it beyond a limit. but the situation ws so dreadful that watever the awareness is today is credible to the media and secondly it is for the public safety.

Yes the issue is to educate the mass about the basic health care knowledge, which is possible using media tools to reach the masses and control epidemics like this. over hyping should be controled as many a times it leads to panic situations, as wat is described by u.

Hope to hear from you on many such things soon:SugarwareZ-057:
 
Yes, Swine Flu is over done especially in visual media. Print media seems to be more mature in handling the situation and giving the right kind of information
 
vijaykg said:
As a Puneite I would say yes and this was fueled by media. There was absolute chaos, people were roaming around with masks on without knowing how the masks will help. They did not know how to use the masks and there were shortage of masks. Confusion and anger is how I would like to describe the situation. As a responsible Indian we all should look at educating the common mass with basic healthcare knowledge so as our community can behave more learned in case of future crisis.
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Well I wouldnt say its over done coz worldwide it has taken many lives but the problem was no one was aware what is Swine Flu, its causes and precautions needed to be taken. But i agree that it was really a chaos in pune but i would not say it as chaos rather i feel it was an act to protect themselves form deadly flu. Yes educating people will help in many ways but there was no time for it as lot many people were frightened and moreover i feel even the officials were not informed what to do.....
 
Yes, i also feel that swineflu was overdone or hyped by news channels in india.

Let me explian it with a short story: once there was a frog and snake and they had a bet with each other regarding what is more scary the poison of snake or his name? Frog was with a view that the name of snake was more scary and snake was with a view that his poison was more scary. So they decided to find out the answer. What they did was when a person came in front of them, snake went and bitten the person from back and ran and frog came in front of the person. So the person thought that just a frog has bitten him and he survived. Next time the frog bitten one person and snake came in front of him. So the person felt that a dangerous poisonous snake has bitten him and when examined by doctor, doctors found that the man actually had snake poison in his body. It is not just a story. It is a real experiment done by scientist and it proves that fear is more danger then poison.

The same thing is happening in India. Because of this again and again coming news of swineflu in electronic media, it has created a fear in minds of people. And coz of this fear now people rush to the doctors if also they have little cough or cold too and you can see a lond queue at any doctor's clinic. If a person in public sneezes people will say that he might be suffering from swineflu. Media has also helped people by making them aware but too much of anything causes harm and too much of repitition of same news has created fear. And coz of that people die more then that of the disease and its also proved by scientist that fear is more dangerous then any disease itself.
 
I think the same govt which is blaming media can use it for promoting awareness among people against swine flue.
Media is always the same for all. The change can be done on your part , how to make the best use out of it.
 
Swine Flu has been given way too much media reportage. Every minute somewhere in India someone dies of tuberculosis. So why don't TV News Channels also report these large number of deaths (happening daily) caused due to tuberculosis, malaria, dengue and even normal flu as 'breaking news'?
 
Swine flu wasnt overdown because it has had drastic impact in worldover so certainly we cant be desscussion weither the flu precaution were over down or not
 
i think it was over hyped...but then too.. there is nothing in bad. Atleast it helped in increasing the awareness about it. So, in the it was all good
 
Perhaps yes - with a billion other diseases around, I think, this needed comparatively less print-space. But still I think it would help our countrymen - millions of those, who are although educated, but need some basic etiquette trainings - even while sneezing / coughing etc.
 
Yes....swine flu was over done & hyped in India...thanks to our media who has a specilisation in doing such things.....though it was for the benefit of people....
 
yes it is ! becoz of media hype ,it created a panic among the common people . Things could have been handled in a simplified way.

joshma
 
I think that media coverage regarding Swine Flue is 100% true and its also not controversial as media is performing its duty
Swine Flue is becoming more and more critical problem in India specially in south Indian states like Maharastra, Tamil Nadu etc. We are badly hit by Swine flue and even we can face the worst from swine flue .Thats why i think media is performing its task to keep people updated about swine flue. We cannot say that media is unnecessarily raising the issue
 
Well yes. It was over hyped. Yes there were cases and deaths and all but still the hysteria wasn't justified. I travel by mumbai trains and thus come in contact with atleast a thousand ppl...and i didn't get it.neither did any of my friends. Maybe its the immune system but then who knows for sure.
ANyways media needs titbits all the time :P
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vijaykg said:
As a Puneite I would say yes and this was fueled by media. There was absolute chaos, people were roaming around with masks on without knowing how the masks will help. They did not know how to use the masks and there were shortage of masks. Confusion and anger is how I would like to describe the situation. As a responsible Indian we all should look at educating the common mass with basic healthcare knowledge so as our community can behave more learned in case of future crisis.
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yes this is overdone

we have to take measures
rt
 
yes the swine flu was over hyped by media . Infact media seemed to be more instrumental in creating an atmosphere of chaos and commotion and rather instilled fears in the mind of the people. the moment one sneezes , the immediate reaction of crowd is stay away!!! he might be suffering from swine flu......so its true to quote in this case that little knowledge is very much a dangerous thing and media particularly the visual one left no stone unturned in fueling this issue rather than providing right information at right time to the people.
 
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