Look, I'm not saying that there was absolutely no threat. Obviously there was a threat of mutation and a high death rate, but the government and media painted it as a certainty. Even after overwhelming evidence came out to support that really only the people who are succeptible to normal flu complications were the ones experiencing issues with Swine Flu, they pressed on insisting we get vaccinated when there really wasn't much need. Now if it mutated to be much more violent, then a vaccine would be needed, but it would likely need to be a much different vaccine and the current one would not do much good anyway.
Also, I just don't see how 30,000 cases WORLDWIDE can be classed as an "epidemic over a wide geographic area and affecting a large proportion of the population". Sure it is over a wide area, but 30,000 at the time of that Pandemic labeling is less than .0004% of the population, not a large portion at all. There were only 2000 deaths in the USA since this "pandemic" due to combinations of all the flu's. That's less than .0008% of the US population. Of those, Swine Flu was only accountable for 279 deaths, so that's less than .00008% of the population.
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