Before you drop your life savings into one of those vacuum-sealed bubbles to escape the new Black Plague…let me drop a little information on you. Swine Flu ain’t new. It came knocking on the door back in 1976, and look! We survived! The government, always ready with a healthy dose of fear inducing saber-rattling, put out this PSA telling everyone to get their shot.
Enjoy some Swine Flu propaganda from 1976:
You can read all about it and the controversial steps then-President Gerald Ford took to stamp it out here.
And if you want to track swine flu cases in more or less real time, someone went and set up a custom Google Map just for you
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