Yes, I read these scare tactic/click bait articles, and then roll my eyes and wonder why I fell for yet another another one. Waste of time... unless they're used for such delightful satire as I found here. What exactly did our infectious disease/government PR folks do with their time - before they were given the objective to blow up every possible obscure infectious disease into a potential world pandemic?

And I think back to my outrage to find that there was a obligatory "D" in the Tetanus vaccine - and that we were being "protected" from a total of ONE case/year of diphtheria in the U.S. These scare tactics might work on some people - probably the people still driving around wearing masks inside their cars. However, at some point, more people will recognize that our government is just playing games with us. Short-lived publicity over scary-appearing diseases like "red eye" flu - which affect few, and cause no deaths, will eventually develop into disinterest and reader fatigue.