I agree entirely with your first sentence.
You and I are not at the same point.
I agree with your second sentence too.
It is upsetting when some people ignore facts that do not fit in with their own opinion...and also when they resort to ridicule/name calling in their frustration.
If you alter your analogy to someone else lighting the fire or a fire that reignites after being dormant for some time then we might have mutual ground.
Lets look at pandemics for a moment.
Every year thousands of people die of 'seasonal' flu right?
Bird flu appeared...the word 'pandemic' was used...people expected to catch it and die on a world wide scale. True?
Swine flu appeared.....the word 'pandemic' was used again, used both times by those apparantly with knowledge of such things. People expected to become ill withing weeks or even days and die from it.
Both instances caused panic but there was not a world wide event of people dying left right and centre was there?
The numbers that die each year from various forms of flu were dismissed as irrelevant.
Now I know you will probably conjure up figures to show huge death rates from Bird/Swine flu and defend the use of vaccines designed to combat both but the FACT remains that wrong or shall we say misleading information was given.
It happens.
