There’s way too much hype over the swine flu (CDC info).  The deaths are in the 100s, and mostly in Mexico.  “Every year in the United States, on average 5% to 20% of the population gets the flu; more than 200,000 people are hospitalized from flu complications, and; about 36,000 people die from flu-related causes.” –CDC

So, @explicitmemory (who I don’t think I know) tweeted a link to GuideSpot.com’s article about surgical masks.  The @toadstar retweeted it, then I read it, and this is the funniest part:

(from the filenames over at guidespot, I can only assume they are strictly protecting their unattributed photos – i.e. sas.localguides.com/bundles/guides_ep/assets/widget_dEgcm5ag9jLAO3iwIW7S2F.jpg)

on the other hand, this one is hot linked, we’ll see if it stays updated: