This article supports the theory of Spiral of Silence. The vast majority of people didn’t have swine flu it turns out. At Penn State, Health Services ended up ordering 4,0000 more swine flu vaccines because of the panic created among the general public. There were only 10 reported cases of students with swine flu at Penn State. I think people panic and got the shot even if they didn’t agree because everyone was getting them and pressuring them. Because people thought they were the minority, they didn’t speak out and got the shot or if they showed flu like symptoms, they automatically assumed its was the swine flu. It was all over the media. It caused a lot of tension and closing of schools. My high school ended up closing because of one case creating a mass panic. Half the school called out sick complaining of flu-like symptoms. There was a stress in the health care system. This shows how the media can create mass panic. People need to think and analysis certain issues when the media sends out mass panic reports.
Maria Lobron
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