Flu.

All this fluttery talk of the swine flu left me with an unwavering desire to watch the 1994 mini-series, The Stand, in which 99.4% of the world population succumbs to a government-engineered "superflu."

The lengths to which the world leaders go in this story to keep the flu rumors under control have reassured me that we have little to worry about in the face of this most recent pandemic. If we were really in a panic situation, there would be a hell of a lot less media talk on the subject.

Yay! for reassuring summer horror tv serieses. ;>