It's Swine Flu! We're All Going To Die!

Not really.

One thing that I find interesting is that the media likes to over exaggerate and over hype happenings that concern the United States, perhaps to gain more viewers for their programs. 

One victim of hype in the past year is the ever-dangerous (implied sarcasm) disease that is Swine Flu. 

Or, as the scientific community calls it, H1N1. 

Put short, Swine Flu is a variant of the flu that crossed over to the US from Mexico.
A flu that was SO overhyped that people were CERTAIN death was imminent for those infected with the virus.

Except, they were wrong. 

There was no Black Plague-esque death scale, there was no need for the United States borders to be closed. Everything continued as normal. 

Why is this, you might ask?

Wasn't the Swine Flu the WORST epidemic ever to hit the US?

Simple: A flu by any other name is still the flu.

The only thing different between the regular Influenza and H1N1 is the name, and the DNA strands. 

Sure, an entirely different vaccine would be required to cure it, but it is no more detrimental to your body than the regular flu is. 

And this is just what the cartoonist is trying to point out to us with their cartoon.
People have over hyped this disease, when the scientific community has been trying to explain that it is not serious as we thought.
The media overshadowed our bright thinkers, apparently, with their "boys that cry 'epidemic!'". 

This is why I say you should never entirely believe the news media on anything, or follow the hype. 

ALWAYS seek the facts, consult experts if possible, do a little research. 

This thing we call the internet has a vast array of sources to check out, some more credible than Fox News or other stations. 

Whatever you do, though, don't give into the hype. 

Remember what happens when you're struggling to swim and you panic?

You drown. 

Airport Security

If you are one who likes to travel fair distances that require commute by airplane, there is without a doubt that you have run into one of these guys. 

Yes, the ever-lovable Transport Security Administration agents. 

One notable thing about them is that their methods to search commuters for questionable materials are... interesting, to say the least.

Interesting in that the methods seem to be enacted unfairly, such as body cavity searches. 

One might say that TSA agents take their work too far or seriously, and their serious nature in regards to this forces them to act in the same manner - being too aggressive or invasive with their searches. 

The cartoonist seems to feel that it is only a matter of time before TSA takes their work too far to the point at which we will have to strip down naked, due to some paranoia because of some underwear bomber or the like. 

While the stripping down to bare skin and bones idea is ludicrous in my opinion, the message of the cartoonist is clear: TSA is taking things way too far. 

After all, if a TSA agent searches someone in such an invasive manner that it could be thought of as sexual harassment, don't you think that's going a bit too far?

The Ecological Time Bomb

As far as how we humans are impacting our environment, I would say that we are living on borrowed time.

Let's face it - pollution, CO₂ emissions, overpopulation, and plenty of other environmental dangers will not ensure our environment's survival. 

The B.P. oil spill crisis is no exception. 

Undoubtedly the spill caused a lot of oceanic damage, killing myriads of fish and making the waters uninhabitable. 

While not an event so catastrophic that it destroys all of Earth's ecosystems, it is a fuse that brings us closer to the one 'big one' that will fulfill that job. 

Such is what the cartoonist is trying to paint.
BP is the fuse for a bomb - representing an environmental catastrophe or perhaps something more gradual - that will destroy the world as we know it.

Either the event that transpires will be a massive one that consumes all of the environment in its wake, or slowly but surely we are approaching the point at which the environment will be destroyed, and BP's spill only increased the speed at which we are approaching such a point.

Regardless of the cartoon's meaning, one thing is clear - we must do more to protect our environment and circumvent her destruction, or we will all die with her.