Just a few days ago, CNN just reported 3,900 deaths in the U.S. this year due to swine flu. Everybody panic, right? Except that flu claims about 35,000 lives every year (swine flu might in fact be much less lethal than initially suspected), and it claims lives of people who are elderly, vulnerable and already sick.

Sometimes I wish numbers hadn’t been invented. Why? Because in the wrong hands, they are harmful. And, the sad truth is, most hands are wrong hands.

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