There's an app for that?

We must be feeling really catty today because we weren't going to comment on this story but when you think of what our mission is - our mission is to correct what's incorrect in the news. Headlines: "New Application Aims to Detect Flu Outbreaks Faster" "iPhone users have a new means of monitoring the spread of swine flu and other disease outbreaks." Nothing really incorrect with this story. There is an app for that. We just have to ask - Why?

It's been on ABC, USA Today, US News & World Report you've seen it. We thought that that was our job. Except knowing where the outbreak is is sort of like knowing who has the virus. It's not the flu that needs to worry you, we think. For us its what treatments are available to keep you from dying from the flu.

This app and the others like it turns you into a video game character. What are you supposed to do run from uninfected area to uninfected area? We don't want to turn you into a frogger character. Information that informs should inform. We aren't hating! Really we aren't hating!

We think of the flu as a bad bad cold that kills whether its swine or pneumonia. Dead is dead. We're not jealous but don't allow yourself to be misdirected. Everyone who gets the flu will NOT die. It's not a death sentence. There is an available treatment to make us both resistant and able to recover from the infection. Swine Flu - there's a treatment for that!