A simulated explosion, that is. Don't panic.
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The LA Times has a story about the author's own
struggle with
href="http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000923.htm">panic
disorder and agoraphobia.
If your country had thousands of cases of a potentially fatal disease, spread by mosquitoes, would you panic? Not if you lived in the US, apparently. Last year there were over 4200 cases of West Nile virus infections with 177 deaths. I don't remember panic gripping the nation.
Sometimes I see news about upcoming drugs, and hope that it
works out. Sometimes, I don't see the point.
Rarely, I actively hope that it does not
work out.
Staccato® alprazolam is one that I hope does not work out.
The easiest way for public officials to scare the crap out of people is to tell them "not to panic." A variant on this is, "It's not time to panic," implying that there will be such a time or that there is ever such a time.