"If you're looking for a pity party, you came to the wrong place. I left sensitivity back in the sand pile!"
"Poor me, poor me, pour me another"
""Can't" lives on "won't" street."
"Well life's a bitch, so I became one, honey!"
while i have no doubt that it is over-hyped by the media, i don't believe it's a "hoax".
my mother works in a hospital and has seen a few patients die from it, two of them were in their 20's and otherwise healthy.