Sure. Look, between 30,000 and 50,000 people die of flu in the US every year.....mostly the old folks who are already sick. The only issue with this variant of swine flu is that we don't yet have a vaccine for it. Because of that, people are scared of catching it.
When the dust settles, this swine flu will have killed far fewer people than the panicking masses are predicting, and there will be thousands of garage sales of face masks that were never needed.