Is this a good thought??

Hello everyone!
Everyone is covered up these days… masks and gloves and whoa!! What a scene!
Yes! You guessed it…I am coming to Swine Flu.
But actually, I have got a different angle to it.. an insight into human psychology. Ever noticed that a new thing is always looked upon with fear/anxiety. And since, this new thing has nothing good to talk about…We have not fear but PANIC everywhere!
OK, First thing first, I am not against precautions being taken to prevent Swine Flu.
But my point is.. In India, People are willing to wear masks(all sorts! Just walk on the streets of PUne and you would know!), coz there have been around 20 deaths in India coz of the flu but noone wants to wear a condom (apparent from the statistics) although nearly 2 lakh people die of AIDS every year in this country!
Its strange, H1N1 is not lethal in all the cases, it could be if care is not taken. But there are other diseases which are lethal (once you get it, you are gone!), I will just take HIV as an example. Why is it that India is not dealing with this as ferociously as it seems to be addressing the Swine Flu. Yes, you can say this infection has far more chances of spreading than AIDS..agreed. But also, so is the case of common cold and other water borne, air borne diseases. People die of cholera, dysentery all the time and the number is alarmingly higher than Swine Flu case. My question is: Why not the same approach for these diseases as well, is it like a known devil is acceptable than an unknown one?? Are you trying to say, If people are dying of known diseases (Or should I say conditions??? The garbage, the dirty water.. You name it and India’s most cosmopolitan city will show you glaring examples (Rem: Slumdog Millionaire) ) , it is OK. But if a certain new thing rocks the world..My God..PANIC PANIC PANIC!
Why not launch massive campaigns for AIDS (I am not talking about NGOs, from the Government side) which I guess is incomplete without proper sex education being provided in Schools. That, is another issue! Some states (Karnataka, Tamilnadu) have tremendous opposition for this, so what does the government do?? Scrap the thought!! No need of sex education, let people die of STDs and let them get pregnant and get abortion done from not-registered clinics and put them at high risk of a bigger future problem! My question is: When the problem is so glaring and needs to be dealt with aggressively.. why the vote bank politics always win? Why not deal with it the same way and create enough awareness that people wear condoms as willingly as they are putting on the masks these days!
Why not launch (AND complete) the river cleaning drives (whatever happened to Yamuna guys?? We did see pics of our beloved chief minister complete with a broom and all at the banks of the river but as for Yamuna, I guess it will dry up before it is cleaned up! ) so that safe drinking water ensures lesser deaths than usual by cholera/dysentery etc.
Well coming back to my point. Human Psychology. What I think is: If you put enough fear in the minds of people, It works!
The thing is, In india some diseases are just ignored (like the common ones: cholera etc etc) and diseases like AIDS are glamorized more than taken seriously.. Its just that the buzz around the disease somehow demeans its effect on the people. I do not know why is that, may be because it has the ‘s**’ word with it (I could have spelt it, but it is just this thing of keeping it hidden which is probably the answer to my question.. not sure) because, I can bet you 100 000 bucks here that if you ask a common man, he would just tell you it is sexually contracted disease.. no idea about the other means of transmission!
Why not create a dreaded situation for these diseases too?? Our News channels can provide unparalleled help! Their stories are so sensationalized, that can be used…well.. for a good purpose this time. Pull out the statistics for water borne diseases, and tell ppl next time you don’t boil the water that goes down your throat, you might be at the risk of losing your life coz of so and so disease…. (There are more than 200 thousands of deaths happening coz of these diseases) Give the ppl the statistics, make it the front page news on the Newspaper and run 100 stories on it everyday on our beloved 24x7 news channel, drill it into peoples mind that they are going to die if they do not do enough about this and whoa…Democracy will fan its wings and the government will have to take up these issues and address them! All I am saying is, we can use the resources we have (though in a crooked way) to abolish a lot of flak that is around. We can take this Swine Flu hysteria as an example to show us a way to a better, healthier India!