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Woooosh
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Bajahowodd
Next, we'll hear that Osama Bin Laden is behind this. Seems, according to news reports, that Mexico City is in a panic. But on a worldwide basis, is
appears that this is a very mild flu. Of course, if you actually get , you won't agree. |
I've been wondering outloud why the typical and predictable conspiracy theory hasn't erupted yet. Why haven't they blamed the USA and Obama for
bringing it to Mexico City yet? After all, the Curator of the Museum in Mexico City that greeted and showed Obama around the place died from Swine
Flu the very next day.
\"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing\"
1961- JFK to Canadian parliament (Edmund Burke)
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JESSE
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Woooosh
| Quote: | Originally posted by Bajahowodd
Next, we'll hear that Osama Bin Laden is behind this. Seems, according to news reports, that Mexico City is in a panic. But on a worldwide basis, is
appears that this is a very mild flu. Of course, if you actually get , you won't agree. |
I've been wondering outloud why the typical and predictable conspiracy theory hasn't erupted yet. Why haven't they blamed the USA and Obama for
bringing it to Mexico City yet? After all, the Curator of the Museum in Mexico City that greeted and showed Obama around the place died from Swine
Flu the very next day. |
Oh trust me, theres already plenty of talk, except most people think this comes from outside america in order to hit the US and Mexico.
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chuckbolton
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swine flu
what do you hear down there-- the media ( gag!!) here is throwing red flags here in the US. the schools havent closed but are all publishing
bulletins--the flu has shown up in some very odd places-- 2 individuals in western ks? some on the east coast? do u see or hear much regarding this
in baja?
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DanO
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The WHO has raised the pandemic alert phase level to 4.
WHO PANDEMIC ALERT PHASES
Phase 1: No viruses circulating among animals causing infections in humans
Phase 2: Animal influenza virus causes infection in humans, and is considered potential pandemic threat
Phase 3: Influenza causes sporadic cases in people, but no significant human-to-human transmission
Phase 4: Verified human-to-human transmission able to cause community-level outbreaks. Significant increase in risk of a pandemic
Phase 5: Human-to-human transmission in at least two countries. Strong signal pandemic imminent
Phase 6: Virus spreads to another country in a different region. Global pandemic under way
\"Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.\" -- Frank Zappa
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The Sky is FALLING
And we're all going to DIE.
The Government is intentionally spreading the Virus. The fact that this is a Combinant Virus consisting of three separate strains is proof that the
Administration artificially created it in a secret laboratory for distribution via their Black Stealth Helicopters.
Be Afraid.
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I've had the wine flu a few times.
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Yea, Every time I eat a rack of BBQ'd ribs my stomach gets a little queezy. This
whole deal is getting weirder and weirder. I'm smelling a world class scam.
Or? Maybe the health gurus are panicky. After all, that's their claim to
fame.
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IMHO, the real problem will not be the virus and the illness, but the effect of the fear being generated by it. People staying home don't spend
money, at a time when the global economy needs just that -- more people spending money.
\"Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.\" -- Frank Zappa
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There are a few places in the Middle East that could use a good dose of this stuff.
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The media / govt. reaction to this so called flu epidemic is looking like an episode of dumb and dumber.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
There are a few places in the Middle East that could use a good dose of this stuff. |
gods will
\"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing\"
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I have heard and read that today too- but plenty of school children in uniform walking around TJ and Rosarito Beach.
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It's that it was announced during the morning school hours.
A well informed Baja California traveler is a smart Baja California traveler!
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Mexico's Pre-School thru University
closed through May 6, country-wide.
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Woooosh
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I thought only I was being casual about it...
Mexicans take swine flu lightly on U.S. border 27 Apr 2009 20:57:09 GMT
Source: Reuters
TIJUANA, Mexico, April 27 (Reuters) - Many Mexicans crossing into the United States on Monday at one of the busiest crossings on the border shunned
advice to wear surgical face mask to curb the spread of a deadly new flu.
Most Mexican immigration officials at the Tijuana-San Diego crossing were using masks and surgical gloves, but Mexicans crossing by car and foot
seemed unconcerned by the influenza scare and only a handful wore masks.
"I don't think anything will happen to me, it's old people and children we need to look after," said Gloria, a 35-year-old woman waiting to cross by
car into California who declined to give her last name.
Many of the up to 149 people who have died of the new virus in Mexico have actually been aged between 25 and 45, a worrying sign as pandemics tend to
target healthy young adults.
The World Health Organization raised its pandemic alert level to phase 4 over the flu virus as infections of the new strain spread to the United
States, Canada and Europe.
U.S. Border and Customs Protection agents checking vehicles were equipped with masks and were checking travelers for symptoms. "We are isolating
travelers with symptoms, offering them masks and alerting health authorities," said a customs spokesman at the San Ysidro crossing into California.
There are currently no travel restrictions between the United States and Mexico, the U.S. consulate in the northern city of Monterrey said on Monday,
although Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged caution in traveling to Mexico.
Many residents of Mexico's densely populated capital, Mexico City, spent the weekend hunkered at home or went out wearing face masks distributed by
soldiers.
In the northern business city of Monterrey, hundreds of people lined up at pharmacies to buy packs of face masks after initially playing down the
threat of contagion from other parts of Mexico. (Reporting by Lizbeth Diaz in Tijuana, Alejandro Bringas in Ciudad Juarez and Robin Emmott in
Monterrey; Editing by Cynthia Osterman)
\"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing\"
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Choice
One Health Professional summed it up:
"Whatever you say beforehand is going to be called inciting panic and described afterwards will be described as Inadequate".
The lesson of 9/11 seems to be CYA. Some poor Schmuck in a C150 cuts through the edge of the Prohibited Area over DC and everybody thinks it's a
Terrorist attack.
Same philosophy here. Every Politico is afraid to be caught not responding.
Still, it COULD be a government conspiracy. Watch for the Helicopters.
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Correct. No government entity or official wants to be accused of lacking concern. The Chinese got a great deal of grief in the SARS epidemic because
they waited three months to notify the WHO.
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Lest I be accused of posting too much  I spotted an interesting statistic
from the Healthcare Risk Managers. Surprisingly, on average, in the United States, 36,000 people die annually from some form of influenza.
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Just heard on baja sur radio station, there is not one reported case in the whole state. Seems folks in Vizcaino are a bit worried...LOTS of those
little blue masks everywhere...only a handful of people on the bus from ensenada to Vizcaino overnight.
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Has there been any cases reported in Ensenada? I was there last weekend and now feel sick.
I have been suffering from a bad sinus infection so it could still be from that.
I am going to the doc on Wens but really to talk about the sinus infection. I guess it's really a hard thing to get rid of.
But was curious about any reported cases around Ensenada.
"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for." J. A. Shedd.
A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it. – Albert Einstein
"Life's a Beach... and then you Fly!" Fishbuck
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Just heard on MSNBC that masks don't stop the spread of viruses.
Don't know about the swine flu in Baja but we sure encountered some severe cases of flu while we were there this year. John just went to the doctor
here and she rushed him out of the office when she heard he had had the flu in Mexico... Amazing amount of worry about this disease.
Glad you are safely home, Shari.
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