Well, apparently it's not politically correct to call it "swine flu" any more, and "North American flu" spreads the blame too widely, so I'm sticking with what the Russians are calling it, the "Mexican flu."
It's nice to be "sensitive" to differing cultures, but we still haven't gotten rid of the "German measles" or the "French disease," so our neighbors to the south can't complain.
Anyway.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5530324#5530801The Zbigniew primitive:
nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Sat Apr-25-09 12:30 AM
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Here is a factoid as to why some of us are worried about flu and mexico
what usually happens during the Influenza season and the month of April?
Usually infections crash
I was down there last week and I did notice the articles in the paper that this year the usual pattern had not repeated. In fact, they were getting a spike and were recommending people get a booster to the vaccine... and were officially spooked
It was one of those.... hmmm weird stories
So if you have that blase attitude, congrats
I can't
That said I do hope the measures taken by the Mexican Government will stop this... never mind that with the numbers of passengers leaving from the Mexico City airport to all points, we may have a series of patient zero all over
You may want to review what patient zero means
That is all.
The bonfire's pretty large, but I'll restrict myself to quoting just the Primitives of Prominence; there's some hostile give-and-take between the Zbigniew primitive and the "1" primitive, the Zbigniew primitive accusing the "1" primitive of being racist towards Mexico and Mexicans, but that's a pretty stale routine on Skins's island.
Doug's ex-wife:
EFerrari (1000+ posts) Sat Apr-25-09 02:18 AM
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16. I'm sort of worried about my mom in San Jose.
She's a tough cookie but in her mid 70s and how she's managed to live that long taking no kind of care of herself is a mystery to me. She moves around in the community and there is a lot of coming and going there, if you know what I mean.
The nightmare primitive:
seemslikeadream (1000+ posts) Sat Apr-25-09 03:17 AM
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35. Thanks nad
Did you see the New York school outbreak
seemslikeadream (1000+ posts) Sat Apr-25-09 03:30 AM
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41. yes I just been accused of crying wolf again actually I started posting about it because of my thoughts of the victims not hysteria
The subway cat:
undergroundpanther (1000+ posts) Sat Apr-25-09 05:27 AM
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44. It bothers me too Nadin.
I have had and seen too many coincidences concerning this topic.
The way this story broke and the quick urgency,if Mexico shuts the airport and transit.It's bad shit.
There's a lot of hysteria at the bonfire, but it's nearly all hysteria by obscure primitives.
