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I noticed that some posters on here seemed a little overly worried about this flu virus (imo), so I flipped on the tube to see if it's being widely reported.
I just finished watching CNN for 15 minutes and then Fox for 15 minutes (MSNBC has a documentary on, so I didn't watch), and noticed that in the time I had CNN on, the anchor covered Obama's first 100 days (with commentators) for about 10 minutes and then discussed the swine flu outbreak for a little over four minutes, during which he and his guests agreed that the media may be overreracting to the flu situation, and agreed to switch topics back to Obama.
However, when I turned on Fox, Geraldo was in the middle of reporting on the flu (live from the school in Queens where 8 kids have been diagnosed, to boot), and is still going on and on and on about it. In the 15 minutes I watched, he and some other reporter repeatedly used unnecessary, alarmist terms such as "deadly outbreak," "widespread," "deadly situation," "rapidly spreading," etc etc. Unbelievable. It's no wonder people are freaking out about this. I guess Fox thinks their ratings are more important than not causing an unnecessary panic among its viewers.
"The United States declared a "public health emergency" yesterday as countries from New Zealand to Scotland investigated suspected cases of illness that they feared might be a strain of swine flu that has been identified in Mexico, the United States and Canada".
Meanwhile let's look at how the swine flu is affecting the economy.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...qWM&refer=home
Mexico’s peso sank to the lowest in almost three weeks on concern an outbreak of the deadly swine flu will deepen the country’s economic slump. The peso tumbled as much as 3.5 percent against the dollar, the most of all currencies tracked by Bloomberg.
The flu outbreak, which has claimed as many as 81 lives, may slow dollar flows from tourism and curb consumer spending at restaurants, theaters and other venues where crowds gather, said Gerardo Margolis, a vice president for emerging markets at TD Securities Inc. in Toronto.
The spread of the virus “has an immediate economic impact and investors will be cautious,” Margolis said. “There will be a drop in consumption and tourism and that affects the currency.”
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p..._58&refer=home
The yen rose for a fourth day against the dollar after Lawrence Summers said the U.S. economy will keep shrinking and as the spread of swine flu boosted demand for Japan’s currency as a refuge from the recession. Higher-yielding currencies declined after President Barack Obama’s administration declared a public health emergency and released stockpiles of medicine because of a growing number of swine flu cases in the U.S. and Mexico.
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What do you think, could the new flu strain be genetically-manufactured (i.e., Bio Terrorism)?
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"Gene segments from dreaded H5N1 bird flu in the A-H1N1 swine flu strain could mean that the new swine flu strain was engineered to jump species". I mean what is the chance that H5N1 bird flu in the A-H1N1 swine flu could combine on there own (serious question any statistic would be appreciated)?
"The first case was seen in Mexico on April 13. The outbreak coincided with the President Barack Obama's trip to Mexico City on April 16. Obama was received at Mexico's anthropology museum in Mexico City by Felipe Solis, a distinguished archeologist who died the following day from symptoms similar to flu, Reforma newspaper reported. The newspaper didn't confirm if Solis had swine flu or not."
Paul
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Well, do wash your hands frequently, and try to find a bus seat that's not around a lot of people. I know that can be hard at rush hour.
Thanks for responding. The hand washing is something I do always, especially after using public transportation. Finding a bus seat in a non-crowded section is more of a challenge and often unrealistic on a city bus. I wonder if I need to purchase a mask.
The stagnation and depression of wages and benefits and lowering of Middle Class standards due to illegals from Mexico and C. America is a FAR greater benefit to the multinational corportions and their cronies in Congress and in their minds outweighs any damage and heartache & pain caused by an epidemic!!!
Notice the number of pink markers, as well as the number of markers in the US with black dots (hint: all of them). Pink markers mean that it's a suspected case of swine flu, as opposed to a confirmed case. Black dots mean it has not been fatal.
All US cases have black dots, and almost all of them are pink. Fact is that out of 304 million people in this country, only 20 cases have been confirmed and all of those people are recovering.
The people in Mexico who died were unable to receive adequate healthcare. As of right now, it appears that if you seek treatment, you'll recover.
This is not anything to panic over (yet). Hopefully, the situation will not become worse. We'll know more in the coming days.
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What do you think, could the new flu strain be genetically-manufactured (i.e., Bio Terrorism)?
