We've had these scares up and down for several years now, but it's true that statistically speaking we're overdue for a serious flu strain. This does seem to be person to person transmission, and if that's the case then I guess the balloon has just gone up. Time will tell.
I'm not worrying, I'm over 21 (smirk)I've had my go. These scares come and go but this one seems to be getting a low key treatment by the media which is cause for concern in itself and the demographic it's hitting and the rapid spread seems - dunno, especially worrying. New Scientist have an interesting article too.
Shrug. We're well overdue. This planet is fantastically over-populated. ::shrug:: What will be I guess.
Well, not really - people will be getting on planes, crossing into other South American countries - if this truly has the makings of a pandemic, I suspect the damage has already been done.
::shrug:: I'm not worrying, I've had a good life. *g*
I'm not going to worry about it till I know I have to - there've been so many scares - though this does seem like a peculiarly unpleasant and worrying virus.
I don't think it would make the slightest difference in this case. Mexicans will have been travelling into other South and Central American countries, quite legitimately flying here, there and everywhere. Then there are export/import flights, trucks ships... If it really has the potential to be one, then I suspect the damage has already been done.
I'm not worrying till I know I have to and anyway, I've had a good life. *G*
I heard on the news this morning that some people in Texas have been infected but they didn't say where in Texas. My elderly father and wife #3 live in San Antonio and my brother-in-law is currently in Galveston still working on the hurricane restoration. He's a healthy person but the old folks give me cause to be concerned.
The news pieces I've read say no one has died yet in the US though there have been several cases. I'm not seriously worried or anything! I'm interested in a more academic way, at the way the media are dealing with it - but it does sound like the scientists and PTB are seriously worried - certainly one to watch.
When I was a kid (way back in the 1960s) the Hong Kong flu was making the rounds. We were living in LA at the time and I was a pretty sick kid for a while. I think, despite the fact that we travel more now, that the CDC, etc, monitor these things a lot more closely than was once true.
Oh, man, the Hong Kong Flu. I remember it vividly. I was eight years old and it was right before Christmas, when it hit my family. My dad was working out of town that fall and only came home on the weekends. Mom, me, and probably some of my siblings (I was the oldest and when I was eight, I had five brothers and sisters) were baking Christmas cookies. And between the time we mixed up the dough and were finished baking, (I was the last kid left standing, so I ended up baking the rest of the cookies myself), every one of us were sick as dogs. Mom, too. Dad came home and the house was like an infirmary, we were so sick. Mom kept dragging herself from kid to kid and set buckets by our beds.
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Yeah, well -
have an interesting article too.
Shrug. We're well overdue. This planet is fantastically over-populated. ::shrug:: What will be I guess.
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::shrug:: I'm not worrying, I've had a good life. *g*
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Wonder how long before it heads my way.
Laurie
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I'm not worrying till I know I have to and anyway, I've had a good life. *G*
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I hope you and your family stay healthy.
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When I was a kid (way back in the 1960s) the Hong Kong flu was making the rounds. We were living in LA at the time and I was a pretty sick kid for a while. I think, despite the fact that we travel more now, that the CDC, etc, monitor these things a lot more closely than was once true.
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Yeah. Fun times.
Laurie