PAPER: Americans told to wear masks...
Doctors in America are advising worried patients to buy painters’ masks as a precaution against the global outbreak of swine flu that appears to have spread from Mexico to the United States, New Zealand and possibly Europe.
As of today, the US was still allowing people to cross the border from Mexico – where it is thought the swine flu emerged last week
– although customs officials at the San Ysidro and Otay Mesa border crossings were given protective masks. It is thought that eight people in US border towns have gone down with swine flu, and tonight Mayor Michael Bloomberg said that a further eight cases have been confirmed among students in New York.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/health/article6173927.ece
This is getting a little absurd.
Why aren't we told to do this EVERY flu season? (along with no touching, kissing’ hugging, etc..)
For God's sake an AVERAGE of 36,000 die from the *flu* every year.
Purely political, INDEED!