WRAPUP 1-Mexico orders economic shutdown; pandemic imminent

Reuters ^ | Thu Apr 30, 2009 | Catherine Bremer and Laura MacInnis

[penelopesire]

Sadly, you are correct. We have watched this for decades. This just seems worse since it is a potential pandemic. I don’t trust any official to tell us the truth anymore. We are re-stocking our ‘self reliant’ supplies in our home. It’s just a matter of time before something horrible happens with Mr. Obama stearing our country to the brink of destruction on every front.

[April Lexington]

"thing is a hoax to allow Obama to grab the healthcare system and nationalize it." What part of this is so hard for all to see!

Because the soccer moms of America are hysterical that jr. may get the Hershey squirts! NEVER get between a mom and reality!

[nomad]

But I`d bet real money that the crappy socialized health care and lousy sanitation systems they have down there carry much of the blame for the virulence of their outbreak.For starters,look at their drinking water standards,how can your body fight off one disease when its trying to fight off so many others?

[4woodenboats]

I used to go to Mexico fairly often. I sailed to Puerto Vallarta a few times in the 60's and did the Newport to Ensenada race until 1998, and not once did I drink water that didn't come from a bottle or was boiled 1st. You never knew where ice came from, but chances were and still are good that it was downstream from where the townfolk washed their clothes, bathed and relieved themselves.

If you think about it, all the tourist spots are at the beach, and everyone who lives there lives upstream.

[Ditter]

The 23 month old was a Mexican child who came to Texas with his family and then got sick. He had other health problems but I don’t know what they were, the child died in a Houston hospital several days ago. I don’t know anyone in Houston who is sick but several schools have closed until May 11 because of the virus.