Posted on 04/29/2009 10:07:29 PM PDT by penelopesire
MEXICO CITY/GENEVA, April 30 (Reuters) - Mexico's president told citizens to stay home from Friday for a five-day partial shutdown of the economy, after the World Health Organisation raised its alert level and said a swine flu pandemic was imminent.
In his first televised address since the crisis erupted last week, President Felipe Calderon told Mexicans to stay home with their families. The country will suspend non-essential work and services, including some government ministries, from May 1-5.
"There is no safer place than your own home to avoid being infected with the flu virus," Calderon said.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
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Thanks for your opinion. We are in Texas where they are closing ALL schools. Very scary.
THE BORDERS NEED TO BE CLOSED. I AM BEGINNING TO GET OUTRAGED! (sorry for shouting)
During the night, we crossed the threshold for the definition of a WHO, Phase 6 global pandemic.
Have we gone to 6 yet? Am I missing something?
Prayers for your daughter’s friend. Thanks for sharing your info. There are more cases going on than we know.
I don’t know. I wondered about the same thing. From what I can tell..Phase 5 means that Phase 6 is ‘imminent’..so my guess is that this is all process and we will be at 6 by tomorrow.
This is what jumped off the page at me just now in reading it:
(snip) "This has not been in the media, but a 23 month old in Houston is fighting for his life, and a pregnant woman just south of San Antonio is fighting for her life." (snip)
You KNOW that if Canadian Swine Flu broke out in some all white community in Quebec, and slowly made its way to the USA, they would have LONG AGO shut down the northern border of the USA to keep it out.
This is all, frikkin political correctness, and it is going to mean the serious sickness and maybe even death of Americans on our soil. But why should they care. Tens of thousands of Americans have already died on American soil at the hands of illegal aliens from Mexico and elsewhere, by gun or drunk-driven car, so what is the impetus for them to do anything regarding a disease, coming up from the south, which can also kill Americans. Examine their behavior to-date to protect Americans, and know what they will do or not do in the future. The past is prologue. Our Government is NOT serving the people. We have told them until we were blue in the face to shut down the border, and they did not listen, and now with a pandemic THEY STILL WILL NOT LISTEN??
That sounds logical. I probably shouldn’t have started freaking out and had 3 cups of coffee the last hour.(grin)
I don’t know...but I am starting to panic just a little and feel like I need to prepare our home to protect my family. I was ‘shrugging’ it off for the most part until now. Tempted to go to the store(24 hr) while people are not there to stock up on supplies and while I am on a coffee binge...lol.
It’s amazing isn’t it? I am starting to think it is an impeachable offense for Obama at this point.
I don’t mean that as a partisan jab either. This is serious and he is failing in his duty to protect American citizens.
The Mexicans will F L O O D over the border now.
oBAMBI must be considered a TRAITOR, working for an Enemy Foriegn Power. He will sing a different tune when one of his daughters gets the bug.....or maybe he won’t “want to be burdened”.
Relax. Dallas County HHS sent notes home from the schools on the 26th. The note had Priority: Urgent and listed 7 items under current information.
Here is a quote from their note:
This situation has the potential to rapidly escalate and particularly has implications for school-age students and schools. At this time, we are recommending the following actions:
1. Do not let your child attend school if he/she has symptoms of the flu, particularly fever. Your school should make necessary arrangements to help your child make-up for any missed school days.
2. If anyone in your home is sick with symptoms of the flu, be sure that they receive medical care as you would during a typical flu illness.
3. Persons diagnosed with swine influenza infections are instructed to stay at home for 7 days after the start of the illness and fever is gone.
4. Wash your hands after being around a sick child, and keep sick children separated from healthy members of the family. Encourage everyone to cover their mouths and noses when coughing or sneezing.
The schools are being closed because people continued to send sick children to school, and proper hygiene was not followed. Hopefully this will not be as lethal here. But people must take personal responsibility for their own health and the health of their children. Shutting down the border is like closing the barn door and burning the barn down 4 days after the horse is gone.
Good planning, cleanliness and common sense will get folks through this. Emotional over reaction, anger, and a lack of focus are your enemy. Ask your neighbor what you can do to help.
“The Mexicans will F L O O D over the border now.”
They already have been for the past week. That is the dirty little secret no-one is talking about. We have buses in Texas that go back and forth between Mexico and here 4 or more times a day and they have been full. I don’t know if the numbers are different from say a month ago...but would not trust any official at this point to tell the truth about whether they are or not.
Thank you for the prayers. The girl who is sick is such a sweetheart — I only hope it’s “just a cold”.
I keep having this nagging feeling that the flu my family suffered from the 2nd week of April might have been more than the “regular flu”. Especially after reading that list of symptoms. The one child we did bring in to the doctor developed a sore throat, hoarseness, etc... They did a strep test, but didn’t do any kind of flu swab. [I did note that since we told the doctor our whole family was sick he apologized, but didn’t shake our hands to introduce himself! LOL We were told there was a “late-season flu” going around.] One strange thing — I didn’t get the “flu” like my family did — instead about 5 days later I got hit with a VERY nasty Bronchial infection. We’ll probably never know for sure if it was “regular” flu or not, but this really hits home. Nursing 4 kids and a husband who are in bed for 4-5 days is NOT fun, and it’s downright scary... [PRAISE GOD — everyone except for me is back to 100%, and I only have lingering “irritation” from my infection].
We’ll be talking to our friends outside Chicago who visited us a few days before my family got sick to see if they came down with anything after our visit...
I just told my daughters tonight that for the next week or so (now that there are confirmed cases here in WI) I didn’t want them going to the mall, or the library etc... and they are all ticked at me now (TOO BAD, SO SAD!!! LOL). I say better safe than sorry and it’s not like they NEED to go to the mall! I told them they were lucky — their other friend in Texas (not the one who is sick) isn’t even allowed to go OUTSIDE at this point, so they should count their blessings!
All in all, I’d rather overreact and feel stupid later, than not take what precautions I can to protect myself and family and feel those “If Only’s” later...
BTW (probably should put this in a separate post, but):
My eldest daughter and hubby went to the DMV here today (Central Wisconsin) — there is a sign when you walk in next toa stack of blue surgical masks stating that ANYONE coughing needs to wear a mask. Don’t know if that’s ‘new’ or not...
“Shutting down the border is like closing the barn door and burning the barn down 4 days after the horse is gone.”
That is a ridiculous conclusion and defies logic. One ‘horse out of the barn’ is different than 100 horses out of the barn. We have thousands of horses out of the barn in Texas.
Sounds like you have drunk the Obama koolaid. Good luck with that.
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Totally agree with you there AIT...
Correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t it a 23-month-old child that was confirmed as the first death in Texas earlier today?
So glad to hear you all are recovering. Perhaps if it was the swine flu you will all have a bit of immunity.??
My son is suppose to fly to San Diego next week and is in the prime of his life(twenties). I am very afraid for him flying and going there. He is grown and will probably not listen to me if I ask him not to go. Being a mother is hard sometimes, isn’t it?
Yes. I have no idea how legit this letter is, but there are other anecdotal evidences appearing online that lend it credibility.
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