@gwizz this is the way people start panicking and do silly things like stopping eating pig meat when it's perfectly safe. Oh, and BTW it's useless to spam posts like this to get to 50...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30398682/ Just wondering, how many people get the regular, ordinary flu every year? 25,000 flu cases in a country of 110 million people is not very many. I mean, there were 37,324 fatal car accidents in the United States last year, but we don't have an "epidemic" of car crashes.
This is exactly the thing. There's over twenty million people living in Mexico City. The amount of infected people is proportionally VERY low for it to be so hyped up and scandalised by the media. Also, Mexico City is governed by a political party that is opposite to the federal government AND the national media that it controls, so generating panic right before a national election is very convenient. I live in the second largest city (about four million people) and we have no cases yet. Still, we went into full alert, but the news focuses on the "difficulties" of living in Mexico City and how we have to be aware and careful, cease all human contact and not be part of any public events or aglomerations (and so close to May Day, too!). I don't doubt the fact that there may be an epidemic, but it's not worth all this scandal. More people probably die of AIDS in Mexico every day than the amount of people that this flu has killed in average. The average Mexican citizen is so tired of the media and the government lying to us that they don't believe most of the information spewed by the TV - But everybody is still wearing a mask and acting really hostile to people who dare cough in the bus.
What is? Making a few puns based on pork/bacon/rashers/ham etc? Lighten up. Secondly, I'm not spamming, I'm writing reasoned responses. (However, if your 'spam' comment was a pig-related pun, I take that back and take my hat off to you.) Good day, old bean.
It's because you keep doing triple posts and stuff like that. This forum doesn't automatically combine them so it looks like your trying to rush to 50, lol.
I did ONE triple post - a series of puns, just for a laugh. Sorry about making a couple of jokes if it bothered you. And I've been a member for three months and have, as of this post, 49 posts total. I hardly think that smacks of "racing to 50", do you? (It's a shame you didn't mean the 'spam' joke - it really would have been quite witty.)
it looks now that it isn't that brisant as they tried to tell as at the beginning. anyhow the mexico government corrected the 159 death down to just 7 which really goes in to the account of the swine flu. can someone confirm that?
I don't understand how people can frightened by something like this. You can die in thousands ways everyday, and this is just one more to the long list.
9 dead yesterday, but not as the total. The total is 159. That being said, the Mexican government is always lying and modifying the numbers to its convenience. The guy who makes the announcements keeps contradicting himself. http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2009/04/29/index.php?section=politica&article=003n1pol The real crisis is the economic losses caused by the media frenzy and paranoia, as many restaurants may go broke and lots of people may lose their jobs. Maybe this was the government's intention, to generate fear, confusion, and resentment in Mexico City? (It's governed by a different party than the federal government, and elections are really soon) Tacos stands in the streets are open even when told to shut down, though. Go Dysentery!
http://www.infobae.com/contenidos/445262-101275-0-Edgar-el-niño-que-fue-el-primer-infectado Seems they found patient zero and the region it started from, now let's hope they can contain this shit because like hell am i going to let this mess up my travelling plans
I've just realised that you are not a native English speaker, and can't be expected to understand plays on words, such as those I enjoyed earlier. I do apologise, and I'm so sorry that you didn't recognise my puns. Language is so tricky, isn't it? I always thought I spoke pretty fluent French, but when in a noisy bar with my French friends I really struggled. Anyway, again, apologies for not realising that you didn't get my puns - for example, 'cured' was a reference to a way that ham might be treated, and you couldn't possibly be expected to know that, as a foreigner. Anyway, hope my apologies are accepted. I didn't mean to alarm you. Hope all is well with you and that you don't catch any kind of flu, especially the swine kind!
no problem from my side, it's just that people are already avoiding buying pig meat for no reason putting those who sell it in great economical distress only because of misinformation. whatever, it's not so important
if the Swine Flu is anything like Mad Cow Disease, I want it! Some of my greatest memories have come from tripping on MCD. Barc0de knows...
They are also slaughtering and destroying pigs in Mexico for absolutely no reason other than to slam the stable door shut once the horse has bolted! Pardon the metaphor mixing pigs and horses, but you know what I mean.
Karsten, it is NOT called pig meat (even though it is called svine kød in Danish which means pig/swine meat) but last time I checked, then "pig meat" was called pork in English. But then again I can´t always remember what beef meat is called in English, and I end up calling it either oxe meat or cow meat, but beef meat is "mooh cow meat" and pork is "pig meat".
I think, like everyone else, that the media is overreacting, in the news here in Argentina they said that our government was going start blocking flights from Mexico. @SilverBolt I don't want to sound rude or anything, but, if you're from Holland, why do you read Infobae?
