New cases in California....the articles noted that these children had not been to Mexico...by why bother when Mexico comes to ya every day!
[Updated at 12:50 p.m.: The Sacramento County public health officer, Dr. Glenna Trochet, said that swine flu had been confirmed in a seventh-grader at St. Mel’s school in Fair Oaks. Three other children at the school had similar symptoms and were being tested, she added. All four had mild cases and recovered or are recovering.]
State officials are trying to confirm what may be the eighth case of swine flu in California, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said today at an impromptu news conference in Beverly Hills.
The latest possible infection involves a seventh-grader in Sacramento. It follows four confirmed cases in San Diego County and three in Imperial County.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/04/schwarzenegger-flu.html
I’m quite comfortable with Schwarzenegger in charge. /s
Re: “New cases in California....the articles noted that these children had not been to Mexico...by why bother when Mexico comes to ya every day!..................”
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Right — Mexico is here all the time because the Mexicans are here — legally or illegally. And here in Los Angeles where Mexican kids make up the majority of ‘students’(ha) in LA Unified Schools, the parents take them back to Mexico constantly, even during non-vacation times.
A friend of mine is a substitute teacher at many elementary schools in heart of L.A. and says kids disappear for a week or more at a time, then return after a family visit to Mexico to see the relatives. Education is not stressed in these families at all — they see the classroom as a babysitter and teachers all say the kids don’t pay attention and don’t learn anything. Many of the adults in the homes don’t speak English but most of the kids do as they are born here, the so-called “anchor babies” of illegals.
FWIW, this teacher friend of mine is ALWAYS sick with colds and flu from all those kids — the schools in L.A. where he teaches are 98% hispanic/Mexican. The only kids who are not hispanic or black in L.A. Unified are a few in some suburbs and that’s where the white and asian kids are found in small numbers.
So no, it does not matter whether or not the kids have been to Mexico, there are so many Mexicans here all the time that it makes no difference.