#1 Many people are beginning to suspect this is a manufactured virus
#2 I’ve read one site that says this virus is the same or similar to the 1918 virus
#3 What about our food supply? We have many imported foods in the produce section of grocery stores, particularly from Mexico.
If manmade, possibly could fizzle rather quickly. The DNA science is not yet up to good old evolution in the wild.
ex-Texan is one freeper who suggests we lay in a goodly supply of foil against this one, but funny he put it in email to me rather than post to all. I can’t comment because I don’t know whose contradictory account (H1? H5?) is correct.
Food supply, may be more in trouble from Mexicans getting too sick to work harvests than from viruses borne on produce.
Swine flu (H1N1 virus) is a variant / mutant of avian flu (H1N5 virus) which, according to medical and world governments' "experts", was supposed to wipe out quarter to half the world's population... and after costing taxpayers billions of dollars to buy vaccines that nobody used, fizzled out quite nicely due to awareness and changes in hygienic behavior and precautions.
In other words, go long pharmaceuticals and short airlines... and no, it's definitely not a financial advice, only a reflection of what happened in the past with avian flu "pandemic" and what's likely to happen with this swine flu "pandemic".
So get ready for onslaught of political blowhards on the subject. If only we had a vaccine against them!
1:) This could be a very small outbreak that is over reported to allow more control of the population.
2:)If you remember the history of the 1918 flu, it mutated after the first pass around the globe and killed more people on the second pass. Back then borders were relatively closed and transportation was mostly by trains and ships.
3:)You are still buying produce in the grocery? Get that garden started and live on beans and cornbread until it comes in!
You aim it at everyone coming in from Mexico, purely non-invasive testing. Everyone over 100 degrees gets throat/mouthy swabbed and cultured for the virus and contact information established.
Many would be unaware of mild temp increases, this would keep everyone warned and tracked and treated.
The Japanese are doing this right now.
Homeland Security and the CDC is way behind the ball on this.
Many people thought Clinton was going to declare Martial Law on Y2K.
The i918 virus was transited by avian, and went global through that route. It is spring, birds are migrating, and were it that virus it would jump all containment. This also seems to be mutating to a less lethal form much faster than that one.