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 ...
Maybe, the dollar store? I got two of the last bottles at Wal-Mart last night.
At least on the non-Kool Aid drinking side, there will be.
I'm afraid the "faithful" will stand drooling in awe of The One until the moment they see their own heart monitor flatline.
Yes the Dollar Tree here has what seems like an endless supply of 62% alcohol sanitizer bottles, in all shapes and colors.
Live in Orlando. Walgreens and CVC were sold out of hand sanitizer, but managed to find some sample sizes at CVC. I bought the last two boxes of N95’s at the Home Depot near where I work......and Florida still is not fessing up to having any “confirmed” cases here.....
Our company is still at work in Guadalajara, as of this post. 3,000 in one plant serving many major US manufactures.
A friend of mine flew home to Orlando from Dallas where he had been attending a conference since Sunday. There were quite a number of people on the plane wearing masks. He had been busy at the conference and hadn’t watched much news so was quite taken aback at all the face masks.
A friend of mine on another board posted this email she received from her doctor in Texas. Its sounding pretty scary to me:
New Braunfels, TX
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The doctor that wrote the email from New Braunfels some are pooh poohing elsewhere on this thread and others has a name.
http://www.vitals.com/doctors/Dr_Marcus_Gitterle.html
http://www.prisonplanet.com/texas-doctor-claims-swine-flu-cases-far-worse-than-reported.html
yeah I know it’s Alex Jones, but this email may be the real deal.
IMO, people are wondering why the government is loathe to do anything about it and not closing the border, etc. Panicking people in a recession, enforcing quarantine, etc. would have negative impact on GDP as well as have a negative impact on social order. Couple that with groups using this situation for political purposes and/or profit, and you’ve got the mass confusion we’re in. Personally I’m not running for the hills yet or shuttering my windows, but I am preparing for the worst and hoping for the best. If this is the “real deal” good luck to all of you
Well, I suppose that someone could get so engrossed in a conference that they might lose track of daily events. I've been to lots of out of town conventions, and have always found at least a few minutes a day to keep up with major events.
Thanks for the links. It looks pretty legit to me as well. I am not freaking either yet...just preparing. Might as well with Mr. Obama in the driver’s seat. He is doing so many crazy and dangerous things, it’s just a matter of time before this country is hit again or suffers some disaster that he causes or fails to prevent/ mitigate.
The real deal is to pay attention to what comes from your county commissioners court, and your county medical director. These folks on here are just stirring up angst and fear. They will tell you to run out and buy useless masks, purchase homeopathic snake oil, attend public gatherings and trust in a common “faith”. Some will even private mail you with deals on antivirals. Charlatans all.
have you seen the following: http://www.ksat.com/health/19336577/detail.html?
I hadn’t had time to look since I submitted some info to snopes earlier about this (around 3:30 p.m. cst), so I assume I’m late on this...
I’ll trade you two 8 oz. bottles of Purell for a case of 9mm shells.
WOW! You think the brownshirts got to him? I find it very odd that anyone would even take task with his letter. It seemed well reasoned and simple to me. He mentions that it was ‘edited’. I wonder what was edited?
It seems very strange..the whole thing. First the authorities and press are scaring everyone to death..then starting just yesterday, the media and the Obama Administration start dialing back everything. I truly believe that people like this doctor and perhaps Joe Biden even are probably pretty close to the truth here as they know it and have been told.
Now suddenly, it’s wrong for a doctor to warn his patients or express his opinion? That is chilling!
Yeah, I responded in much the same vein regarding this to rintense on the thread that battletank originally posted the email in.
I also responded to the original post by battletank with the same link as an FYI.
Sounds to me like he was told that he needed to do some damage control because his email was going viral and making people second guess the CDC and the powers that be.
The way this whole thing is playing out is suspect.
Look at this thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2241886/posts
Seems anyone that speaks out about this flu and even suggests that the borders should be closed or that Mexicans are taxing our system gets fired now! The radio guy might not have been ‘sensitive’ in his remarks..but since when is that a crime? It’s ok for Jeane Garofalo to call Tea Party attendees ‘racist rednecks’ and ‘stupid’ on a major network(NBC) but you better not say anything about Mexicans on a local radio show or in an email to you friends. It’s ok for our DHS secretary to call conservatives and our military threats to our country and terrorists..but you better not say anything about Mexicans.
Where is my country?
Report from relatives in Dolores Hidalgo, Mexico....all schools, all businesses and all places where the public can gather are closed. Period. I’m sure this is all over Mexico per this story....
A case just in case.
“Now suddenly, its wrong for a doctor to warn his patients or express his opinion? That is chilling!”
Actually with the PC thought police, that has been the standard for over two decades re HIV/Aids and diseases those patients have.
Of course for about the same time Doctors who dared to point out the dangerous infectious diseases that illegals carry and harbor, have been met with censure and worse.
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