This Swine flu is like Sars in Asia with fear spreading everywhere. Since the US has such a large and mobile population, this will devastate our economy. It will disrupt all agriculture and other food exports of the US and Mexico, restrict all travel and commerce activities. All the restaurants and public gathering events will suffer. This is a one two punch to our already dire recession.
This a wake up call for all our corrupt politicians for decades not paying attention to our border control and domestic needs, instead the politicians spent the energy of this country starting unnecessary wars in the Middle East. In Asia, during the Sars epidemic, all the countries are still able to control the border and quarantine the infected people. With this outbreak of Swine flu, it will be devasating for us, as we have a porous border with illegals from Mexico coming in by the thousands every month, and they are no where to be tracked. Just imagine, there are thousands of infected Mexicans already crossed the US border for the past couple of weeks, as we caught the ball too late.. THE KEY IS THAT WE CANNOT CONTROL THE BORDER !!!
Guess what, all the Mexicans would probably all want to flee to the US illegally to avoid this Swine flu, and for free treatment... this will be a killer for us. The situation is dire, and our health officials caught this situation too late, and probably the situation is more dire than reported...
Read a selection of BBC readers' comments below at -- http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/talking_point/8018428.stm
I work as a resident doctor in one of the biggest hospitals in Mexico City and sadly, the situation is far from "under control". As a doctor, I realize that the media does not report the truth. Authorities distributed vaccines among all the medical personnel with no results, because two of my partners who worked in this hospital (interns) were killed by this new virus in less than six days even though they were vaccinated as all of us were. The official number of deaths is 20, nevertheless, the true number of victims are more than 200. I understand that we must avoid to panic, but telling the truth it might be better now to prevent and avoid more deaths.
This is a very dire situation for the US....
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