Comments on: Swine Flu still a problem http://jmbalconi.stblogs.com/2009/07/09/swine-flu-still-a-problem/ Powered by StBlogs Catholic Blogs and Catholic News Sun, 21 Feb 2010 17:49:02 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: jean http://jmbalconi.stblogs.com/2009/07/09/swine-flu-still-a-problem/comment-page-1/#comment-2327 jean Sat, 11 Jul 2009 17:47:23 +0000 http://jmbalconi.stblogs.com/?p=353#comment-2327 So would my Argentinian correspondent, James. She and her neighbors are disgusted with the lack of information from the government, other than the continued precautions and the death toll (60 on July 8). They still go to work, shop, etc. but wish things would get back to normal. Part of the problem appears to be that there wasn't enough flu shots or antiviral medicine to begin with. I'll be watching for the update on numbers next week. Maybe the worst will be over by then. My cousins won't be traveling to Argentina this summer, at any rate. So would my Argentinian correspondent, James. She and her neighbors are disgusted with the lack of information from the government, other than the continued precautions and the death toll (60 on July 8). They still go to work, shop, etc. but wish things would get back to normal.

Part of the problem appears to be that there wasn’t enough flu shots or antiviral medicine to begin with. I’ll be watching for the update on numbers next week. Maybe the worst will be over by then.

My cousins won’t be traveling to Argentina this summer, at any rate.

]]> By: james healy http://jmbalconi.stblogs.com/2009/07/09/swine-flu-still-a-problem/comment-page-1/#comment-2324 james healy Sat, 11 Jul 2009 16:39:55 +0000 http://jmbalconi.stblogs.com/?p=353#comment-2324 Last time I checked there had been six deaths attributed to swine flu in Britain. So far most of them had other underlying health issues which haven't been specified. That is to say the people who are supposed to have died of swine flu were already at death's door with something else. I still think it's a classic piece of UN hype. The whole declaration of a pandemic smacked of the young UN health staffers having the time of their lives. Much more exciting to declare a world wide pandemic and get to go on CNN, than, er to actually go to work, do your job, declare no pandemic and not get to go on CNN. I doubted their professionalism and their motivation. I would be very curious about the exact nature of the outbreak in Argentina. Yours. Doubting Seamus Last time I checked there had been six deaths attributed to swine flu in Britain. So far most of them had other underlying health issues which haven’t been specified. That is to say the people who are supposed to have died of swine flu were already at death’s door with something else. I still think it’s a classic piece of UN hype. The whole declaration of a pandemic smacked of the young UN health staffers having the time of their lives. Much more exciting to declare a world wide pandemic and get to go on CNN, than, er to actually go to work, do your job, declare no pandemic and not get to go on CNN. I doubted their professionalism and their motivation. I would be very curious about the exact nature of the outbreak in Argentina.
Yours.
Doubting Seamus

]]> By: jean http://jmbalconi.stblogs.com/2009/07/09/swine-flu-still-a-problem/comment-page-1/#comment-2322 jean Sat, 11 Jul 2009 03:41:36 +0000 http://jmbalconi.stblogs.com/?p=353#comment-2322 That's what I was thinking, too. As soon as a danger seems to have passed, we go back to our own concerns and (especially) our entertainment. That’s what I was thinking, too. As soon as a danger seems to have passed, we go back to our own concerns and (especially) our entertainment.

]]> By: ultraguy http://jmbalconi.stblogs.com/2009/07/09/swine-flu-still-a-problem/comment-page-1/#comment-2320 ultraguy Sat, 11 Jul 2009 01:18:02 +0000 http://jmbalconi.stblogs.com/?p=353#comment-2320 Wow... it's amazing how little stories like this penetrate here in the U.S... I thought it was hype, but this is disturbing... a lot of people are probably going to be very surprised in a few months when it migrates here. Wow… it’s amazing how little stories like this penetrate here in the U.S… I thought it was hype, but this is disturbing… a lot of people are probably going to be very surprised in a few months when it migrates here.

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