Locked up

[simgaroop]

MEXICO CITY – The schools and museums are closed. Sold-out games between Mexico's most popular soccer teams are being played in empty stadiums. Health workers are ordering sickly passengers off subways and buses. And while bars and nightclubs filled up as usual, even some teenagers were dancing with surgical masks on.

Across this overcrowded capital of 20 million people, Mexicans are reacting with fatalism and confusion, anger and mounting fear at the idea that their city may be ground zero for a global epidemic of a new kind of flu — a strange mix of human, pig and bird viruses that has epidemiologists deeply concerned.

And it's just being announced that schools will be closed at least a week.

That means, no work for at least a week for me :(. And according to the news, they are still evaluating if they will eventually declare a full quarantine in the city.

There are no more masks available on stores. We don't have masks, so we're going to search for some today because it's being advised to not leave home without them.

I won't lie to you, I'm also scared :(

Comments

[barbsbookfreak.livejournal.com]

OMG now I'm scared to:(
I hope nothing will happen to you and your family
(and now I'm wondering why I haven't heard anything about it)

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

You haven't? It's all over the news here (in Canada). They have researchers here and in the States working to try to determine what exactly the flu-like condition is.

Last evening, they were saying it was very likely a new strain of swine flu, but that report Simgaroop just posted seems to suggest that it's a new combination of several types of flu, and that idea is very scary. Well, either way a new virus is scary.

[barbsbookfreak.livejournal.com]

Right after my reply it was everywhere...maybe I schould have paid more attention to the news...