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simgaroopMEXICO 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 :(
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 :(
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Date: 2009-04-25 05:15 pm (UTC)I don't have much to add to what everyone else said (except also wash your hands.) It looks as though the same virus is here in Southern California, though it isn't causing as many problems. I suspect some of this is scare and panic. I remember a lot of fear when swine flu broke out in Fort Dix, NJ, and legionnaire's disease, and a lot of other things, but when the whole thing was over, very few people even got the disease, let alone died from it. So take all the precautions you think are necessary, but also try not to worry. And keep us posted.