H1N1 flu has infected Mexico’s relations with China and other countries that have canceled airline flights and halted some trade. But its most prickly neighbor – the United States – now seems like the country’s most loyal friend. Mexico is smarting from what it considers discriminatory actions by countries it had considered friendly, insisting the world should be grateful for its open and aggressive efforts to stem the spread of the H1N1 virus. The shutdown of public life cost Mexico $2.2 billion in the first 10 days after the epidemic was announced. The government sent a plane to pick up ….Read More
08/05/2009
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I’ve stayed away from commenting on the H1N1 influenza outbreak, instead preferring to follow the news and the idiots who made a potential health crisis a cause celebre’ against immigration issues, both legal and illegal, without regard to the real reasons or causes. But fortunately, more people with common sense responded with comments overshadowing those of the nativists. Hindsight is 20/20. So it’s easy now to second-guess the school closings and other, reasonable precautionary measures taken by authorities in the United States in response to the swine flu outbreak. Why the virus has been more deadly in Mexico than elsewhere ….Read More
