Fearmongering hits Mexican economy and pork prices hard
It has been entertaining (kind of) to watch the amount of fear based generated by the supposed, alleged, sort of a pandemic caused by the swine flu. Unfortunately, today Reuters has burst the bubble:
Its global spread has kept alive fears of a possible pandemic, although scientists say this strain does not appear more deadly than seasonal flu. via WRAPUP 2-Chinese, Mexicans return home as flu fears ease | Markets | Markets News | Reuters.
The bad news is that Mexican citizens have been held in quaranteen all over the world. The Mexican tourism industry has taken a huge hit and pork producers are see the prices for pork fall as the great unwashed start to believe they can catch the flu from their pork chop.
The good news is that UN and WHO officials have gotten huge amounts of media air time and they all can have a big meeting in Geneva in a few weeks, drink excellent cocktails and enjoy gourmet dinners.
According to the article above the number of confirmed death by swine flu has reached the staggering total of 26. By comparison, in the U.S. (pop. 300+ million) approximately 7,000 people die every day from various causes. Think about it.
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Once again we are being led around by the nose by the totaly un-informed press, who by the way are supposed to be our firewall between fact and fiction. They would rather be there first,and wrong, than be there second with the facts. This whole Swine Flue fiasco reminds me of the same headlines that were prominent back in the 60’s. Same name, same hype. We all dutifully went down and got our ” Swine flu shots ” as good americans, and then were totaly amazed that nothing ever happened. There was NO SWINE FLU!! Just like today.
I know that some will condemn Gov. Schwartzineger for ” over reacting ” but he really did not have a choice. Damnd if you do, damnd if you don’t.
Come-on folks, lets get a life here,start thinking on your own. Don’t let the press and the government rule your lives. If it sounds too good to be “false”, then it probably IS.