Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/04/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]As you may know from some of the pictures I posted, my wife and I
were in Mexico end of February for a couple of weeks.
Shortly after we got back I got a high fever interspersed with
chills, severe muscle aches and a tight, constricting cough. After
about 5 days of this the cough eased up a bit and I got pneumonia.
The fever was severe for 3 days, but it took 10 days for it to be
gone. After 2 1/2 weeks the pneumonia was gone, but I still have a
lingering cough and can't breathe completely clearly. No stuffiness
nor stomach issues at any time. We were on the West Coast in the area
of Puerto Vallarta, but many cases have now been diagnosed there.
I didn't die from it (I don't think there is e-mail from the other
side :-)) but it was the sickest I've been in decades.
It seems pretty clear that this thing started a while ago, and I have
since heard from a number of people that have had identical symptoms
going back a number of months. Whether this is the 'swine flu', a
precursor in a developmental stage or something else is hard to tell
at this stage, but it's also something that will be impossible to
contain. The masks, and the way they are deployed in Mexico are
ludicrous and with international travel and incubation periods every
country will be exposed no matter what we do. Travel restrictions
might delay things a little in certain countries, but hurt economies
immensely without actually preventing anything.
The best we can do is to get some of the anti-virals ready and have
them in stock when people need them, for people in all countries.
That is certainly a problem as that cost is too much for individuals
in many countries, and governments in the wealthier countries have a
proven track record of not wanting to help poorer countries even when
the costs aren't that high.
At 8:50 PM +0530 4/28/09, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote:
>Looks like everyone is groping in the dark right now...
>
>Jayanand
>
>On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 8:17 PM, Steve Barbour <kididdoc at cox.net> wrote:
>> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/28/opinion/28barry.html
>>
>>
>> Steve
>>
>>
>> On Apr 28, 2009, at 5:18 AM, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote:
>>
>>> Yet some more practical advice:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>http://www.forbes.com/2009/04/27/swine-flu-mexico-sars-business-healthcare-flu-hysteria.html?partner=daily_newsletter
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Jayanand
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Steve Barbour <kididdoc at cox.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Apr 27, 2009, at 10:05 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Some more on swine flu:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.slate.com/id/2217019/?from=rss
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>
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