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Post by Martina on Apr 30, 2009 9:08:04 GMT -5
I guess this is a huge subject everywhere in the World right now....
How do you feel about this? Are you worried and feared or do you think the media just pushes this case leading everyone to panic!?!
We currently have 3 confirmed cases here in Germany - all of those people came back from holidays in Mexico. From what the media is telling here it seems it will be under control...
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Post by olyalera on Apr 30, 2009 16:49:01 GMT -5
In France, sounds it's similar to Germany . Despite the fact some medias try to panic a bit the people, things sound to be under control. But things can apparently change, I just hope it's only an alert with low reality consequences (like chicken flu last year).
In Russia, the subject sounds to be far , lost in the World.
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Post by trampoliningislife on May 6, 2009 16:15:33 GMT -5
Here in the UK i personally feel the media is making it out to be such a big deal, when its not even as many people who die from regular flu each year. The only people who have died from it were in mexico (my theory being repeated exposure to the source) and anyone who has travelled back from mexico has been fine.
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Post by ozrussia on May 13, 2009 16:58:03 GMT -5
Yeah, I am quite sure medias firstly did an excessive coverage about this topic. Now the subject seems to have less interest for them on tv and newspapers. we'll never change press and medias.
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Post by kitty on May 13, 2009 17:25:40 GMT -5
I think it is a desperate attempt to get everyone in a panic so the governments can mess around when the population isn't looking.
I think more people died today from heart attacks than have caught the swine flu altogether.
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Post by Hazel on May 13, 2009 17:47:47 GMT -5
As you all know I live in Mexico... Mexico City to be exact, the source of this swine flu... I can only speak for my country, but I think there was indeed an epidemy, I have a Mexican friend from youtube who is a doctor and he told me that there was an epidemy of flu that the Health Department was not talking about, this was the day before the general alert was given... next thing I know the country was economically paralysed, schools, restaurants, cinemas etc... were closed for 10 days.
During 10 days of isolation I had loads of time to talk to my friends about this, and I tend to think that there was indeed an epidemy and that we ought to be careful but not to panic and believe absolutely everything the media was telling.
I believe that indeed Mexico and the USA have a very large number of infected people but I think the rest of the world is fine and will continue to be fine by simply taking extra precautions without panicking.
As for us the worst has passed, although many people are still sick they have good chances of survival and the virus is not as spreading that much anymore... now the big task will be to raise the crushed economy from the ground...
But if you ask me: was the epidemy real? I say yes.
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Post by ozrussia on Jun 6, 2009 16:35:41 GMT -5
Not a lot of news about it... but now we also have more people ill without being to Mexico or Usa. So the epidemy is a reality.
But surprisingly, medias now prefer to avoid the topic in France.
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Post by kitty on Jun 10, 2009 16:31:04 GMT -5
There were a handful of cases total in the US (like under 1,000) and 2 total people died. One was a young Mexican boy who had it when he came to the US and the other was an elderly sick woman.
Hardly an epidemic. Regular flu takes out more people than this ever did!
Also, the schools panicked here and let everyone out as well. It didn't help a bit.
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