Thread: Watch the Pandemic Spread from Mexico

Buy the numbers, this is the CDC Center for Disease Control Flu Maps on a loop in order starting about Oct. and going to April 15.

Original can be found here: http://www.weather.com/activities/healt ... ional.html

White - No Report
Green No Activity
Yellow - Sporadic
Orage Red - Local Activity
Dark Red - Regional Widespread

Louisana didn't have good reports because of Katrina.

Don't tell me these people don't make us sick. I bet you can do this with a lot of other diseases. Do you know that I will fell fine as long as I don't go to W-M are walk around with them. I wash my hands the minuite I get home and I try to avoid people but I get sick every freaking time and I don't have a low resistance to colds and things. I don't go when a lot of hispanics are in the store because I have caught so many things when I've gone in the past. "They make me sick".

Bush Baby is saying that if a Pandemic stikes, it wont matter if they are here or not. Let me see, I would rather err on the side of caution.

Note this. California, Michigan and I think New York are the first to turn Yellow. However, it spead across the nation from Mexico. You would think it would meet in the middle somewhere if Mexico was not the direct mass infector.

Dixie

Dixie,

Handwashing is vital. Don't know if you've read my other posts...my mother is 87 and has Alzheimer's. I can no longer count on her following instructions to keep her hands away from her face. So, I keep Purel or other hand disintectant towellettes in my purse, use one on the shopping cart handle, PRIOR to her putting her hands on it, then clean our hands before getting into our car. No, I'm not obsessive-compulsive. I took microbiology and swabbed things like shopping carts for class, then grew them out.

Doing that one simple thing has kept her well this past winter.

Sorry, still waking up.

re: the pandemic possibility & Bush's plan.

Unreal, like the rest of current policy! He'll possibly shut down international flights, but NOT close the border?!!!!?????

Oh yes, that REALLY makes sense (sarcasm intended).

Well when you live 30 to a house and sleep ontop of one another it's not that difficult to spread anything. Imagine 30 people all coughing and sweating in the same room/house.....If bird flu ever gets here, Illegal communities will the be the first to have it like wildfire...

Many keep chickens illegaly in town as well....

I am susceptible to colds, flu, pneumonia....I hardly go anywhere after school starts b/c of the viruses and bacteria...I threatened to start wearing disposable gloves so I could go out and shop....LOL..and I may do it, too. I'm almost obsessive about washing my hands. I'm the cook, of course, but no one has ever taken cold from me...but they do pass theirs around...sigh...wash hands wash hands wash hands....it's vital if you're going to stay well.

MJ

Originally Posted by MustangJo

I am susceptible to colds, flu, pneumonia....I hardly go anywhere after school starts b/c of the viruses and bacteria...I threatened to start wearing disposable gloves so I could go out and shop....LOL..and I may do it, too. I'm almost obsessive about washing my hands. I'm the cook, of course, but no one has ever taken cold from me...but they do pass theirs around...sigh...wash hands wash hands wash hands....it's vital if you're going to stay well.

MJ

Some supermarkets are giving the disposable gloves to shoppers who want them. I guess after a national report on how many more germs were on a shopping cart as opposed to a public toilet.

I wash the tops of soda cans and canned goods. Money is one of the dirtiest things on the planet. Just imagine where the Dollar has been. ewww I hate touching money about as much as the bathroom door handle. On my trips to WM, I'm catching airborne stuff. I hear someone cough, I get away from them because of TB. These foolish people will kill you with their ignorance.

Thirty plus years ago, wearing gloves was not a fashion statement, it was a cleanliness necessity and self preservation. I've actually considered wearing them to the store. I look at the Japanese and wonder about mask too. What a mess.

Dixie

When I am out in public I touch as little as possible and carry wipes with me as I would not touch the sinks or anything else for that matter in public restrooms these day. Some markets in our area do have wipes available to wipe the shopping cart prior to using, if not I have my own. The less you touch the less likely you are to catch some dreaded disease. I use the sleeve of my shirt or coat to open doors, but that does not work in the summer I just use a few kleenex or papertowel, it looks stupid but I do not get sick.

They can freaking give us all the flu in under a few months. How fast can the kill us with the Chicken Flu. We need to close our border!!!!!!!!!!

Dixie