Some More Flu News

Just checked on Yahoo news that there are now 141 cases of the Swine flu in the U.S. Here in San Antonio or the South Texas region, some more cases were reported or confirmed... Seguin, Tx. for instance. Some more schools and other public places were going to be closed. For awhile, because of the virus, it was determined that the regional high school track meet would need to be canceled which caused much consternation mainly because it was a possibility that the athletes with the best running times, best high jumps, etc. would not be competing at the state meet. The plan, I believe was to take the best times from more recent meets and choose the participants accordingly. Well, after all that, the athletic governing body of Texas, the UIL, decided to reverse its decision to cancel the regional meet.


And it is hard to determine which places need to be closed, what events need to be canceled, and so on. I can understand the government's difficulty in making these decisions, which is why--in the ironic sense--I found at least one report on the national news yesterday amusing. Some schools in the Ft. Worth area had been closed because of the outbreak. Well, the mothers of these kids (and they were young kids, first or second graders) decided to organize a gathering, and the kids were shown playing baseball or softball. I'm sure many frowns arose from that; but you certainly can't expect mothers of young children to be keeping them indoors all day even with the current circumstances. Just wait till you're a parent.

I was watching an article on CNN showing Dr. Sanjay Gupta in Mexico seeking "patient zero" or the person who started all this. I believe he was in a town called Longoria. He found the patient which turned out to be five-year old boy. Apparently, the boy had been ill in late February or early March; and by the time he recovered, it had been too late to determine that he had indeed carried the virus and that it had already spread. So that is what I am going by so far.

So, of course, conspiracy theorists--which I do have a healthy respect for ( Healthy respect for because I have yet to see anyone produce the African Green Monkey which was supposed to be the instigator of the AIDs virus. Where is it?)--weigh in with their thoughts. "Government control, government control," is usually the mantra attributed to these people, "the government (federal that is) is seeking more control by falsifying facts about this virus so that the president can eventually declare martial law." Far-fetched? Well, did we ever think that the Federal government would eventually own about sixty percent of GM under the guise of trying to get it back on course? Something to think about.