[quote=no_such_reality][quote=Aecetia]Only you would turn this pandemic into an opportunity to misbehave. Why not use your old line about having the antidote or antibodies in your system?[/quote]
Well, I’d bet coffee that the potentially pandemic, super nasty, end of the world flu is the same flu that was going around at the end of spring break that was on the news as a late season flu resurgence.
Now, time for a little math. In the USA, we typically have 36,000 deaths a year from the flu. We have a population of 303,000,000.
Mexico city, let’s call that ground zero, is 24,000,000 in population with much of the population living in poverty.
An equivalent annual death rate would be 2850. Roughly 100/week for the six months of high activity. Mexico, has had 159 in about two weeks.
I would expect Mexico city to have a much worse death rate for general flu than the US due to poverty.
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I think you’re right about the recent flu outbreak. We are now on child #3 with very similar symptoms: high temp (104-ish), sore throat, lethargy, etc. and it lasts longer than anything we’ve had since our kids were born. Many of our friends’ kids have been dealing with exactly the same thing over the past month or so.
