It is younger adults who are flooding back into our State, coming back from Mexico, that have the Swine Flu !!!!!!!!!

I watched a number of News Videos from  the Airports  in Europe with Honeymooners just coming in from Mexico!  Talking about a younger woman on flight  who was sick and coughing.

Then there were the Honeymooners at the Ticket Counters  in Europe getting the News that their flights to Mexico were cancelled and it was the women who were moaning the most about it ! They wanted to go there so badly …. even now? Yes, Even with the Swine Flu there and with all the reasons the Country was closing every thing down, was not a good enough reason to them …..  not to go!? Moan Oh whoa is me! or is that woe is me?

Is it that old time fearless youth thing/ gene again ? That older adults take advantage of in time of war ……. etc.

I guess it is in the genes for some good reason?  Like The leave home,  fly on your own …….  time line period?

But is used in a few crazy reasoning’ s also.

Time to party and get drunk  as I am now 21 and an Adult or at College?

Ahhhhh heck! It will never happen to me! I will not be the one that dies?

I can not appear whimpy in front of my friends?

My Hero Cartoon charactor never lets anything stop them?

That built in gene maybe ……  is lingering too long for some?

Like I was watching The Doctors for the second time in flipping channels and Here was a Staff member ….. moan!

She had planned to get away to relax from work and her family in Mexico at a Resort. Well, maybe there was no return on the money? That could be a moaner!

She was checking with doctors, who said they would not go, when she asked them if they would!

They told her what gloves and masks to buy and types of hand cleaners to use. She put this all on and said, how could I relax with this all on?

Then the doctors told her what precautions to take when she returned home to protect her children from herself if she caught the Swine Flu! Hummmmmm  What about all the people she traveled with?

Yes, I am an older Adult. No I did not say I was a smart one …… just a bit wiser. Who stops to think about what I am hearing and seeing.

A person who is around my younger son, yes, a young woman is heading for Mexico next week or was that this week! Why?

I told him to know her return date, so he can be prepared if he has to come in contact with her! Mask, gloves and he says a  space suit would be a good idea, too! No for real!

Flu forecasts come true

Posted: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 7:40 PM by Alan Boyle<!– Alan Boyle –>

This week’s alarms over swine flu may have come as a shock to most people, but not to experts in threat prediction: One company said it began warning public-health agencies about the potential for a pandemic weeks ago. Today, the spread of swine flu is being tracked in real time on interactive maps – and prediction experts have set up a market to forecast the flu outbreak’s future.

Keeping track of the outbreak is all in a day’s work for Veratect, a company based in Kirkland, Wash., that monitors health threats as well as terrorist attacks and natural disasters. “Unfortunately for all of us, there’s a lot of that going on every day,” Bob Hart, the company’s president and chief executive officer, told me today.

“The world map is completely swamped with yellow and red alerts,” he said.

Veratect started watching the reports from Mexico on March 30, and by mid-April the upswing in flu cases was serious enough to trigger two waves of e-mail alerts, sent out from Veratect to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other public-health agencies. Nevada’s state epidemiologist, Ihsan Azzam, said in a Veratect statement that those were “the very first alerts I received regarding this swine-flu epidemic.”

On April 20, Veratect took the extra step of calling up the CDC’s Emergency Operations Center, Hart said. By that time, CDC officials had picked up on reports of unusual swine-flu cases in California and Texas, but Veratect’s data pinpointed Mexico as the emerging epidemic’s epicenter. (This Veratect timeline from the Biosurveillance blog provides a blow-by-blow account.)

“We’re sort of like that fire watchtower,” Hart explained in an interview with Seattle’s KING-TV. “You’re looking for a few wisps of smoke so you can send people in when it’s just a smoldering fire as opposed to waiting until it’s got half the Cascades.”

Now the swine-flu outbreak ranks as one of the biggest flare-ups of infectious disease in recent years, and it’s being tracked using Google Maps and Twitter. Meanwhile, Veratect is continuing to monitor the yellow and red dots on its computerized world map. “This is like a weather system for infectious-disease events throughout the world,” the company’s chief technical officer, James Wilson, told KING-TV.