Posts by Lucy Stewart
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The headline on the Stuff page right now is "Minister: Don't Panic". Oh, media.
(Also, who knew Ryall was a Douglas Adams fan?)
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I suspect that former, since the 3News graphics crew has until now never screwed up an image ;)
The lack of skill of whoever does their photoshopping does tend to boggle the mind, it is true.
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Well, either someone at Nightline knows something the rest of the world doesn't, or...someone at Nightline was half-asleep when they put that graphic together. Any bets on which?
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But I'm not seeing this anywhere else. I wonder where they got it from.
The US figure is definitely wrong - although there have been six *cases* (not deaths) in Canada, maybe a mix-up there? Morning Report were saying 150 deaths in Mexico, though, which is quite a sharp increase.
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It took H5N1 a couple of years to break three-figure mortality numbers in any country.
You mean SARS here, right?
And I agree about the numbers, either way. This might not be 1918 all over again, but I wouldn't like to be in Mexico City right now.
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Lucy, that would speak to one hell of a breakdown of the Mexican press. The first wave shouldn't have passed without notice in the space of a month, which is the kind of time period being suggested.
No, absolutely not, which is why it was only a thought. It would explain the virulence differential nicely, but the timing makes it pretty unlikely.
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There was a first wave in the spring that affected the vulnerable and then it seemed to go away. Six months later it came back and this time young adults got sick with very high mortality. The question is whether we are seeing the first or the second wave.
Or - a grim and nasty thought - whether the cases outside Mexico are the first wave, but Mexico has reached the second wave. That would be...not great.
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Uh oh?
Until someone can actually confirm the veracity of those comments, they're on the best-friend's-sister's-dog-walker-said level of accuracy. It's the internet, after all. That said, the press should be making an effort to try and confirm them (e.g. does a doctor by that name work in that hospital? Can we get his phone number?) But until then I'd put them in the rumour basket.
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Not particularly important in the scheme of things, I guess, but as this story begins to get consumed with the fear of the Third World, it would be nice to at least start on the right foot.
Michelle Malkin's already sounding off about how if only all those illegal immigrants weren't flooding across the border the US wouldn't have a problem.
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Interesting new report - they're closing a whole school district in Texas for the next week due to "several confirmed cases of swine flu" (I assume that's the two reported Texas cases, but I'm not sure.)