Welcome to New York, Swine Flu

Nothin like seeing St. Francis Prep on the homepage of fox news: http://www.foxnews.com/

Why can't they just come home from spring break with herpes like everyone else? The kids bring swine flu.

The Clt local news said we may be next due to the large Mexican population here.

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Originally Posted by coachrowsey

The Clt local news said we may be next due to the large Mexican population here.

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There are large Mexican populations all over the US. We're all next!

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Originally Posted by GothamSpotter

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Originally Posted by coachrowsey

The Clt local news said we may be next due to the large Mexican population here.

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There are large Mexican populations all over the US. We're all next!

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Isn't that the truth.

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Originally Posted by jetblue187

I guess I cant do spotting at JFK Airport for a little while..until this flu situation stabilizes.

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Huh? :? :? :?
Just hide when Aeromexico flies past.
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yea right

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Originally Posted by Gerard

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Originally Posted by jetblue187

I guess I cant do spotting at JFK Airport for a little while..until this flu situation stabilizes.

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Huh? :? :? :?
Just hide when Aeromexico flies past.
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I know you're joking, but you raise a good point. The Mexican carriers are actually the minority in NYC-Mexico service.

MEX
AeroMexico: 3
Mexicana: 2
CO: 2
DL: 2
AA: 2

CUN
JetBlue: 2
CO: 2
AA: 1
Mexicana: 1

MTY
AeroMexico: 1

By my calculations, 11 of the 18 daily direct flights between NY-area airports and MEX, CUN and MTY are operated by US carriers. Then there are hundreds more that connect to NY in places like Houston, Florida and LA.

Anyway, most likely those St Francis Prep kids are not the only folks to catch it and bring it to NY, there's a good chance they're not even be the first.

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Originally Posted by GothamSpotter

MEX
AeroMexico: 3
Mexicana: 2
CO: 2
DL: 2
AA: 2

CUN
JetBlue: 2
CO: 2
AA: 1
Mexicana: 1

MTY
AeroMexico: 1

By my calculations, 11 of the 18 daily direct flights between NY-area airports and MEX, CUN and MTY are operated by US carriers. Then there are hundreds more that connect to NY in places like Houston, Florida and LA.

Anyway, most likely those St Francis Prep kids are not the only folks to catch it and bring it to NY, there's a good chance they're not even be the first.

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the CDC must be having a lot of fun tracking all those folks down...

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Originally Posted by cancidas

the CDC must be having a lot of fun tracking all those folks down...

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From what they've said so far they are not tracking anyone down. Doesn't even sound like airport customs nor border patrol are doing much differently other than wearing surgical masks, maybe asking some people about possible symptoms, but that doesn't do much. In Japan and some airports in other Asian cities they have thermal scanners at the airports looking out for people arriving with fevers. Here: nothing.

GERALDO IS EMBEDDED AT ST. FRANCIS PREP! You know this is serious now!

A couple guys on my hockey team know people that are sick from Prep actually. I told the team we played tonight (all Long Island guys) that we all are from Queens and have Swine Flu. We won 9-5. :)

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Originally Posted by GothamSpotter

In Japan and some airports in other Asian cities they have thermal scanners at the airports looking out for people arriving with fevers. Here: nothing.

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this has got to be our gov't's idea of population control...

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Originally Posted by cancidas

this has got to be our gov't's idea of population control...

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The universal healthcare plan would be a lot cheaper if there were 20 million less people to cover. :twisted:

Not enough jobs; time to thin the herd.... ?? :twisted:

T

<<The Senate has yet to confirm a secretary of human services, a surgeon general or a director of CDC. The absence of those officials left Dr. Besser and Ms. Napolitano to brief reporters on the swine flu outbreak.>>

<<A European Union official warned against travel to parts of the U.S. as well as Mexico, but Dr. Besser said that seemed unwarranted.

State Department spokesman Robert A. Wood said the EU commissioner's remarks were his "personal opinion," not an official position, and thus the department had no comment. "We don't want people to panic at this point," Wood said.>>

Should this get serious, Obama is going to have his own Katrina (or much worse) situation on his hands.

Tom

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Originally Posted by Tom_Turner

<<The Senate has yet to confirm a secretary of human services, a surgeon general or a director of CDC. The absence of those officials left Dr. Besser and Ms. Napolitano to brief reporters on the swine flu outbreak.>>

<<A European Union official warned against travel to parts of the U.S. as well as Mexico, but Dr. Besser said that seemed unwarranted.

State Department spokesman Robert A. Wood said the EU commissioner's remarks were his "personal opinion," not an official position, and thus the department had no comment. "We don't want people to panic at this point," Wood said.>>

Should this get serious, Obama is going to have his own Katrina (or much worse) situation on his hands.

Tom

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I doubt it will get that bad Tom. Word has it that as many as a million Mexians have it. If you put the numbers into perspective 149 deaths is nothing.