There are more cases of the Swine influenza reported in US and Canada. Even though symptoms of the patients with flu have been a lot milder than what has been reported in Mexico, there are plenty of concern when you consider your pooning behavior. I was wondering whether some people would consider taking little break from their hobbies or just ignore since no reported cases in Vancouver yet. Be brave or ???????
You aren't alone in your cause for concern Joho. I'm glad that you brought this up, it's been on my mind intensely for the last few days. Watching the news, i see more and more people each day are being infected by this
possible global pandemic. The outbreak has definitely made me reconsider my flight plans. However, i don't believe your pooning would put you at any more risk then anyone else. You don't need to be in such close contact in order to catch this. It's an airborne virus, but you can also catch this off of surfaces you touch that are contaminated by the virus. So essentially, we take a risk of catching this by even leaving our homes.
When this started in Mexico and the deaths climbed so fast, they should have cut off travel into other countries immediately. Maybe they didn't want to alarm people by doing that and it may not have prevented anything, but at least it would have been a proper step to reduce the risk of infecting people around the world.
We're in a very interesting time in our earths history. Over population, global warming etc; is putting our planet and everyone on it in jeopardy. Pretty soon the bubble is going to burst. "Mother Earth" is cleaning the planet and purging it without any personal judgment.
This planet isn't what it once was. Yes, we've become a highly advanced race of human beings. But some of the science we've used to get this far has failed our earth and humankind. And it hasn't ended yet.
