On Saturday night in Mexico City looked empty, Avenida de la Paz a cobbled street where there are restaurants and bars resembled a quiet colonial town, I went to one of the few bars open , the waiters never been so attentive, the few who dared to taste the night of the city received a five-star attention. The patrons of the bar and the restaurant looked a little careless while the topic at every table was that of influenza, in all the talks could feel a slight grimace of cynicism, skepticism is that the age group most vulnerable, of young people, is by nature carefree and disillusioned. Many wondered if it would be an exaggeration, a trick of the government, a hoax. Anyway there was not much time to exchange ideas, at 11:45 pm came and the waiter told us that the Civil Protection have been asked to close the bar, so he continued the waiter, ask the latter because the bar closes. In Mexico, usually the space between the end of the bar and the output of the parishioners can be extended up to two hours. This time the waiter came back a minute later and told us that this last round would not be possible, the thing is serious thought in the bar, always rules in Mexico are still not applied, this time not to 12 and were on the street.
This morning many of the restaurants look empty and some of the people who walk the streets give the city an air of hospital nurses as they appear with their blue masks. The question remains: How serious is the flu? The immediate response of any well-informed is, if Carstens said the economic crisis was a catarrito, the crisis must be severe because the government has recognized the urgency of action . The truth is that thinking that this is a distraction from the government strategy is almost innocent, the alert is global, just open any news portal. As for the media communication at times seem to exceed their role and become chronic only seen in movies like "Annihilation" and "I Am Legend." Perhaps it is inevitable logic of the media, under the premise that stated a British journalist: news, "if it bleeds it leads" in this case does not bleed but if you sneeze.
For communication from the federal government in the first stage this was pretty bad, it seems that they were unaware that episode after the communication has been more efficient, although the natural distrust towards the political system persists.
In fact the numbers do not seem significant, less than 100 people in a country of more than 100 million seems too little, the statistic speaks of 0.000001 percent of the population. However, the statistic does not say much about the risk, the exponential nature of the spread of a virus is what worries and generates the response of governments and international organizations. Globalization implies a big difference from past epidemics, when was the Black Death in Europe could not board a plane with recirculated air to Japan, China, Brazil or Mexico, the emergence of AIDS can not be explained without globalization, there therefore there is concern that the response of governments and agencies International does not seem exaggerated. For now here I leave this video for those who have spent years studying the pandemic, its nature and appearance. In the first video explains the expansion on 15 minutes. Talk about 3 weeks for a global expansion of a virus.
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