Mexico shuts down to control flu

[dipsydoodle]

Source: BBC News

Mexico is beginning a five-day shutdown of parts of its economy in a bid to slow the spread of swine flu.

Non-essential government services will be suspended, while businesses such as cinemas and restaurants will be closed.

Mexican officials say the spread of the virus - suspected in more than 160 deaths - is slowing, but international experts are more cautious.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8028169.stm

[Tangerine LaBamba]

1. Mexico is a big place,

and I'm wondering if the majority of the deaths are concentrated in any one place - i.e., Mexico City?

Because, if they are, then shutting down the whole country doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me.......................

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Economic cost is about 1B already

according to Mexican Ambassador on NPR today

[Mind_your_head]

3. Cinco de Mayo has a new meaning......Siesta!

The "five-days-in-May Slumber"

I think it should become an annual tradition.

:toast:

[Doctor Cynic]

4. President Mexico: SHUT...DOWN...EVERYTHING!!!!

[mzmolly]

5. Smart idea. I think Biden's gaffe

was perhaps more planned than we know?

[L. Coyote]

6. When did speaking TRUTH become a gaffe?

[mzmolly]

7. Sorry, I missed the quotation marks.

;) "gaffe" <<<

[daleo]

8. This seems like a fairly drastic response

I wonder what it portends.