I looove international news <--- sarcasm
So, everyone knows about the swine flu, right?
I've been reading news from all over the world that paint my country as this half-decaying, lawless poor land, where there's no water, no hospitals, no medicine, and no one knows how to take care of a damn flu. I've read some very racist comments, from the usual peanut gallery, which states that this is why 'illegal' Mexicans should stay in their damn country. What I haven't read, is that all the cases that were caught early are now cured, that the situation is under control, and that the health department of my country acted swiftly and, until last week, did it's best to avoid panic.
But the best tidbit of news that apparently no one in English has caught is that now we've pinpointed the focus of the infection, and it's not Mexico City. It's Veracruz. To be exact, a small town called La Gloria, which has the terrible luck of being the place where Granjas Carroll stands. Granjas Caroll, property -co property acording to some articles but most say it's actually 100% owned by- Smithfield Foods Inc, based in Virginia... and who had a swine flu problem in Iowa not long ago. Even better, the people of La Gloria has been complaining about Granjas Carroll for years, but unfortunately, dollars weigh a lot more than pesos in my country, so no one had even listened to them.
So yeah. I would love for at least one international news caster (Preferably the BBC that informed that the mexican goverment was hiding the death bodies so no one would see how incompetent they are) would pick this up. Or the fact that the Iowa medical labs *had* identified the swine flu and noticed that their cases had the same strain as the one in Mexico and didn't say anything until after the first ten deaths.
But sigh. What can you do? Death tolls sell a lot more newspapers than the truth.
I've been reading news from all over the world that paint my country as this half-decaying, lawless poor land, where there's no water, no hospitals, no medicine, and no one knows how to take care of a damn flu. I've read some very racist comments, from the usual peanut gallery, which states that this is why 'illegal' Mexicans should stay in their damn country. What I haven't read, is that all the cases that were caught early are now cured, that the situation is under control, and that the health department of my country acted swiftly and, until last week, did it's best to avoid panic.
But the best tidbit of news that apparently no one in English has caught is that now we've pinpointed the focus of the infection, and it's not Mexico City. It's Veracruz. To be exact, a small town called La Gloria, which has the terrible luck of being the place where Granjas Carroll stands. Granjas Caroll, property -co property acording to some articles but most say it's actually 100% owned by- Smithfield Foods Inc, based in Virginia... and who had a swine flu problem in Iowa not long ago. Even better, the people of La Gloria has been complaining about Granjas Carroll for years, but unfortunately, dollars weigh a lot more than pesos in my country, so no one had even listened to them.
So yeah. I would love for at least one international news caster (Preferably the BBC that informed that the mexican goverment was hiding the death bodies so no one would see how incompetent they are) would pick this up. Or the fact that the Iowa medical labs *had* identified the swine flu and noticed that their cases had the same strain as the one in Mexico and didn't say anything until after the first ten deaths.
But sigh. What can you do? Death tolls sell a lot more newspapers than the truth.