There's nothing relating the wedding to the swine flu, so don't worry! The topic did come up between Nikki (one of Suzanne's bridesmaids) and me at the wedding rehearsal dinner though. As a mother of a five month old- she's rightly concerned, more about the next flu season than for right now. The Swine Flu is already mutating and showing resistance to Tamiflu- not good.Many people know the Swine Flu originated in Mexico. It wasn't contained in time and followed the airline routes to the rest of the world- growing to become a pandemic. Not many people know about the first victim, a young boy named Edgar who lives in the stench and pollution of the pig farms. He survived it and Mexico thinks the Swine Flu Boy could be a big tourist draw. I call this another example of "Mexico SOS" - being "stuck on stupid". I seriously doubt anyone is going near his pig farm city anytime soon to spend their dollars- or even pesos. It's almost so stupid an idea to be unbelievable. I know you didn't believe me Nikki- so here is the Swine Flu boy Edgar with his statue. He's holding a frog in his left hand to represent the biblical symbol of the plague- nice touch huh?
At the same time Mexico is promoting Swine Flu Tourism, they are livid at the media for ruining their tourism business. The cruise ship lines cancelled all their Mexican ports of call for over a month during the initial Swine Flu outbreaks. The economic impact to port cities was very bad. But blaming the media? Maybe they should have re-thought claiming it as their own and making it a tourist attraction. Ya think?
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