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Look for some swine-flu hysteria in the Globe tomorrow

By adamg on Mon, 04/27/2009 - 12:00pm

Proving it still has a snout for news, the paper is looking for informed, reasoned comments on swine flu from people just back from vacationing in Acapulco and Cozumel:

You swine!

Or they could just ask Randall Munroe. He's local.


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By DVDWow on Mon, 04/27/2009 - 12:11pm.

Or did you plan your vacation to Mexico on Craigslist? CALL US IMMEDIATELY!

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By adamg on Mon, 04/27/2009 - 12:18pm.

Did you hire an erotic dancer from Mexico on Craiglist? CALL US IMMEDIATELY!

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By Sock_Puppet on Mon, 04/27/2009 - 12:42pm.

Do you have comments on how the Swine Flu is affecting the local boutique all-natural free-range heritage pork cottage industry? Call Sarah Schweitzer at the Globe!

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By Spatch on Mon, 04/27/2009 - 12:48pm.

...the Globe commenters continue blaming illegal immigrants for swine flu, exotic dancers, and the fact that Newbury Street is losing business.

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By Sock_Puppet on Mon, 04/27/2009 - 1:05pm.

Herald commenters are demanding a pig be waterboarded immediately until it admits the flu is caused by government over-spending.

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By Kaz on Mon, 04/27/2009 - 12:32pm.

Is this really how you want to go out, buddy?

Really?

Sigh.

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By Ron Newman on Mon, 04/27/2009 - 1:26pm.

The Globe wants to hear from local people who have recently returned from Mexico, who can provide first-person reports of Mexico's response to the flu in the regions where they visited. I see nothing wrong with this request.

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By adamg on Mon, 04/27/2009 - 1:29pm.

The Globe wants to hear from terrified locals deathly afraid they're ALL GOING TO DIE!

I'll be honest: I wouldn't have thought twice about the request (why not reach out to readers via online means?) if they hadn't used that pig photo.

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By Kaz on Mon, 04/27/2009 - 2:07pm.

And that is because of what? We have a higher proportion of biomedical and political and economical professionals here who might be able to enlighten us on the impacts to our economy, healthcare, and near-neighbor foreign policies and the Globe would like to hear from them?

OR is it really because The Globe has absolutely NOTHING to talk about locally with regards to this flu outbreak and is trying to find a pile of babble to force a tower be built from it (They can call it the "Tower of Babble").

Some schmuck that just got back from Cancun is going to say what? "I was worried I was going to die (even though I didn't actually see any real Mexicans, it was all American tourists and people who lost their jobs in the U.S. now working at the malls and resorts)!"

What amazing insight are we going to get from someone who just visited Mexico and then a flu happened?

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By Ron Newman on Mon, 04/27/2009 - 2:42pm.

I'm thinking of things like "We tried to go to Beach A or Movie Theatre B or Disco C, but we couldn't because the health authorities had ordered it closed."

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By neilv on Mon, 04/27/2009 - 2:50pm.

The BBC did have reader reports from, for example, Mexico City ER doctor who said the problem was worse than reported, with some of their staff wiped out and the rest sounding like they were doomed.

I'm sure that numerous student-Bostonians could report back on their spring break humanitarian missions to Mexico. How they doused their T-shirts with water on stage to demonstrate flu decon procedure, shed any potentially contaminated clothing, raised their BAC to 90% to kill any lingering germs, and practiced breeding virus-resistant offspring with a diversity of other spring breakers.

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By SwirlyGrrl on Mon, 04/27/2009 - 2:26pm.

They are already so short staffed that they don't want to send a reporter down there to interview people ... AND DIE

OR ... the person who knew the guy who lives in Mexico that they could pay for a story got laid off and isn't talking, and nobody wants the job.

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Meanwhile, I'm juggling the logistics of an international conference attended by a lot of public health infrastructure folks and madly trying to replace speakers who have been ordered to stay put (or, in one case, work from a pulmonary disease unit in Mexico City).

My mind is starting to generate some seriously black humor.

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