KSG_Standard Posted May 4, 2009 Share Posted May 4, 2009 As of today, there is, I believe, one confirmed case of the swine flue in Nueces County (my home county) and they just announced that ALL Corpus Christi schools are closed for 9 days...ALL extra curricular sports activities are canceled for at least 9 days as well....What they heck are they thinking? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murph Posted May 4, 2009 Share Posted May 4, 2009 They will all get paid, and not have to work. What the hell are you thinking? People who don't have to produce anything to make money live for this sh!t. It's called a Union. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AXE® Posted May 4, 2009 Share Posted May 4, 2009 Texas Unions = oxymoron... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murph Posted May 4, 2009 Share Posted May 4, 2009 And my 3rd Grader has 30 pounds of books in her back pack, and 3 hours of homework. Don't get me started. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AXE® Posted May 4, 2009 Share Posted May 4, 2009 And my 3rd Grader has 30 pounds of books in her back pack' date=' and 3 hours of homework. Don't get me started.[/quote'] Holy crap Murph !!!!!!!!!!! Get started buddy !!! Let it out !!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KSG_Standard Posted May 4, 2009 Author Share Posted May 4, 2009 I'm fortunate that my wife is a teacher so, she's off with the kids. These 9 days will really suck for other parents that work and that aren't teachers. Our teachers are unionized.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riffster Posted May 4, 2009 Share Posted May 4, 2009 They will all get paid' date=' and not have to work. What the hell are you thinking? People who don't have to produce anything to make money live for this sh!t. It's called a Union.[/quote'] That was a good laugh Murph, I will have to quote this one day... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pumpkin Posted May 4, 2009 Share Posted May 4, 2009 Our teachers are unionized.... one of the very few unions in texas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murph Posted May 4, 2009 Share Posted May 4, 2009 That was a good laugh Murph' date=' I will have to quote this one day...[/quote'] Quote. I'll do it for you. No offense KSG, you know me better than that. I just think the schools go out of their way to "call off" school. They do it here if it is foggy. They watch a movie for class, and send home a ton of homework. Murph. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KSG_Standard Posted May 4, 2009 Author Share Posted May 4, 2009 Quote. I'll do it for you. No offense KSG' date=' you know me better than that. I just think the schools go out of their way to "call off" school. They do it here if it is foggy. They watch a movie for class, and send home a ton of homework. Murph.[/quote'] No offense taken, you are correct sir... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Californiaman Posted May 4, 2009 Share Posted May 4, 2009 In San Luis Obispo county the "Grizzly Academy" has seven confirmed cases. This is an academy for kids with problems. They have them all under quarantine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrosurfer1959 Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 279 cases confirmed in the US so far one death in texas a person that was brought here infected wonder what this will cost the tax payers, do we know how to panic or what. meanwhile how many thousand have died from the regular flu? Starting to feel like the Men in Black movie where they said there's always a galactic something waiting to kill us all maybe it was better when it wasn't the number one news story and none of us knew? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MReynolds Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 279 cases confirmed in the US so far one death in texas a person that was brought here infected wonder what this will cost the tax payers' date=' do we know how to panic or what. meanwhile how many thousand have died from the regular flu?[/quote'] The thing is if you compare the statistics so far we can only hope it doesn't do a repeat of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic. They had similar statistics were there was a mild wave of flu in the Spring/Early Summer and then it re-emerged in the fall to cause the fatal pandemic that we know from history. Note the graph at the CDC of the progression: If you want to read what happened check out: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol12no01/05-0979.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KSG_Standard Posted May 5, 2009 Author Share Posted May 5, 2009 Or read "The Great Influenza" by John M. Barry...a NYT Bestseller from 2004...great book! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrosurfer1959 Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 understood and I have read "the great influenza" and many others it's interesting how many different opinions there are among experts in a recent response class put out by the CDC there were two experts with opposite expectations. Most people that feel this influenza will not be overly severe point out that we live in a very different world then we did in the last pandemic and point out that Mexico city with it's 20 million residents live at a physical level much closer in medical response and cleanliness that is similar to the normal american lifestyle during the last big pandemic outbreaks. here is a large text file that is somewhat interesting if anyone cares to read it... If your not interested sorry about the long post please disregard Swine flu scare Computer simulation of swine flu worst case in U.S. projects 1,700 cases Published 1 May 2009 Computer simulation of worst-case swine flu epidemic in the United States projects 1,700 cases in four weeks from now; affected locations largely correspond to major transportation hubs in the country Large-scale computer simulations run by Northwestern University researchers show worst-case scenario projections of approximately 1,700 cases of swine flu for the entire United States four weeks from now. Associate Professor Dirk Brockmann and his research group have found that the major areas projected to have incidents in the worst-case scenario include California, Texas, and Florida. Worst-case scenario means that no measures have been taken to combat the spread of disease. These numbers would, of course, be lessened by preventive measures already under way. Under the worst-case scenario, more than 100 cases are projected for the Chicago area. The affected locations largely correspond to major transportation hubs in the country. The researchers also will be running simulations on the possible time course of the spread of swine flu in Europe. Brockmann says their swine flu results are in excellent agreement to those of a research group at Indiana University led by Alex Vespignani that is using a different method. "The Indiana group uses a different computational approach, and the agreement of our results is promising and an indicator of reliability in both methods," says Brockmann, associate professor of engineering sciences and applied mathematics at the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science.?Brockmann and his doctoral students Christian Thiemann, Rafael Brune, and Alejandro Morales-Gallardo are constantly updating the simulation, taking into account new information on confirmed cases and more precise information on transmissibility and disease-specific parameters. Brockmann has extensive experience modeling the spread of disease. His high-performance computer clusters can be used to simulate an infectious disease that spreads among 300 million people. "We can, on a very realistic scale, try to model an epidemic that has the same size as a real epidemic," he says. In order to understand how disease travels, Brockmann also must understand human transportation networks. "These networks play an important role in the spread of infectious disease," he says. "So we're looking at how people travel in the United States and Europe and trying to find a theory behind human traffic. Then we can unravel the structures within these networks and explain them." One way to track how people travel is to monitor how money travels. In a 2006 study, Brockmann used data from WheresGeorge.com -- a site where users enter the serial numbers from their dollar bills in order to track their travels -- to create a model to predict the probability of a bill staying within a 10-kilometer radius over time. From that information, Brockmann found a key factor in his disease-spread modeling approach: very accurate datasets on human mobility. This multi-scale human mobility network included small-scale daily commuting traffic, intermediate traffic and long-distance air travel, which helps determine how a disease could potentially spread. Brockmann and his research group also have created a map of community boundaries in the United States based on human mobility, rather than the usual state-line boundaries of rivers, mountain ranges or administrative lines. The map shows that some states, like Missouri, are essentially cut in half -- likely due to two large cities that lie on either side of the state. Other boundaries are islands in the middle of states, as is the case with Santa Fe, New Mexico. "These boundaries might be better suited for developing mitigation strategies against epidemics," Brockmann says. "We're working on creating a similar map for Europe." For his work, Brockmann collaborates with linguists, epidemiologists, ecologists, and other scientists from around the world. He is motivated by results that could potentially be useful for humanity. "I want to do work that is important, that involves pressing matters," he says. "It motivates me to do research on complex systems that will eventually improve life." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Robot Posted May 5, 2009 Share Posted May 5, 2009 I don't mind it if people do overreact a little and put their emergency management plans into practice. It is an opportunity to test them out and prepare people in case a more serious problem comes along. So we shouldnt be too quick to criticise. And I dont think it is a union thing. I suspect it is a risk management thing - people and schools are concerned for welfare of the kids in their care AND for getting sued. Imagine the uproar if this thing had spread like wildfire. They'd be looking for scapegoats everywhere! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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