Puzzling

Dunno, my state is fairly blue but there have been no reported cases [yet].

Realistically, I'd say it's tracking population density and movement. Naturally it's going to strike the two hottest spots in the U.S., NY and LA.

Tim

Faux News is trying to claim that illegal aliens are transferring the flu northward yet only the cases near San Diego could actually be vectored that way. The New York cases are from some students who visited Mexico City. The thing that has serious people worried is not illegal aliens but rather those who travel by air. In just a few hours, contagion can travel all over the world and that's why it pops up in weird places.

I suppose the 6 Texas cases, by your logic, would be predicted to come from Austin.

NYC gets a lot of international travel and has a fairly high density.

28 of NYC's 45 cases were in a single, private school -- St. Francis Preparatory School in Queens. I'll let you speculate about that.

Jon

More likely the Mexicans can't afford to go to the hospitals in Arizona, and die at home of some unidentified and undocumented lung infection.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

I have it on good authority (Boing-Boing) that the swine flu was genetically engineered by the government to selectively infect conspiracy theorists.

It effects those who went to Mexico for spring break. This would tend to select for those who live in colder places and can afford the trip. California and New York city are places where people still have enough money for the trip.

The Mexicans in Arizona are doing fairly well. They get about $50 a month per customer to mow the lawn. Since Arizona is a hot dry hell hole, no grass actually grows. The Mexicans only need to show up to collect the $50 from the locals. Since it takes less than an hour to do the collection, the Mexicans are making over $50 an hour.

There you go, I knew it !-)

...Jim Thompson

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You leftist weenies are just FULL of bull shit, aren't you.

I listen to Fox News Radio from 10AM to 6PM daily (*)... not a peep of such a claim.

(*) Local right wing talk radio, 7AM to 10AM, until Rush... turn off Rush and switch to Fox webcast ;-)

Airplanes are nasty for spreading such contagion. Still can't figure why no AZ cases, in spite of Mexico being the local students' first choice for partying, first booze, and first time getting laid ;-)

...Jim Thompson

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They were so drunk that they never left their rooms?

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Reported being the key word here. Perhaps the public health system in AZ is so bad that they have no idea who is dying of what.

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Liberals have no clue about reality. This is God's country. You ought to check it out sometime. However, before you get enamored... we average 109 days per year with temperatures in excess of 100°F. In other words, "Welcome to Arizona, now go home" ;-)

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Those hospitals are free, dolt.

James Arthur

What kind of response do you expect from that dolt-of-all-dolts, Slowman?

I'm always pleased to note that I'm the highest standard for Slowman's disdain, but please don't feed the jerk. Let him die that most unpleasant of deaths... alone ;-)

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Because the students don't go deep enough into Mexico to reach the site of the outbreak?

Usually they just hop the border & party.

Cheers, James Arthur

You mean, Arizona, of all ststes, has gone Socialist?

Thanks,

ER visits are always free to the poor--that's federal law.

Cheers, James Arthur

Arizona has flu-hostile weather, and maybe Arizonians take care of their OWN health. And generally you don't kiss your Mexican leaf blower guy.

And old farts aren't really that much at risk, The way I heard it, it's the gen-Y's amd tweemers (20's - 30's) that are getting it most - the generation when people started protecting theeir little darlings from real life, obsessively sterilizing everything in sight, depriving the kids' bodies of the opportunity to build up a healthy immune system - kids are _supposed to_ eat dirt, get bumps and scrapes, and do all manner of dangerous stuff!

Cheers! Rich

Or distract the public's attention from the torture scandal.

Thanks, Rich