Comments on: ‘Swine’ flu in world pig center

By: Elpidio Esposito

Elpidio Esposito — Thu, 07 May 2009 01:18:46 +0000

The medical quarantine applies to any person “in close
contact” with a “confirmed patient”, not someone of a
specific nationality. To presume a person as a virus-
carrier and quarantine him merely because he presents
a Mexican passport is simply “racial profiling” and is
of course, downright discrimination which should be
condemned by our civilized world.

By: Tina

Tina — Sun, 03 May 2009 03:51:58 +0000

I am in travel industry which is already battered by last year’s financial tsunami until now. Admittedly, this flu scare is over-exaggerated by mass media. The
USA records just one death, whereas its total flu deaths
amount to more than 200,000 every year. Now is just another rock dropped on us in a trapped pit.

By: MING CHEN

MING CHEN — Sun, 03 May 2009 01:12:33 +0000

Swine flu originates from humans, not pigs. Never lay blame on ranch farmers. They are already going broke.

By: Tracy Lloyd

Tracy Lloyd — Sun, 03 May 2009 00:59:18 +0000

I think the Chinese government should act more tactfully in this politcal PR game. You ban Mexican pork and flights, they already reprised tit-fot-tat in kind. But if we as an integrated world community tender aid and relief to each other to irradicate such borderless virus, wouldn’t we live with more mutual accommodation and less discrimination ?

By: Nikkei 225

Nikkei 225 — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:12:22 +0000

This smells a bit like protectionism.