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It doesn't make sense unless it's crossing via land border In Mexico but there are 0 cases in Mexico.
by dannyr 7y ago
It doesn't make sense unless it's crossing via land border In Mexico but there are 0 cases in Mexico.
- masonic 7y agoThere are zero confirmed and reported cases in Mexico. Mexico is just the final stop for smuggling from about 50 different countries, including quite a few from Africa and the middle east.
- allovernow 7y agoDo you honestly believe that the third world Mexican medical establishment is likely to detect cases early? Do you trust the Mexican government to mount an effective response? Edit: people silently downvoting don't seem to understand the low likelihood of a a highly contagious, asymptomatic virus being detected before a major outbreak, and the sorry state of medical infrastructure in most of Mexico. Look at how quickly it spread after detection in Italy, Iran, and South Korea, nations with first world medical care. There's a good chance it's already spreading in the U.S. - some 7000 people in California being monitored, about 1000 in WA, 80 in Long Island, NY - there's no way we've caught all of the local outbreaks. Not to mention the tests have an absurdly high false positive rate.
- dannyr 7y agoI don't. But do I have to assume that illegal immigrants are spreading the virus in the US?
- jerrysievert 7y ago> Do you honestly believe that the third world Mexican medical establishment is likely to detect cases early? that assumes that something that you refer to as "third world" has a large enough international (asian for the most part) traveling populace to bring the disease back before countries that have a much higher GDP and thus much higher number of traveling citizens. what you're saying simply doesn't add up.
- hombre_fatal 7y agoThis doesn't even make sense. You can simply fly from any infected area in the world right into San Francisco, and San Fransisco gets massive travel volume from these places. Why even bring up Mexico? Btw, Mexico has public/free hospitals unlike the USA. You can bet that flu-like symptoms and higher IMSS volume shows up in Mexican media just like backed up hospitals always get national attention. Not sure why you think USA is going to have such a better response to this either. In Mexico, people can at least go to the hospital to get checked, even private hospitals are cheap. In USA, people will just gamble to save the $100 checkup and go to work. I know I would.
- refurb 7y agoNot sure why you think USA is going to have such a better response to this either. Really? You can't see why the US might have a better response than Mexico?
- Simon_says 7y agoThere are zero confirmed cases in Mexico.