Great. Now I can't concentrate

[guanin]

So the flu thing is bugging me now, but more because it's bugging everyone else and when people around me start to freak out, I freak out even if I was perfectly calm about it a second ago, like during the last hurricane in PR when my stepmother had a total freakout. Yes, I just got back from Mexico. No, I don’t have the flu. It's been two weeks. The incubation period is far smaller than that. Not that people at uni have been asking about it, thankfully.

But you know what really pisses me off bugs me? That as always with all these illnesses, it's the people in third world countries who are dying while the ones in the first world are recuperating, showing that they can clearly deal with the situation on an acceptable level, but somehow because of red tape, I don't what international bullshit, they don't mobilize and help out the third world nations to get the people the treatment they need to not die Puerto Rico might be full of dengue and the government is always warning against it, but we don't have people routinely dying from it. And when someone does, not only does it make the news, but some irregularity in their health care gets blamed for it. Yet this is a fatal illness in central America. Which I'm still shocked by, though why do I bother by this point?

So not only is my country (and especially the region my family is from) overrun by drug dealers shooting in the streets and threatening people with businesses, kidnappers who don't even care if the person has any money or not, not that it matters because my aunt did not need to have her nephew killed, but now we're ground zero for a potential worldwide epidemic. Great. Oh, and there was an earthquake this morning. Whoop dee fucking doo.

I can't even enjoy the sunshine that just crept through the clouds. I'm too annoyed. I'm just going to talk to dad tonight and let his natural calmness cool me down.

It's 7:42 and I haven't done jack. Shit.

Comments

[rampant-chaos8.livejournal.com]

I can't concentrate either, as I keep refreshing the WHO website.

Poor Mexico can't catch a break lately :( I hope your family is okay.

[guanin.livejournal.com]

My self defense mechanism with these things is usually don't pay attention and it'll go away, cause otherwise I'm worrying, which is pointless because I can't do a damn thing about it. But Mexico? We cannot take any more crazy shit. I'm sure my family is fine, but... yeah.

[fleur-eternelle.livejournal.com]

*hugs you*

[guanin.livejournal.com]

*hugs back* Thanks.

[ti-ana.livejournal.com]

The US declared state of emergency so that they could break out like a 12 million supply of medicine for this flu which nobody has died from in the US. What annoys me is, if we clearly don't need the medicine here, and especially if they're so concerned with the outbreak, you'd think they'd offer some of that to Mexico to help contain it? Unless there's some bureaucratic bullshit that I'm missing. It's so stupid.

So yeah, I definitely feel your pain. Sucks that so many people keep dying from a disease that, especially in this century with all modern medicine advances, should not be fatal.

[avaserenity.livejournal.com]

But you know what really pisses me off bugs me? That as always with all these illnesses, it's the people in third world countries who are dying while the ones in the first world are recuperating, showing that they can clearly deal with the situation on an acceptable level, but somehow because of red tape, I don't what international bullshit, they don't mobilize and help out the third world nations to get the people the treatment they need to not die Puerto Rico might be full of dengue and the government is always warning against it, but we don't have people routinely dying from it. And when someone does, not only does it make the news, but some irregularity in their health care gets blamed for it. Yet this is a fatal illness in central America. Which I'm still shocked by, though why do I bother by this point?

My coworker and I were discussing this earlier today. I live in America and this country barely takes care of it's own sick people unless they have money so not helping out another country unless they have something to gain is not surprising. And what is even worse is that we have such a surplus of the vaccine that we should be giving it away.

[guanin.livejournal.com]

You'd hope, but the damn pharmaceutical companies would no doubt want to get some money out of it. We can't be helping people out of the kindness of our hearts, now can we?

It depresses me every time I hear of some outbreak that we could have easily dealt with in PR even with out lackluster health care system. Which now looks amazing by comparison.

[guanin.livejournal.com]

True. The US only looks after its rich people, who are the ones who control everything, so why should I be surprised? *is bitter* I had to pay my doctor fees in Mexico out of my own pocket because I didn't have insurance and it scared me to think of someone who needed a doctor but couldn't afford even the $150 I paid.

[drakochi.livejournal.com]

I heard on TV about the flu and recalled that you and your classmates went to Mexico. Good to know that you are feeling okay and that you are not sick.

Since, I do not really know how the health system works in America, I will not comment on that. Here in Canada we have medic care, so most of the basic services are free. Like going to a clinic for a complete health exam doesn't cost a cent... unless the person goes in a private clinic.

Speaking of Canada, I wonder if they are helping Mexico. *sigh* I need to watch the NEWS more often...

[guanin.livejournal.com]

The flu madness seems to have started on the day I left, actually, so I barely escaped. Another of my professors also just came back from Mexico (2 weeks ago, too) and we both jokingly assuring people at class today that we're not going to infect the whole population.

Oh Canada. I wish we had your health care system. Unfortunately, the UD is one of those places where your worth is equivalent to the size of your banck account. So if you have lots of money, you get shiny things. If you're poor, you get screwed.

I have no idea. I don't have time to follow all the news, though at least this finally has me reading the news at all.