Longhorn Aquatics Long Course Kick Off was scheduled for May 1 - 3, 2009
this email just arrived:
Long Course Kick Off Cancelled
Importance: High
Dear TXLA Swimmers and Parents,
The Long Course Kick Off meet, scheduled for this weekend has been cancelled due to the increasing incidence of the N1H1 Virus and its apparently elevated prevalence, especially in the San Antonio area where many of our swimmers are coming from. We are working on rescheduling sometime in June. We will let you know as plans firm up.
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USMS SCY Nats is coming up here's the comment from
From Dowain Wright, Meet Director and physician. :
At this time, there is no indication that the USMS National Short Course Championships will be adversely affected by the Swine Flu outbreak. We will continue to closely monitor the situation and keep everyone informed. It appears that all transmission of the virus in the US is the result of close and prolonged contact with an infected individual. Community wide spread by casual contact has not occurred. However, we request that any swimmer having a upper respiratory illness stay at home.
Sincerely,
Dowain Wright, MD, PhD
Meet Director, UMSM SC Nationals
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a friend of mine asked
If Dowain is up to date on California's Governator's proclamations?
At some point soon USMS Nationals Officials & USMS need to make an official call.
What should they do?
Are folks over reacting?
My understanding is that it was relatively mild because it emerged in the Northern Hemisphere at a time flu generally winds down. It then spread through the Southern Hemisphere, and came back the next "flu season" for us--generally the winter months--and really went to town, killing 50 million people worldwide.
Researchers think that there is a reservoir of ever mutating flu viruses in the tropics, most likely southeast Asia.
Anyhow, it is pretty spooky, I must say. Especially given how it gets healthy young adults the worst. Cemeteries from that era are pretty grim, with an awful lot of youngsters and 20 somethings represented disproportionately on the toombstones.
At least the sequence is a little off. Before, it was flu slaughter, first world war, great depression, second world war. Now it's great depression, flu slaughter lite, misc. wars, then who knows what's next...
My understanding is that it was relatively mild because it emerged in the Northern Hemisphere at a time flu generally winds down. It then spread through the Southern Hemisphere, and came back the next "flu season" for us--generally the winter months--and really went to town, killing 50 million people worldwide.
Researchers think that there is a reservoir of ever mutating flu viruses in the tropics, most likely southeast Asia.
Anyhow, it is pretty spooky, I must say. Especially given how it gets healthy young adults the worst. Cemeteries from that era are pretty grim, with an awful lot of youngsters and 20 somethings represented disproportionately on the toombstones.
At least the sequence is a little off. Before, it was flu slaughter, first world war, great depression, second world war. Now it's great depression, flu slaughter lite, misc. wars, then who knows what's next...
