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?
Former Member
Definitely feels like an over-reaction. So far, more people are dying from regular seasonal flu than from swine flu. Additionally the WHO has found the swine flue strain to be more mild than the current seasonal flus in the wild. The only death in the U.S. was a mexican toddler who came over the border. The only deaths in Mexico were from individuals who don't experience the health system we have in the U.S.
www.who.int/.../index.htmlwww.who.int/.../index.html
There is no indication yet that the current strain presents a risk to young healthy people as the 1918 strain (see cytokine storm:
en.wikipedia.org/.../Cytokine_storm
Anyways, I hope the media can find something new to talk about so they can stop over-hyping this.
There is no hurricane at present for CNN's Anderson Cooper to be pummelled by, so they're settling for the insidious creatures that cannot be seen with the naked eye to scare the bejeebers out of us.
There is no hurricane at present for CNN's Anderson Cooper to be pummelled by, so they're settling for the insidious creatures that cannot be seen with the naked eye to scare the bejeebers out of us.
Peter,
I had those scared out of me years ago & don't have any left.
I just crossed the border. I went to Point Roberts Washington, no problem entering the USA. I went to the Post Office to mail out some parcels. I came back thru the Canadian border crossing 30 minutes later. They asked me if I had been to Texas, California or Mexico recently. I said yes to all three, about 2 months ago. They asked me if I had a cold or any sickness. I said no, they let me cross the border and back into Canada.
Yes, and add to that if my girls' school gets closed uugghhh! The double whammy! My husband is hoping the worst is over - he informed me that on the late evening news, they were showing the public how to wash their hands.
I'm sure he'd salivate at the chance of opening a Swine Flu virus novel at USMS Nationals.
..but it's all fine until the velociraptors start showing up in Jaked suits.
