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
We have had very bad scares in the past. We had the scare in 1950's Polio. We never wore goggles and the swim pools had the chlorine so high your eyes burned for weeks. Several swimmers I knew came down with it. George Bevan was one of them. He later became a world champion marathon swimmer. The clorine readings in the pool 3ppm it was like swimming in bleach. The pool dressing rooms were cleaned with almost straight bleach. If your cloths got the least bit damp by touching anything they had bleach streaks on them.
At its peak in the 1940s and 1950s, polio would paralyze or kill over half a million people worldwide every year
USMS does not fear the aporkalypse... they sent out an email today basically saying the only way the meet wouldn't happen is if the feds ordered it not to happen which is pretty unlikely.
Dear U.S. Masters Swimming membership,
In response to concerns regarding the swine flu, I would like to confirm to you that we are in full operation mode to host the 2009 U.S. Masters Swimming Short Course National Championship next weekend. We are monitoring federal and state authorities guidelines, warnings and protocol. In the event the authorities mandate or strongly recommend the cancellation of outdoor sporting events, we will follow suit and cancel the championship event. If authorities do not mandate the cancellation of outdoor sporting events, we will host the championship event as planned.
Should the event be canceled because of federal or state mandate, we will advise accordingly.
Thank you, and see you next week,
Rob Butcher
Executive Director
If I am remembering correctly the 1918 pandemic was just the beginning. The flu that occurred during that year was mild, just as this one appears to be. But, during it the time it spread it mutated and produced the deadly strain with most of its victums dying in 1919... maybe I have the two years wrong... it began in 1917 and the deadly strain appeared in 1918. The point is, it was mild to begin with and mutated to become deadly.
That is what the hoopla is about. If we can some how limit the spread at this point in time we might be able to prevent it from mutating into a deadly strain.
Lainey
i believe this is also true for 60-64 men especially breaststrokers.If they are coming from close to Mexico,say any where in the SPMA area they are putting us all at risk and should definitely stay home!!
Before we go comparing this to the 1918 pandemic, oops, too late.
Remember that the news conduits do not make any money selling good health, prosperity or harmony. Therefore, we will not hear or read about anything harboring those traits. The only newsman who ever spent time on good news is dead. Long live Paul Harvey.
All of the 55-59 age group men should, for safety's sake, stay home this coming week and not tempt fate. I think that was in the governator's proclamation. You could look it up.:bed:
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...
Before we go comparing this to the 1918 pandemic, oops, too late.
Remember that the news conduits do not make any money selling good health, prosperity or harmony. Therefore, we will not hear or read about anything harboring those traits. The only newsman who ever spent time on good news is dead. Long live Paul Harvey.
All of the 55-59 age group men should, for safety's sake, stay home this coming week and not tempt fate. I think that was in the governator's proclamation. You could look it up.:bed:
I think I read somewhere that the west coast strain is particularly aggressive with men ages 55-59. It is recommended that such people avoid spending multiple hours in an enclosed environment (such as an airplane or automobile) until after May 10.
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...
Next would be your video domination of the blog board Jimby!
