People in Mexico are e-mailing BBC news, saying situation is much worse than reported.

[dixiegrrrrl]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/talking_point/8018428.stm

[GCP]

1. Frightening stuff

This does not look at all good.

[Hanse]

2. Of course they are.

And people were twittering yesterday about nonsense involving Canada restricting all air traffic to Mexico, and DUers were making up shit about Donald Rumsfeld and secret government labs.

This is what happens every time there's an emergency. During Katrina it was looters shooting at helicopters and hordes of black men raping children at the Superdome.

None of it's worth believing. Wait until confirmation.

[brentspeak]

7. Exactly.

For all anyone knows, these Mexican email "reports" could just as easily be originating from a pizza-box-filled cubicle in Amsterdam.

[janx]

3. K&R

[FirstLight]

4. I am more inclined to believe the "on the ground" comments

These are un edited (no govt screening) and come from a variety of citizens, and the stories are similar enough to make a picture more clear...

this has potential for some serious damage IMO

[bkkyosemite]

5. From the link above:

"The official number of deaths is 20, nevertheless, the true number of victims are more than 200. I understand that we must avoid to panic, but telling the truth it might be better now to prevent and avoid more deaths."

I'm tired of being lied to.

[luvspeas]

6. This is the 5th time I've seen this posted on DU! So that makes it even MORE TRUE!!!!!

ooooooooooooooooooooooo!

[opihimoimoi]

8. Murphy & Murphy sez ya can keep those 4 horsemen back only so long...eventually, one or more

will break loose to harvest millions of lives....Pestilence and Famine are the 2 largest Horses....

Obama must find ways to contend seriesly....

[bkkyosemite]

9. I also thought could this be a out of the bottle diversion for the Cartels to get their business

done...you know one of those planes up in the air sprayed this stuff on the population. Wow an epidemic and those drugs are now coming over the border like crazy..

Okay I know a conspiracy but who knows. It seem suspicious to me that all of a sudden a three legged virus pops up on May 13th...just my opinion..

[Wednesdays]

11. I don't like the sound of this any more than you do, but let's get some facts first

before donning the aluminum helmet.

[WhiteTara]

12. you seem to have moved into

the future...May 13?

[bkkyosemite]

13. Ooops It must be the old age or haven't quite gotten out of my cocoon.. LOL..April 13th.. pardon me.

[WhiteTara]

14. hey great post number

hope that isn't prophetic! :evilgrin::rofl:

[bkkyosemite]

15. EWWW now you tell me...I hadn't noticed...

:yoiks:

[WhiteTara]

16. well you're beyond that now

:hug:

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. Well one comment struck me as funny

some folks have gone into self quarantine and others treat this as a joke

I know there are people in the middle, those who try to keep informed

But I could not help but think of DU