Been travelling in Guatemala for some weeks now and the place seems empty!! Where is everybody? Thinking of comming to Caye Caulker but first want to know if there is any liveliness on the island. Any people around? Restaurants and bars empty at night??
I'm many miles away and just guessing, but I would say that folks are not traveling or going out with the terrible and rampant SWINE FLU (!) going around...
Saw an interesting stat the other day. The ordinary flu kills more than 30,000 just in the US alone each year. Swine flu? 56 worldwide. Bird flu? 79 worldwide in the years since the pandemic hit us.
Media euphoria about a new panic? Priceless. Thankfully the mortality rate among the media will be 100%. Someday.
I hope that someday we can put aside our fears and prejudices and just laugh at people.