Re: [Marxism] World Health Organization: "What, me worry?"

[Jim Farmelant <farmelantj@xxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 19:07:26 -0400 "Joaquin Bustelo" <jbustelo@xxxxxxxxx>
writes:


> 
>         On that last point, the thing to note is that the severity 
> of the
> illness caused by this new viral strain is still unclear. The data 
> from
> Mexico is alarming: there have been more than a hundred deaths from 
> apparent
> respiratory infections out of less than 2,000 cases (though it is 
> reasonable
> to assume the actual number of cases is much higher, as of the 
> non-fatal
> cases, only the EXTREMELY severe among lower socio-economic strata 
> are
> likely to have been reported, along with, of course, a higher 
> proportion of
> the cases among the "comfortable classes" and the really rich.
> 

It seems to me that the WHO as well as health authorities
are gambling that the swine flu is not likely to be very
lethal in the US; that conditions (living and working
conditions) that are specific to Mexico (and probably
other poorer countries) are responsible for it being
lethal there.  In other words they are gambling that
the swine flu epidemic will turn out not to be such
a big deal as far as the US is concerned, regardless
of what the consequences might be for Mexico.


>
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