You can tell they are lying

Incubation period 24 to 48 hours?

Declaring a state of emergency is necessary to activate certain procedures and release govt. money, testing procedures and stockpiled antivirals. They made that clear during the press release. In my opinion, they are probably holding back information only until they have confirmed information, which is wise, and professionally appropriate. They will look really stupid if they run around spouting numbers and later have to say "oops, we were wrong, false alarm!"

When the reporter asked, How long is a marathom?", the guy did not answer 18-24 months. He started talking and did not answer the question.

Would you go on national TV, with a couple hundred million people watching and confirm that it will definately last 18-24 months, and stake your reputation and your profession on that? I just think that are only confirming what they KNOW. I know I would.

How long have we known about this? A nurse I know in MS was called into an emergency meeting about a week ago and they we told to fill out a large packet of material and she said they signed their life away.

Suzi1 by what the person in Mexico, unconfirmed source, said that this has been going on for 3 weeks.   If this person from Mexico is correct no wonder the nurse had to sign their life away...CDC was aware!

I know government they will not lie they just wait until "all the facts are in and confirmed and rechecked and confirmed again" by that time it will be too late for people to do much of anything.

I don't think they're gonna tell anyone to sockpile any thing. Because (if poeple listen anyway)its going to make people panic. And not because of the flu itself but because there will be more mandatory quarantines of folks like a family in Texas whose teenage son has a mild case of the swine flu but "the whole family is quarantined indefinitely" - cnn.com. Folks will further freak out once they see the government exercise all of the powers at their disposal because of the declared state of emergency.

Just heard an interview with a guy from WHO on the radio here in Australia.  He says they don't recommend wearing masks, and aren't too concerned about the spread of swine flu until they get further information.

I just read a post by another person on this board - somewhere and sorry I don't remember where. I think the poster's name if "medclinican" from West Va.

He has access to CNN reporter "Sanjay" tweeter messages. According to this reporter, people are beginning to drop their masks in Mexico City. I saw a video on CNN with Sanjay getting into a hospital to film. There was no crowd and it looked and sounded clean and calm. There were flu patients on the ward with their doors closed. The massive mess of the previous days appears to be slowing down some from the appearance Sanjay is giving today.

I do think it is getting a lot better.  Although we still will see a peak in the next 3 days, beyond that, everyone is so well informed, I think the buck stops there.  I will not take my  kids out this weekend to any public places, but I think next week things are back to usual.  next fall is another matter though!

This time I dont think they will tell anyone to stockpile  I think its because we cant do that without a huge effect on our economy .  One we would stop regular shopping shoes and stuff  furniture .  As we would only buy food and since that mostly imported now .