Swine flu epidemic in ukraine
Posted on Friday, November 20, 2009 in General adventures, Odessa, Ukraine
For those of you that haven’t been watching the news, the last month or so the local scene in Ukraine has been like something out of a zombie movie or something.
With swine flu being declared an official pandemic, Ukrainians have been flung into a state of frenzied hysteria not unlike our Y2K(a total let-down). People are buying gobs of medicine off the shelves and take to the streets wearing gauze masks apparently to show their moral determination not to get swine flu. Even the local relief society has gotten together and sewed masks for everyone!
It’s a strange day when you order a happy meal from an entire crew of masked employees.
JB
Wow! That is crazy nuts! We have seen a few official cases of the H1N1 at work, but nothing very serious. Our exposure level is pretty insignificant right now even though the government has been extremly slow getting vaccinations out to people in at risk groups. BTW have you heard that the pork lobbiest have requested the “swine flu” be called more correctly “H1N1″ so as not to affect pork sales.
Don’t you miss the good ‘ol USA?