This is life under quarantine

[nadinbrzezinski]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090428/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_swine_flu_shut_in;_ylt=AmNB17Q3AWqCaDbBb7.c0ARvaA8F

Mexico City shuts itself in amid swine flu fears


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By JULIE WATSON, Associated Press Writer – 6 mins ago
MEXICO CITY – Nine-year-old Cecilia Ines Lopez has been watching nine hours of television a day. Her 16-year-old aunt has spent so much time on Instant Messenger she complains she has nothing more to say.

For five long days, the only glimpse the girls have caught of their normally bustling neighborhood has been through the barred windows of their cramped cinderblock row house. Their parents — like many across Mexico City — grounded them when swine flu hit.

"We're like caged lions," Cecilia's grandmother, Constancia Sosa, said Tuesday in the family's tiny living room decorated with ornately carved wooden couches, religious statues, family photos and fake flowers.

"We sit in here all day, listen to the news about how bad things are. One more week of this and we're going to fall into a serious depression — or become hysterical."


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To read this about the city I grew up at... just WOW

La Merced... they are not kidding, even twenty years ago that was a place where people just jostled

But it just may stop this

[Ian David]

1. Republicans hate cities. n/t

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. How does this have to do with the RNC?

I am truly missing the connection

Perhaps I don't want it

[kestrel91316]

3. Humans should do this more often. We'd slow down the seasonal

flu outbreaks, too. Heaven knows how many lives could be saved.

But we all know it won't become commonplace.

[lunatica]

4. I grew up there too. I can't imagine it shut down.

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. Yesterday Rachel Madow showed downtown

and there was a measly pedestrian... that's it

I think it was Iturbide y Garibaldy, if memory serves

[lunatica]

6. Here are some photos of Mexico City

Garibaldi Square is #5. It is really weird

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/gallery?Site=C4&Date=20090425&Category=NEWS&ArtNo=904250803&Ref=PH&Params=Itemnr=5

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. Worst case, we are seeing our future

why I have mentioned to people, having food at home is not a bad idea

[TimesSquareCowboy]

8. I wonder if my local wine shop will still deliver.

Note to self: Stock up.

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. That was funny, thanks for the laugh

Yep, stock up

I did my byyearly run for canned goods, needed to, was just an excuse

[Hannah Bell]

10. all vital traffic shut down - except for the mariachi bands.