Posts Tagged ‘swine flu’
Mexican Nearsourcing a bright spot in an otherwise dismal year.
Posted by: andy in About Us, Nearsourcing on December 11th, 2009
Check out this well-written article about Mexico’s rocky 2009. The flu, recession, drug wars, rogue neutrinos - it’s been a hell of year. Thankfully, one happy little corner of the economy happens to be where we’re camped.
Another industry that has thrived in Mexico despite the recession is software development. Anchored in the city of Guadalajara and surrounding state of Jalisco, Mexican software engineers both develop their own software and provide “nearshoring” code writing services to software companies in California and elsewhere. Jalisco boasts over 200 information technology companies, and national IT organizations are projecting 11% growth for the sector in 2009 at a time when most other industries are facing contraction for the year.
Idiots
Posted by: andy in Things That Interest on May 2nd, 2009
So, do you party?
I’ve held my tongue on this for a while but am I the only one who feels that “pandemic” thing is ridiculous?
Every year, the regular old flu kills 35,0oo people in the US and 500,000 worldwide. So far, the pig/bird/human flu has killed 1 person in the US and some number between 60 and 200 in Mexico (depending on who you want to believe). And for this, all businesses have been shuttered here (crippling an economy that wasn’t doing so well to begin with), the US is doing backflips trash talking Mexico, and, perhaps worst of all, everyone is walking around with those ridiculous surgical masks on. Come on people, pull your head out - are we that starved for drama?
And now that disaster is not panning out, we all seem a bit, well, disappointed. Check this story, “What we thought is that we would have an exponential growth in the number of persons with symptoms. But the information we have is that hasn’t occurred, and we now have a stabilized curve with no important growth” of confirmed cases, Mexico City’s mayor Marcelo Ebrard said declared Saturday.”
UPDATE: Also see this NYTIMES article. “Of 908 suspected cases that were tested, only 397 people turned out to have the virus, officially known as influenza A(H1N1), Mexican health officials reported on Friday. Of those, 17 people have died. ”