I should be in Puerta Vallata right now, - I'm not.  Last week amid media hysteria and founded or unfounded fear the event I was to attend was cancelled.  I don't blame the promoters of the event, in my opinion they made the only decision they could make.  I don't really blame anyone, and re-framed my dissappointment of what was to be a great networking opportunity capped off by some much needed R and R, and took advantage of a week home with nothing on my calendar.  

So why, last week at this time was the Swine Flu the only thing covered on the news?  And now, a mere week later, it's a non event?
No more people have died or are prediced to die than the ordinary flu.  Are we out of the woods or is this just a brief reprieve?  I don't have any of the anwers to these questions, but do have to wonder how much of the media reporting the past week was real and how much was manufactured?  And by whom?  Oh, I've got some conspiracy theory friends who have come up with what sound to me like farfetched explanations, but who knows? 

I have two very large development projects in Cabo San Lucas.  I wonder what long term effect this event will have on the tourist industry in Mexico.  Or will it be like many other things, Forgotten as fast as it spread.   The news I mean, not the flu.