Economic health
When Mexico experienced an outbreak of flu in the spring of 2012 …
… much of the country came to a screeching halt. For a supposedly disorganized, “third world” country, closing down one of the world’s largest cities (and the commercial center of the world’s 10th largest economy) was not something undertaken lightly. Being a “backwards” nation, Mexico records all flu deaths, whereas in the “advanced” United States, only the deaths of children from the flu are reported to national health authorities, so the actual number of flu deaths — which are most likely in not children, and not the elderly, but in young men — in the United States hasn’t been, and probably won’t be, tallied.
While the reaction to the flu epidemic here was probably “overkill”, I guess the difference between a “first world” and “third world” country is this — people before profits.
mexfiles.net 