WORLD WIDE PANIC ATTACK!

I can't tell you how many people have called me warning me to not go to Ecuador!
"Don't get on airplanes or any form of public transportation".....Joe Biden, VP of the USA said this morning on The Today Show! What is the US press doing to us....making us a nation of whiners?

When I travel throughout the world....when there is a problem....it is always the people from the US that hunker down and stop visiting the wonderful places. They cancel their trips right and left and cause a general mess in the US travel industry. Even now....because of the panic, US cruise lines have cancelled stops in Mexican ports. The already reeling travel industry and yes the flailing airline industry is suffering in the wake of all these TV talking heads that spout gloom and doom daily!

STOP ALREADY!

Swine Flu, Bird Flu, outbreaks of Ebola in Africa, Aids in Africa, and kidnappings in Central America....what next?

I am tired of the US being the laughing stock of the world. It is no wonder we are dis-respected throughout! Not only are we brash and brag that we have "The biggest and the Best" here in the USA but we try to impose our values worldwide. We don't bother to learn foreign customs before traveling and God forbid we learn a foreign language to get along!

Wake up America...yes there is a flu out there....but the regular old flu (for which we have vaccines) kills many people each year. Would we even be giving the Swine Flu much thought if the talking heads on TV didn't say it was so?

So...as I prepare to get on the big metal cigar of an empty airplane for Quito, Ecuador, on Sunday....I will think of all those crazy folks who cancelled their trips and their summer plans to protect themselves from this "pandemic". Yes...I plan to wash my hands a lot...and I am even taking hand sanitizer (a small one like I always do). I'll be having a good time at my meeting...out of the blast of US TV sets and radios with their scary reports of world wide panic. Why can't we Americans just use our heads and think through this whole situation....have fun and just enjoy life?
Every day is a blessing and a new experience. What happens will happen here or there. So just enjoy yourselves and lets help stop this world panic attack! Tell our "talking heads"...ENOUGH AND STOP THIS!
Hope you are having fun too!