Maybe they arent trying to cover it up. I suspect a lot of states are trying to calm people down.

that is a good explanation but it has 5 times less people than florida and twice as many suspected cases.

the numbers just appear odd to me.

i would think at least one other state with a greater population would be just as truthful with their numbers but u dont see that anywhere else. how can it just be iowa?

[edit on 30-4-2009 by elitegamer23]

My friend tried to tell me there were no cases in Oklahoma, today. I asked him if he honestly believed that, I think he does. Without telling him people started getting tested for this 4 days ago in Oklahoma that I know about alone. Oklahoma is one of the most corupt states as far as local government. You will hear about almost no cases there until the very end and it will still be exagerated. A lot of people in OK are going to die. The medical care there scares me worse than the medical condition.

[edit on 30-4-2009 by Memysabu]

awesome starting this thread for Iowa.
I hope it is the fact that our state government is being honest.
150 is a lot that just seemed to come out of no where.

I couldnt talk my wife out of going to work She works in a factory where people are close together. I let her know what she needs to do and I really think she will listen.

I will be waiting at the door to decontaminate her when she gets home!

if this is going from human to pig iowa is going to be a waste land of sickness.

wonder if this virus mutates when it passes from human to pig and back to human.

One reason could be Iowa has a large population of what they call snow birds. People that leave the state before winter hits in and return with the spring. Which many start coming back about Easter time.

The weather keeps people indoors up there also until it gets warm.

They have a large population of illegals up there. I believe if you search the threads you'll find one about using Iowa as a practice for fema camps by rounding up illegals and transporting them to and from these places.

You'll also find that Iowa was going to be the place where they were going to practice a mock gun handing over to ptb.

You'll also find that Iowa during the civil war had more soldiers per capata than anyother state and even more soldiers killed than any other state.

The government seems to like Iowa.

Most Iowans don't come into contact with the hogs. Most of the hogs in Iowa are raised in confinement buildings by big companies now days.

I would also suggest that Iowa's biggest cities all have colleges many of those kids go to Texas and Mexico for spring break.

As for honest government please those words don't go together...look at who Obama appointed as his agriculture secretary. The man wasn't even an Iowan by birth. I don't think he really new a pig from a cow when he was governor.

If the state of Iowa thought that it would effect the swine industry you'd see no numbers coming out of Iowa. They wouldn't know what to do if they didn't have a pork queen for the state fair because pig meant illness.

yeah i wish i could be a snowbird but work and bills kinda keeps me at home. i like the iowa winters also even though it was crazy cold this year.

supposedly the first case of swine flu in cali was a girl who was around pigs and nobody from mexico. maybe its more widespread in the swine population then we know.

with all the drugs we give pigs and the messing with the genes who knows where this thing really did start. the only thing i know is if it really is going from human to pig, eventually it will devastate iowa. ive seen many other countries do mass slaughter to their livestock to stop such things as madcow and id hate to see and smell such in our state.

its nice to hear from others in iowa. i think you are from the boring part of the state though
ha what am i saying, thats all of iowa.
peace

Well, in case no one knows yet, we are up to 36 cases. I don't know what that means or entails anymore, but there it is.