Mexico City Earthquake Causes Citizens to Expect 'the Apocalypse'

Mexico is struggling right now, folks. As noted earlier today, the dreaded Swine Flu is causing U.S. officials to kindly nudge American citizens away from travel below the southern border. And an earthquake in Mexico City earlier today won't help things either.

The quake ripped through the city on Monday and registered a 5.7 on the Richter scale. But that pales in comparison to how the citizens of Mexico feel about the natural disaster, viewing it as the potentially penultimate sign that the Earth is about to explode. Or something.

"I'm scared," said Sarai Luna Pajas, a 22-year-old social services worker standing outside her office building moments after it hit. "We Mexicans are not used to living with so much fear, but all that is happening — the economic crisis, the illnesses and now this — it feels like the Apocalypse."

[...]"If [the world is coming to an end], it is God's plan," Gutierrez said, speaking over a green mask he wore to ward off swine flu.

So, yeah, spirits aren't so high in Mexico right now. The swine flu, the perceived crime rate, this giant earthquake, hot Satanic lava and brimstone spewing from a Mayan temple -- yeah, just not good.

Which is why I would like to emphasize what I said in an earlier post: GO TO MEXICO. DO IT. It's going to be insanely cheap right now, and it's not as if you have to parachute into a gaping chasm of pigs that fell in when the Earth ripped apart at its seams. You have plenty of higher end options that will leave you no less unprotected than having to sit at work with that jerkstore who won't stop sneezing and coughing all day.