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Posted on 04/29/2009 1:10:46 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo
Or let’s call it, “Chicago Flu.”
Please PLEASE don’t get me started on HIM, AND his predecessor AND his successor on this open borders mess and lack of control of our national security and soveriegnty.
Japan is in trouble, too, and they don't have much room to crow, what with an aging population, declining births and hollowing out. Being somewhat fatalistic pessimists, I think they see theirs as dying and they see ours as being corrupted and third-world-ized. It is sad, but this is the take I get from individual Japanese and I am hard pressed to take issue with them, even as a proud American.
Trust me, the Japanese (many I increasingly speak to but granted it has a bit of way to go) DO NOT trust him anymore and many have had the scales drop from their eyes once they saw his ho-hum reaction to an ICBM test being hurled across territorial Japan one month ago by deadly enemy North Korea, despite a US-Japan Mutual Defense Treaty.
That alone was Japan's leadership's and Japan's peoples' big wake up call to this Obama. This ostrich like approach to Mexiflu is icing on the cake.
They know now intellectually and instictively it is foolish to put any trust in the man. The Japanese have an uncanny ability to sense weakness and lack of leadership, and they disdain it.
He simply has no vision nor desire to confront uncomfortable but real situations. He is a Denialist, Class A, and he is going to end up getting a lot of people killed.
The Japanese aren’t stupid.
JAPAN going on even higher alert towards aircraft coming in from US or Mexico, or passengers from those places. All passengers will be individually screened. All of those today entering Japan were checked out for influenza. A few had fevers but checked out OK. Inside of craft will also be sprayed, etc. etc. etc. Japanese news now reporting the death of the Mexican visitor in the US as the first “US death” (they mean, first death in USA, not first death of American). Update.
So much for Obama improving our image in the world.
Paradox of Xenophobia.
-—”(most said that while they were shocked or shook up a bit by seeing the dramatic difference between Japan and American border/immigration authorities once they landed and personnel came on board a/c immediately denied disembarkment, most accepted it as necessary and said that in essence it actually gave them some sense of relief) showing a real gap between how Japan is handling the crisis and how Washington is ordering their local health and immigration offices.”
I’m pro-Japan, but in all fairness to the USA, Japan has so few flights arriving from Mexico, so it’s relatively easy for them to monitor the few new arrivals each day, whereas in there are thousands of people entering/leaving the USA from/to Mexico.
Monitoring at the level the Japanese do would be a daunting task.
I had no idea what it was, but it tasted as cold bilge water smells. 20 minutes later I was feeling fine.
>>Japanese love a good overreaction. Their prudence at the border is much better than Napolitano’s “meh, its already here”. But it is quite comical to watch the Japanese in the face of extremely unlikely disaster.<<
They face Earthquakes, Floods, Volcanoes, Tsunami’s, Hurricanes, and the occasional visit from Godzilla on a daily basis, they know a lot better how to take care of themselves and their country than we ever do.
The Japanese people don’t bitch after a Natural disaster that the government should have done more to hold their hands and coddled them. They just say “It couldn’t be helped” move on, rebuild and get on with their lives.
If they were like the people after Katrina, the Japanese would all be living in FEMA trailers.
I saw a program where they built this ginormous underwater lake that is empty most of the time to take in water from a river in case it floods. That is the sorta engineering we should be inspired by. And we can’t even build a wall across our borders. You can bet if Japan was sandwiched between the USA and Mexico they would have built a wall on either border that would have made the great wall of china look like a picket fence.
Ping (Thanks, DvdMom!)
If that’s how they see things, then I question whether or not they’re really thinking in the first place.
OLs (Japanese office ladies) could be the most blessed creatures on God's earth, for foreigners in Japanese companies, when some problem arose--there is often nothing they would not do; I would bet she ran to the pharmacy even--rather than walked, when you had that problem. I have seen this selflessness and concern and love many times in Japan. It is one virtue of Japan that not a few Japanese still retain.
RE: the cavalier attitude of US health and border officials “passively” monitoring ingress of persons from Mexico, the very country this threat has broken out in with high deaths; ii) no travel bans to/from Mexico or closing of the US border with Mexico for the security of the United States, iii) reactions of returning Japanese travelers (they are shown on camera) who are reporting that they were just waved through while transiting the US from Mexico (Atlanta, Los Angeles, other cities) but then dealt with strictly upon arriving in Tokyo, (most said that while they were shocked or shook up a bit by seeing the dramatic difference between Japan and American border/immigration authorities once they landed and personnel came on board a/c immediately denied disembarkment, most accepted it as necessary and said that in essence it actually gave them some sense of relief) showing a real gap between how Japan is handling the crisis and how Washington is ordering their local health and immigration offices.
This is clearly where the latter day, hyper PC, kumbaya, transnational progressive, mainstream American culture jumped the shark. After the jump comes the face plant. We are witnessing tragedy unfolding. Not just with this flu. The flu is only one of many leading indicators. This is but the beginning of sorrows.
Me too. I’ve got preps.
Mexico has many people who carry r1b genes. So too, the rest of the Americas, Western Europe, S. Africa, NZ, Australia. Now, look at an infection map. Death may yet come to places only recently infected. Mexico’s had this simmering under the surface for months.
If they do not stand up to power--despite their foolish electoral choices in the recent past, nothing will happen--and the USA is therefore heading quickly into becoming a disease infested Third-World shit dump. As it is, if popular opinion polls of Obama at high levels continue while he fiddles like a cult leader as his totalitarian minions pass out the koolaid to the mentally seduced, it says something intrinsically sad about modern-day USA and the ability of discernment on the part of the average person. Did it get dumbed down THAT BAD!? You cannot make this stuff up.
I often think, not necessarily out of some superior intellectual prowess, but just be instinct, that the Americans will honestly be the last ones to know (about the erosive loss of their country.)
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