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Obama NewSpeak: Don't Call It "Swine Flu"
ConservativeXpress ^ | 4/29/09

Posted on 04/28/2009 10:06:00 PM PDT by DrGop0821

DHS Chair Janet Napolitano and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack took pains to avoid using "swine flu" or "pig flu" today, opting instead to call the virus by its given name "Obama's Flu"...er, H1N1.

Look. I don't care what they call it, but let's fix the problem before it becomes a worldwide pandemic!

You can put lipstick on a swine, but it's still killing people! Overseas Immunodeficiency Operation? What is it with these people?

U.S. officials want 'swine' out of flu name

What's in a name? U.S. pork producers are finding that the name of the virus spreading from Mexico is affecting their business, prompting U.S. officials to argue for changing the name from swine flu.

At a news briefing, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack took pains to repeatedly refer to the flu as the "H1N1 virus."

"This is not a food-borne illness, virus. It is not correct to refer to it as swine flu because really that's not what this is about," Vilsack said.

Israel has already rejected the name swine flu, and opted to call it "Mexico flu." Jewish dietary laws forbid eating pork.

The Paris-based World Organization for Animal Health also objected to the name, saying the virus contains avian and human components and no pig so far has been found ill with the disease.

And there is growing sentiment in the farm sector to call it the North American virus -- although disease expert Anthony Fauci told a Senate hearing the "swine flu" designation reflected scientific naming protocol.

For U.S. pork producers the swine flu name has hurt, forcing government officials into the position of stressing that American pork is safe to eat and that other countries should not ban imports.

Pork, soybean and corn prices have fallen in the last two days, "and if this continues, obviously you have significant potential, which is why it's important to get this right," Vilsack said.

At the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there was also talk of stripping the "swine" from swine flu, which CDC acting director Richard Besser said was leading to the misapprehension that people can catch the disease from pork.

"That's not helpful to pork producers. That's not helpful to people who eat pork. It's not helpful to people who are wondering, how can they get this infection," Besser told a briefing.


TOPICS: Government; Health/Medicine; Politics
KEYWORDS: chimeraflu; mexiflu; paranoia

1 posted on 04/28/2009 10:06:00 PM PDT by DrGop0821
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To: DrGop0821

Porcine health challenged!


2 posted on 04/28/2009 10:06:33 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Mr. Bernanke, have you started working on your book about the second GREATER depression?")
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To: DrGop0821

They don’t want to offend the muslims who get the ‘swine flu’. Get it?


3 posted on 04/28/2009 10:11:29 PM PDT by BigFinn (isaiah 32:8 But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand.)
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To: DrGop0821

Foreign Viral Contingency????


4 posted on 04/28/2009 10:13:15 PM PDT by jakerobins
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To: DrGop0821

If you don’t have the sense to know what swine flu means then you don’t deserve to purchase pork roast at $1.70 a lb.

Quite frankly call it what you would like. I am still eating sausage and ham.


5 posted on 04/28/2009 10:17:32 PM PDT by pennyfarmer (Shiite Muslim named Bob.)
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To: BigFinn
This was too cute not to post.

Swine Flu is Coming ---
Please avoid this type of behaviour



6 posted on 04/28/2009 10:18:48 PM PDT by BigFinn (isaiah 32:8 But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand.)
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To: BigFinn

I guess after the new name takes effect, we’ll be seeing it in those countries too.

They will never cop to it unless they change the name.


7 posted on 04/28/2009 10:19:25 PM PDT by Califreak (Obama is Swahili for "Death to America")
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To: DrGop0821

Could it be that I actually agree with something this administration has said?????!! Nah, not really. I do think that this should be called Mexico Flu or Mexiflu—I actually agree with the Israelis on this. Swine flu is way too simplistic given that it is a double swine+avian+human virus, the H1N1 name is too technical; Mexiflu is where it originated; like Spanish Flu, it fits. Just sayin....


8 posted on 04/28/2009 10:24:29 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 (Wonder if our founding fathers would even recognize the USA?!)
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To: bushwon; LibertyRocks

Chimera Flu sounds good to me.

Another poster mentioned it-maybe it was LibertyRocks?


9 posted on 04/28/2009 10:39:25 PM PDT by Califreak (Obama is Swahili for "Death to America")
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To: DrGop0821

Well, the truth is, it’s a “hybrid” flu, most likely the product of genetic engineering here in the U.S.
http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/influenza/panflu/news/jan1404hybrids.html

True swine flu doesn’t jump between swine and humans terribly well; this flu is a combo of 3 possibly 4 strains.


10 posted on 04/28/2009 10:49:16 PM PDT by glide625
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To: Califreak; Izzy_Box; bushwon

“Chimera Flu sounds good to me.
Another poster mentioned it-maybe it was LibertyRocks?”

Yep, probably! LOL

Chimera Flu is actually my daughter’s suggestion from the other night when she and I were discussing this. [My daughter is FReeper/Lurker Izzy_Box]


11 posted on 04/28/2009 11:33:19 PM PDT by LibertyRocks ( http://LibertyRocks.wordpress.com ~ ANTI-OBAMA STUFF : http://cafepress.com/NO_ObamaBiden08)
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To: DrGop0821; LucyT; Quix; Polarik; Shaun_MD; WestCoastGal; steve86; muawiyah; DoughtyOne; ...
[I've pinged a bunch of folks, FRiends, and some I've been conversing with on this topic, especially about the name things. I don't have a "list" put together or anything. :)]

PRAISE GOD! I've been praying, and complaining, and posting about this for like 2 days now! I had no idea people with some actual "pull" were agreeing! LOL BUT it's a GOOD thing that they are rejecting the "Swine Flu" moniker -- IMHO it's a VERY dangerous moniker for this. I'm not crazy about using the HN number because that would just get too confusing for the average person with all the different flu strains out there -- fine for scientists, not for the media except WITHIN an article or in explanations, IMHO.

Earlier this afternoon I was going to post a vanity speaking to this issue of calling it "Swine Flu". We already HAVE Swine Flu, this is a NEW FLU with totally different 'qualities', if you will. It is NOT genetically "SWINE" flu (something which is only transferred from infected animal to human, is no worse than a "human" flu, and can't be transferred from human-to-human).

I'm so happy/relieved right now... I hope people see why this is a GOOD thing regardless of who or why is stopping using the term, at this exact moment.

I don't think this is a case of "NEWSPEAK" at ALL, personally. If there's one thing they could do RIGHT it would be to give this NEW virus a NEW Name.

I personally like my daughter Izzy_Box's name for this virus -- "Chimera Flu" due to the combination of 2 swine flus, 1 avian flu, and 1 human flu making up the genetic "recombination" of this new virus.

My other favorite suggestion (especially for South Park Fans out there) ManBirdPig Flu

As one FReeper said, usually these things are named after where they are discovered, but "Mexican Swine Flu, or Mexiflu" probably wouldn't be considered 'politically correct'.
12 posted on 04/28/2009 11:59:21 PM PDT by LibertyRocks ( http://LibertyRocks.wordpress.com ~ ANTI-OBAMA STUFF : http://cafepress.com/NO_ObamaBiden08)
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To: DrGop0821
OK! Let's call it:

THE OTHER WHITE MEAT COUGH, FEVER AND SNIFFLE DISEASE!

Or a shortened version:

THE OTHER WHITE MEAT DISEASE!

13 posted on 04/29/2009 2:07:29 AM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (I'll miss President Bush greatly! Palin in 2012!)
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To: DrGop0821

Husse1N-1st flu fits nicely.


14 posted on 04/29/2009 2:23:55 AM PDT by combat_boots (When the government controls the captial, all that is left is tyranny. Tagline by Redwarning.)
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To: bushwon

I’m calling it Manbirdpig.


15 posted on 04/29/2009 3:35:53 AM PDT by ichabod1 (I am rolling over in my grave and I am not even dead yet (GOP Poet))
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To: LibertyRocks

Yeah, “mexican” is already far too close to being an epithet.


16 posted on 04/29/2009 3:37:45 AM PDT by ichabod1 (I am rolling over in my grave and I am not even dead yet (GOP Poet))
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To: ichabod1

Cerdo flu


17 posted on 04/29/2009 3:47:23 AM PDT by maggief
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To: LibertyRocks

I’ve already volunteered to step up and double my pork intake. Although, I do agree with the point that swine flu lends the thought of it being a food born illness, and it is not. Good thing is, more pork for me.


18 posted on 04/29/2009 5:19:30 AM PDT by Calpernia (DefendOurFreedoms.Org)
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To: LibertyRocks

AMEN! AMEN! THX.


19 posted on 04/29/2009 6:52:44 AM PDT by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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