Posted on 04/25/2009 2:52:37 PM PDT by BP2
Top link now on Drudge- from article:
The first case was seen in Mexico on April 13. The outbreak coincided with the President Barack Obama’s trip to Mexico City on April 16. Obama was received at Mexico’s anthropology museum in Mexico City by Felipe Solis, a distinguished archeologist who died the following day from symptoms similar to flu, Reforma newspaper reported. The newspaper didn’t confirm if Solis had swine flu or not.
scenarios. N Korea launch. Deadly strain released and drifts down to earth. - Diseased host, (pirates) boards ship, contaminating crew. - Rainforest cleared in the tropics to make room and plant biofuel crops, unleashing a new virus that has remained dormant in the soil.
In just the few articles I’ve read about this — by saying this I admit I need more education on the facts to rule it in or out — but this does NOT sound like a NATURAL occurrence/outbreak/mutation of disease. Like whatever the mutation it happened too quickly, and it’s too “good” at its job, even though the mutation apparently happened SO recently...
Therefore, your worries that this may be a biological attack, I don’t think are unfounded at this point.
No reason to panic at this point, IMHO — one would think that most all the precautions we take to avoid transferring illness already in our daily lives (handwashing, keeping extra distance from those who are sick, good hygiene, etc...) should keep down the rate of infection. Granted, some people will be more prone to catching this than others - healthcare workers, the uneducated and poor, and yes, politicians who are traveling, and shaking hands all over the place.
Maybe some of these things won’t matter, but I’m feeling that unless this is a biological attack or ‘superbug’ created on purpose, the results on the general population may not be as dramatic as the 1913 flu outbreak (simply due to advances in medicine, and public health — sewage, hand-washing, antibiotics, medicines, etc...).
May God bless all those who are affected by this disease, and their loved ones, and may God be with the scientists who are probably working 24/7 to figure this out...
They’re already here. Sigh.
That’s TRUE! He was sick in Europe!
So, what’s your Zombie plan? ;)
We tried to warn people that PORK was bad!
I sit and the phone signal dies. pisses me off
Like an overdose of Spanish Fly? Sorry, could not resist.
Dude, that would make a great tagline.
Yep....lol.
On a serious note..where is the administration? Folks are starting to panic and they haven’t done squat! Obama must be hiding under his desk.
Oh wow, bet Obama’s shaking in his tennie’s. I would be.
Gets guns and ammo and run for the mountains.
Kinda the same thing, here.
<Yes, it does... if he and the supporting White House staff that went to Mexico City are carriers.
Man, what a movie this would be! Can you imagine the President and members of the cabinet carrying a deadly plague not only around the world, but to the ‘best and brightest’ in various fields as they meet them for photo ops, factory tours, etc?
Ooh, wait, how about a black man carrying a plague more likely to kill whites with resultant race wars between whites who think the new ‘messiah’ is out to kill them and blacks who want to rise up and make their own new world order. You could go all kinds of ways with this one. I need to call my agent!
Biden could name Hillary as VP.
It would be the natural choice.
20 more people added to the Arkanicide rolls today, how many more to come is the question.
Has the Anointed One actually changed water into swine?!?!?!
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