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US says not testing travelers from Mexico for flu
Reuters ^ | 4/26/09 | Reuters

Posted on 04/26/2009 1:22:28 PM PDT by Cyberrat

WASHINGTON, April 26 (Reuters) - The United States is not testing airplane travelers from Mexico for the swine flu virus that has heightened fears of a possible pandemic, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said on Sunday...

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; Mexico; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bhodhs; bhomexico; flu; influenza; janetnapolitano; mexicanflu; mexico; mexiflu; napolitano; pandemic; swine; swineflu; travelers
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To: Cyberrat

It’s OK! Mexico is checking passengers.


21 posted on 04/26/2009 1:45:00 PM PDT by wolfcreek ("unnamed "right-wing extremist")
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To: Cyberrat

This could be the begining of the end for the LUNATIC/MAD OBAMA/NAPOLITANO and Co

THE SWINE FLU GATE...


22 posted on 04/26/2009 1:45:44 PM PDT by Ulysse
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To: Yaelle

They’ll probably test Christians and Veterans for the flu instead.


23 posted on 04/26/2009 1:46:37 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: MamaDearest

We’re apparently in stage 7...NOTHING WE CAN DO WILL STOP IT!!!!!!!!!!


24 posted on 04/26/2009 1:47:59 PM PDT by wolfcreek ("unnamed "right-wing extremist")
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To: rbg81

Why would the people traveling from Mexico to the US be of any particular race?
Most people on flights from Mexico to the US, are from the US, not Mexico.

They are probably screening those who appear noticeably sick, but not the others. They are not even sure of the incubation period, so many who travel would by asymptomatic. There are much more effective uses of time.


25 posted on 04/26/2009 1:51:56 PM PDT by ga medic
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To: Cyberrat

This must be their “Zero Population” plan. Perhaps they can make Paul Erlich ‘right’ once in his life before he dies.


26 posted on 04/26/2009 1:58:18 PM PDT by Kent C
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To: rbg81

The ones who brought the flu into NY, were American travelers who went to Cancun on vacation.


27 posted on 04/26/2009 2:01:26 PM PDT by MyTwoCopperCoins (I don't have a license to kill; I have a learner's permit.)
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To: Cyberrat

Read this from the BBChttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/talking_point/8018428.stm


28 posted on 04/26/2009 2:02:01 PM PDT by cmsgop ( " C'mon, Stand Up Chuck")
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To: freeagle
"I’m not sure how they could implement a test. Aren’t there millions of travelers flying every day?"

Probably, but it is time to stop futzing around. How do we implement this?

1) ALL travel to Mexico is suspended. No exceptions.

2 ALL U.S. Citizens must return within seven days or they will not be allowed to return for six months.

2) ONLY U.S Citizens are allowed to re-enter from Mexico...period.

3) Those U.S Citizens who return are required to submit to testing and/or vaccination within seven days. If they are insured, then they are given priority status to visit their physicians. Those who are not insured are given priority status at all public hospitals throughout the country.

4) Those who do not comply are subject to fine or imprisonment.

Does this sound harsh? Yes. That's the idea. Are there flaws in this plan? Absolutely. I'm just a guy with a laptop, but at least I'm offering some ideas. If I were in charge, I would ask real experts to point out the flaws and refine the plan.

My point is this: We need to stop messing around and formulate policy. This is not a game.

29 posted on 04/26/2009 2:09:18 PM PDT by Cyberrat (Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither.)
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To: Cyberrat

Better to shut down most travel from Mexico now than shut down whole cities later. But these guys are MORONS. And Obama always votes “present.”


30 posted on 04/26/2009 2:15:55 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Cyberrat

Nahhh you wouldn’t want to upset the Mexicans now would ya?
Let em all in, even those with disease.


31 posted on 04/26/2009 2:17:39 PM PDT by Joe Boucher (yEP,i)
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To: Cyberrat
"Right now we don't think the facts warrant more active testing or screening of passengers coming in from Mexico"

Well, that's real bright.

It almost sounds like they WANT everyone to get infected. Sorry to get all tinfoil-hattish, but it's such a peculiar flu (swine/avian/human) that it sounds almost manufactured.

And such an abrupt onset. Could they have manufactured it, then dispersed it? They've done it before. They did something like this in San Francisco, in the 40's or 50's. They released something into the atmosphere. (Sorry to be so vague. It was before my time. I don't even know what keywords I would use to look it up. I just remember reading about it.)

The point is, they will use this flu epidemic to impose more regulations on us, and to force us to have inoculations, as they did in 1976 (which I don't remember). From the article: "Mass vaccinations started in October, but within weeks reports started coming in of people developing Guillain-Barré syndrome, a paralyzing nerve disease, right after taking the shot. Within two months, 500 people were affected, and more than 30 died."

32 posted on 04/26/2009 2:21:17 PM PDT by my_pointy_head_is_sharp (We're living in the Dark Ages.)
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To: conservative cat
Hmmm. A potential pandemic. Ilsa the Nazi she-dyke declares it a public health emergency but doesn't think it's worth tightening the border of origin over. Meanwhile, The Messiah strolls around a heavily-guarded air force base and diddles his (golf) balls, as though all is right with the world.

You know, I, too, might almost think this is following a sick, twisted script of some sort. Almost.


33 posted on 04/26/2009 2:23:20 PM PDT by Viking2002 (Thomas Paine on one shoulder, and St. Anger on the other.)
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To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp

It is often better for people to get infected from early generations of a new disease than later mutations.


34 posted on 04/26/2009 2:25:58 PM PDT by TaxRelief (Walmart: Keeping my family on-budget since 1993.)
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To: editor-surveyor

You’d better believe that at this very moment Rahm is scared to death that his Lord (Satan) may have already called him home (by exposing him to the deadly strain of man-bird-pig virus).


35 posted on 04/26/2009 2:32:15 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: MamaDearest
So, we've gone from Phase 1 a month ago to Phase 2 just three weeks back, phase 3 last week, phase 4 yesterday, and phase 5 today.

Pretty quick stuff eh?!

36 posted on 04/26/2009 2:33:57 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: conservative cat


In a striking moment of candor, Joe Biden tells us would-be president Obama will face “an international crisis within his first six months in power and he will need supporters to stand by him as he makes tough, and possibly unpopular, decisions,”


37 posted on 04/26/2009 2:36:25 PM PDT by Rastus (Jedi mind tricks would work on Obama.)
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To: Cyberrat

Madness indeed! All borders should be closed via national guard ON the border. No air travel between USA and Mexico for whatever time it takes to contain it. I doubt this will happen until some die in the USA and will then be too late. God help us.


38 posted on 04/26/2009 3:37:11 PM PDT by Faithfull
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To: Cyberrat

They don’t check much else either.


39 posted on 04/26/2009 3:47:31 PM PDT by enduserindy (I hope he proves us wrong. Really, I do.)
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To: Cyberrat
There are no time and resources available to locate plague infested Mexicans.
We must concentrate on tracking down and eliminating Republican voters and military veterans rightwing extremists.


40 posted on 04/26/2009 3:52:54 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.)
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