Posted on 04/27/2009 5:31:16 AM PDT by IbJensen
Edited on 04/27/2009 5:56:48 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
LUXEMBOURG - The European Union's health commissioner urged Europeans on Monday to postpone nonessential travel to the United States or Mexico due to swine flu.
EU Health Commissioner Andorra Vassiliou met with the EU foreign ministers on the subject as Spain reported the first confirmed case of swine flu in Europe. That was also the first swine flu case outside North America.
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She’s an idiot.
Apparently it will stop the Europeans.
Good advice. It's a pity our government here is the US isn't exercising that basic amount of common sense since any dangerous flu will spread many times faster here than in Europe. Travel to and from Mexico should have at least been significantly restricted until this flu has been studied for another week or so to understand the threat better.
Close the Border - by Federal Order.
DU your foot! Closing our southern border and evicting the illegal ‘back and forths’ would have prevented this outbreak.
I think there have been some on here who come over from DU and try to recruit voters for these third party candidates who don’t stand a snowball’s chance of going anywhere in an election except siphoning votes off the Republican Party. (I agree if the GOP isn’t soon returned to its conservative foundation, voting for ANYONE is soon going to lose any appeal at all for me.)
The relentless, rabid Bush bashing, etc. is all a part of the Democrat/Socialist plan to destroy the Republican Party.
Is this supposed to be a bad thing?
Don’t forget vitamin E...
Umm, yea, let's be "politically incorrect" and keep American citizens who have traveled to Mexico and other places on holiday, out.
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Hey folks...get a grip....traffic accidents account for 42000 deaths per year....that is 115 per day...
you didn’t answer my question. i love guys who make outlandish claims and then give you the old “talk to me in a few months” line.
You DO realize this came to the U.S. through a businessman traveling to Mexico on business, right? Are you proposing that no one ever be able to cross over into Mexico and come back regardless of the reason?
I have to say the Bush/Obama legacy because Obama is continuing the Bush policy.
Let me get this right. You’re blaming President Bush for the swine flu??? That’s ludicrous.
Go start a thread at DU. The Bush bashers there will be happy to indulge in your lunacy.
Nobody's in charge.
Obama has had a hard time finding someone who is an abortion enthusiast but not a tax cheat.
Me too because only trolls would blame one and not the other. Obama is destroying this country and even some conservatives can’t get over their BDS.
No wonder Obama is so successful at what he does, hypnosis on a mass scale seems to work with the weak minded.
Closing the borders long ago would have avoided this potential epidemic.
It's also a question of how much, or how widespread any dangerous, infectious disease might become in the US. Restricting travel now could definitely limit the number of US communities where this flu will be present until we understand how deadly it might be.
It this should prove to be an unusually deadly flu, those who refused to restrict travel will look like fools, and the blame game will be worse than for Katrina.
No it wouldn’t have.
I hope you were being sarcastic.
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