Posted on 04/27/2009 7:04:17 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo
Original Title:
豚インフルエンザで渡航規制相次ぐ、米国も要警戒
Upshot: NEC, NTT Data, Hitachi, etc. ordering employees not to go to Mexico, and report any flu if arriving back in Japan immediately as well as to not come into work. What is questionable is that they are ordering family employees back from Mexico to Japan (what if they themselves already have the flu?) Reports also said Japanese people should take care if considering any kind of travel to the UNITED STATES.
(FR Link to original article in Japanese)
EU already urged people to delay non-essential travel to USA it seems--but that is being criticized in some quarters as overreaction.
Meanwhile in Singapore, airports are on full alert and guard (as per photo below of thermal sensory equipment).
Additional photo in Asia:
The Japanese don’t mess around.
I just read the Straits Times daily (online) out of Singapore this morning. Those folks down there aint fiddling around.
Meanwhile I saw this photo of all these people lined up on foot at Juarez or Tijuana or whatever, streaming into the USA. It was taken yesterday. What do they give these people, the quick eye/once over?
Hearing a US bureaucrat explain their screeing processes as US ports of entry was, from an Asian perspective, shocking to say the least. The words just dripped with "political correctness", at least the words I heard.
It’s not surprising. The Obama regime has handled this with total incompetence—whether deliberately or stupidly, I don’t know. I
said yesterday that it’s predicatable that we’ll lose MORE business when tourists cease coming here and businesses in our cities shut down and much trade with Europe and the Far East is cut off than we possibly could lose by closing the Mexican border.
Politically correct insanity. Wouldn’t want to offend those illegal Mexican voters or their moonbat supporters.
The U.S. doesn’t seem committed to controlling the spread, so I think they are wise to limit travel to the U.S. until they see how this thing shakes out.
0bama be prez. All is cool. Worry not. 0be knows and will take care of you.
Just wow!
It is also saddening to hear "Mexico" and "USA" used so much interchangeably in the same Japanese sentence on the news in Japan. But, with the US borders as blurred as they are nowadays, (here is our wondering North American Union), viewed from an outside, foreign perspective, it is all kind of fused together now, with vast sections of the US Southwest already fully third word and virtually indistinguishable from Mexico. Wonderful. Just wonderful.
When push comes to shove, the Japnese have a way of cutting through all the current socially mandated Doublethink and Doublespeak and taking the most direct and effective action.
My nomination for 'dumbest statement of the day' goes to Janet Napolitano:
"We're already doing passive surveillance at the border," Napolitano said. "You would close the border if you thought you could contain the spread of disease, but the disease is already in a number of U.S. states." [emphasis added]Apparently, Janet, that passive surveillance didn't work so well, if the disease is already in a number of U.S. states.
Political correctness is a complete anathema to common sense, and in fact, corrodes and eventually destroys it.
It is the descendent of liberalism, which is itself, a morally and psychologically disordered disease and could end up killing vast amounts of people, just as they refuse to profile radical Islamists.
“The U.S. doesn’t seem committed to controlling the spread,”
Other nations are REACTING, while Obama’s handlers are afraid of losing the Hispanic Vote....
“No cause for concern... NOW WATCH THIS DRIVE!”
WOULD NOT BE HEARD IN A MILLION YEARS HERE IN JAPAN. Somebody would get a little taste of 大刀刀 over such abject bureaucratic incompetence.
Our government reaction is straight out of World War Z by Max Brooks.
From an epidemiological standpoint, wouldn’t it be the height of foolishness to order your expatriates to come home from an infection zone? That is the surest way to get the infection introduced to your population. I should think they would be told to stay in Mexico (or the US) until the storm passes.
Not sure the storm WILL pass.
The best solution would be to bring people home, wearing masks on the planes, and then to isolate them until they have passed the incubation period or until they get the flu and recover.
That would be a real nuisance for those involved, but better than to risk bringing the plague into your country.
Mexicans with the flu, then stampeding up (thanks to open borders) to the USA (even if they have to die in the desert) to make an attempt to get treatment from US facilities, Mexican ones being swamped themselves. They might not make it to the USA completely, but they certainly could pass it to healthier illegals who in turn could pass it further, up the chain.
I posed this question earlier. Yes.
Bump!
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