Posted on 04/30/2009 6:51:58 PM PDT by wrrock
As Obama touts the benefits of big government amidst pandemic fear, the government missed a clear and present opportunity to contain the virus.
The Obama administration says it is too late to close the borders. But you cannot say members of his administration were not warned.
A biosurveillance firm warned government officials at the federal level about a serious influenza outbreak in Mexico a full two weeks before the World Health Organization offered its first official warning about a public health emergency of global concern on April 24th.
On April 6th, analysts sent numerous alerts to authorities at the federal level of "atypical pneumonia and respiratory disease cases potentially related to the swine influenza."
This firm mines the Internet for chatter on social networking sites and web posts for information relating to unusual illnesses.
Rep. Norm Dicks, D-Wash., who talked with the CDC, the Department of Homeland Security and other agencies, said the federal government had made a mistake in not purchasing the company's program, especially in light of the flu outbreak.
Other people were not so kind... Read full article...
(Excerpt) Read more at butasforme.com ...
Is anyone surprised???
Did I miss this story in the NYT and Washington Post?
Not in the least, we have a government full of incompetant idiots, what do we expect?
A teleprompter reading idiot in the White House! Guess the teleprompter didn't tell him what to do about it!
Mayor Nagin writ large.
I want an investigation. A panel. A report.
They are all lying...Don’t believe a single word government says.
Take common sense precautions.
But, au contraire. In this administration, it's not an "opportunity" until it's a "crisis".
A teleprompter reading idiot in the White House! Guess the teleprompter didn’t tell him what to do about it!
Your comment is reminisced of the relationship Tom Hanks had with the soccer ball in the movie *Cast Away* Barry has a fond relationship with his dedicated teleprompter.
It’s not clear that earlier notice would have made any difference. They still haven’t done a damned thing.
Frankly, it’s too bad that this guy didn’t notify Drudge instead of the CDC. Maybe Drudge could have gotten the word out, and at least there would have been fewer students flying down to Mexico for spring break.
Frankly, I’m not sure whether Bush would have done anything to offend Mexico, but sure as hell Obama won’t. Besides, he needs another good crisis.
BINGO!!!!
A truth commission.
You are right. Unless his teleprompter tells him what to say, he just can’t say it. Now I hear his teleprompter won’t call the flu the “swine flu” any more!
flu virus ping
Swine Flu: Ill woman is in ICU in West GA hospital
http://www.wtvm.com/Global/story.asp?S=10279275
Thursday, the head of Georgia’s Division of Public Health says the CDC has confirmed the first case in the state, a 30-year-old woman from Kentucky who was hospitalized in the town of LaGrange while visiting west Georgia.
She’d been in Cancun, Mexico, earlier this month.
The woman is in the ICU at West GA Medical in LaGrange, GA showing modest signs and considered seriously ill.
Timeline:
She traveled from Kentucky to Georgia with her 5-year-old daughter by way of car.
Prior to her trip to Georgia she took a leisure trip to Cancun, Mexico with a travel companion from April 17- April 21.
She began to fell ill on April 18th, but she thought it was due to the sun.
April 23: She arrived in Atlanta, GA by way of car.
April 24: She went shopping in Atlanta, GA.
April 25: She went to a wedding rehearsal dinner in LaGrange, GA.
April 26: She attended a wedding and later that day went to the ER voluntarily with family to West Georgia Medical in LaGrange, GA. She was immediately isolated. Officials performed a rapid specimen test , which the CDC received on April 28.
The family and those in her close circle were given anti-viral medications as a precaution.
The CDC and the Georgia Division of Public Health are working together to notify those that were in contact with her at the wedding.
April 30: Confirmed 30 year-old woman who has swine flu is from Warren County, Kentucky.
Notice that in the case above the woman was ambulatory for 8 days, with symptoms, before she went to the hospital. She is now in an ICU. She is 30 years old.
This is the same pattern as reported in Mexico.
A Pakistani, among those killed by flu
Sunday, April 26, 2009
The INER reported 15 deaths from the epidemic in National Institute of Respiratory Diseases
A Pakistani was the first foreigner to have died in Mexico, the victim of swine influenza. To his family, a group of about eight people, samples were taken for analysis and were given treatment with the antiviral oseltamivir. Sources from the Ministry of Health confirmed the death of Pakistan, which is part of the 20 deceased persons to whom it was found that the contracted swine influenza.
According to data collected by El Universal, Pakistani, which is not provided the name, joined the National Institute of Respiratory Diseases (INER) on April 16.
The Health Department detected its first case of swine influenza and released three days before the April 17 first epidemiological alert for an outbreak of atypical seasonal influenza. The alien died on Sunday April 19. His relatives were summoned to proportional one days after the medication and prevent the spread of the virus. INER in the 15 patients died, one at 11:30 am yesterday by a virus whose name did not clarify the institute’s director, Edgar Mondragon Armijo.
Excerpted
http://pandemicinformationnews.blogspot.com/2009/04/pakistani-among-those-killed-by-flu.html
Of course not! Soon they will rename the seine flu, Jihad M1 flu.
“Of course not! Soon they will rename the swine flu, Jihad M1 flu.”
Probably! And to think so many folks just don’t want anything to do with swine/pigs! Little do they know that the water they drink is filtered through high quality sterile water filters made from swine/pig intestines!
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