Posted on 10/24/2009 8:38:37 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Obama declares swine flu emergency
9 mins ago
WASHINGTON (AFP) – President Barack Obama has declared swine flu a "national emergency," the White House said Saturday, as the United States reels from millions of cases of infection and over 1,000 deaths.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
From CNN’s White House correspondent.
Emergency Declaration will:
Grant waivers to hospitals
Allows federal government to help states move around ventilators etc.
NOT in response to the current numbers but is a proactive decision, in case things should get worse.
Same here....waiting for next shoe to drop
(You’re young!)
I don’t remember anything but the hype.
No kidding. That's exactly what he did before. As long as the Republican senators held up the confirmation of Kathleen Sebelius, Killer Tiller's bosom body and abortionist extraordinaire, just about the last person in the world we need as Secretary of Health and Welfare, the Republicans were held responsible for the whole Mexican swine flu crisis. And the media eagerly joined the hunt. Republicans are stonewalling in the face of the Swine Flu threat!
When they saw the headlines blaming them for the flu epidemic, they caved in about three minutes, and rushed the confirmation through by a large margin, 65-31.
impulse=impose.
If as TigerLikesRooster questioned, this is used to ban public gatherings (tea parties), instead of due to an actual emergency... action should be taken... especially since no action was taken all this time (as broadcast), and the experts came out saying it didn’t act like they thought re: spread and was a milder form.
Back to tangent.
First off, timeline of the movement of pharma vaccine makers leaving the US, due to legal, environmental cases... which left us with one firm (hence extending the wait, as well as testing differences, FDA process/proofs given from firms, reasons for delay whether on their side or ours).
Remember also, at the start we were told this or that person died as a result of ‘other health conditions’, not solely this flu. We need those stories as well.
Documentation of defenses or medical checks re: travel done while it went up the chart to the pandemic level.
We also need a map of states/cities that went mandatory.
Stories of universities, schools where quar. was used (either in dorm room, or homes), and recoveries.
Also incidents at the pharma firms (and accidents), re: timelines, etc.
The notice from the firms re: multi-use and nasal content of live virus vs. other firms single-use packaged syringes.
Contents re: amounts of thimerisol/mercury remaining at end of process, list of possible side effects and the fact testing wasn’t done by most on the group they had more deaths (at the beginning, youth to 20 something), vs. pregnant women and the reversal (Florida, other states), reasoning on not giving the elderly the vaccine in that state (vs. others).
No Wiki links please. There are many timelines that have ‘interests’, but there has to be some that don’t.
Best to have coverage in case of adverse effects or unwarranted gov’t actions to look back on.
Tin foil hat off/
Interesting post by Rembrandt:
“I live in Sarasota, FL. Doctors here are being instructed (don’t know by what org’n) to report all flu cases as H1N1 cases. There has to be some flim-flammery going on with that.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2369775/posts?page=23#23
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/10/24/obama-declares-national-emergency-for-h1n1-virus/
Those requirements are contained in the Medicare, Medicaid, and state Children’s Health Insurance programs, and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act privacy rule.
Yes. 'Interesting' to say the least and is one way to put it.
Another way to put it is, 'Lock & Load' and 'Molon Labe'. I have a bad feeling that Rahm is thinking this is his 'Reichstag Fire'.
(I trust the Mafia more than this group of criminals)
I will bet that if there is actually an increase in the number of autism and autism spectrum disorder cases in excess of the number that would be revealed by increased screening or by looser definitions, it would codistribute geographically and temporally with the increase in childhood allergies and asthma, with increasing affluence (relative to typical living conditions over the past several centuries), and would be another manifestation of having too light an antigen challenge to the immature immune system. In other words, the more people start living in aseptic, dust-free environments, the more effed-up a growing percentage of the population will be.
I’m not sure we disagree...
It actually might be you who is stupid. I warned of the Mexican Flu months ago and suggested a complete shutdown of the US border with Mexico among other things. Nothing was done, and we had a jackass President preside over it and make it worse. Now look what we have.
“Two Purdue University math researchers have predicted the novel H1N1 flu will peak so early that planned vaccinations will not have a large effect on the number of people infected”
http://www.wlfi.com/dpp/news/local/local_wlfi_west_lafayette_math_model_h1n1_about_to_peak_20091021
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Unbelievable Facts - Strange Facts - Life or Death
A Matter of Life or Death
On average, 100 people choke to death every year on ball-point pens. And beware of toothpicks. They are the objects most often choked on by Americans.
You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
The odds of being killed by space debris are one in five billion.
You are more likely to be killed by a donkey than in a plane crash.
200 people a year die in avalanches.
A total of 55,700 Americans are injured each year by jewellery.
About 1000 people commit suicide on any one day.
Not only that, but I have been reading many firsthand reports at FR where a diagnosis of swine flu is being made -— WITHOUT testing.
How is swine flu to be distinguished from any garden-variety flu without testing?
Did I wake up in the Twilight Zone??? O my gosh.
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