[1rudeboy]

Pandemics are small in number, thank God. You could build a 20-foot wall, and a moat filled with alligators, and you won't stop them.

Which is what I find disturbing about the argument that illegal immigration is to blame. Sure it is, in some cases, but not in others . . . so is someone truly concerned about health risk, or illegal immigration? And if someone engages in that argument (and including legal immigration), how is it different from a lib taking the opportunity to scream, "ban guns," whenever there is a crime?

I don't think that even some opponents of illegal immigration (and I oppose illegal immigration) understand that they are hurting the cause.

Give it another couple months, and we'll get a "bubonic plague reported in Arizona" thread, with people blaming it on everything but where it originates, mouse crap.

[5th MEB]

Bubonic plague can only be contracted from the bite of an infected flea, pneumonic plague is air-born from the coughs and sneezes of the infected.

[Little Ray]

Good point.
Except that I think bubonic plague is rat fleas. Mouse poop is Hanta Virus.