Posted on 04/26/2009 10:25:26 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Napolitano declares public health emergency @ 1:01 pm by Eric Zimmermann
The United States will declare the swine flu outbreak a public health emergency, Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano said today.
Speaking at a White House press briefing, Napolitano said the declaration is not as severe it sounds.
"It allows us to free up state and local resources" that otherwise would not be available, Napolitano said.
The declaration does not necessarily convey the authority to initiate quarantines.
"We're nowhere near that kind of decision," Napolitano said.
Also at the briefing, the Director of the Center for Disease Control, Richard Besser, warned that there will likely be more cases of the swine flu detected in the U.S., adding those cases will grow more severe.
She was so determined to get rubbers distributed to the poor and uneducated that she did not want to stop a shipment that was found to be defective from being foisted on future planned parenthood patients.
it has the potential to be a threat. Just something to keep your eye on.
It’s nacho place to name it.
Youse.
Republicans will be blamed for holding up her HHS nomination- probably next week.
R’s are too stupid to see it coming or fight back.
I’m trying to figure out if this is an over reaction or a red flag.
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Me too.
I am so ready to start calling him the “Boy President.” Will someone please tell me why I can’t do that?
OMG! What a sissy looking man.
Maybe this is all an end run by Bambi and his team of Larry, Moe and Curly. Just not sure what he is going to try and blind side us with.
All I know is he is never around..I really don’t think him and his family live in the white house I think they just have their Wednesday night parties there..I think he lives on “Air Force One”
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It’s the only place he can be assured of privacy for alone time with Reggie Love.
You just can’t make this stuff up can you. Honestly, the people the left admire, are so flawed, even a child could see it.
NAPOLITANO SAYS USA SHOULD SHOULD PREPARE FOR NEW FLU OUTBREAK SOON EVEN IF THIS ONE FIZZLES OUT...
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Create a crisis, get socialized medicine passed. These people are as cunning and crooked as they come. I am convinced that eventually they will all have to be thrown out of DC or this country is history.
New swine flu likely widespread...
JANET: EVENTS DO NOT WARRANT TESTING OF PLANE PASSENGERS FROM MEXICO...
WHO: Swine flu could mutate to ‘more dangerous’ strain...
JANET: EVENTS DO NOT WARRANT TESTING OF PLANE PASSENGERS FROM MEXICO...
CLOSE TO 1,300 SUSPECTED CASES...
JANET: EVENTS DO NOT WARRANT TESTING OF PLANE PASSENGERS FROM MEXICO...
We must pass government run healthcare NOW! It’s the only way we can be saved.
Just saying.
That’s what I’m thinking. Manufacture a crisis to get their nationalized healthcare passed, get more control over us. They’re making me completely paranoid. Got an email from someone the other day about secret supplies of either a vaccine or antigen being transported around the country in Raymour and Flanagan trucks. Thought it was tinfoil hat stuff, but who knows, maybe they’re up to something. Don’t trust them one inch.
You’re all missing the point. Obama used the “financial crisis” to seize control of the economy. Now he is using the “health crisis” to begin nationalizing healthcare. Look for word to come that the current system of private healthcare is “failing to stem the health crisis.”
LOL! I forgot to mention that she likes Eric Clapner.
I thought the acting director of the CDC, Dr. Richard Besser, acquitted himself very well.
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