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Napolitano declares public health emergency
The Hill ^

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.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: april2009flu; bho44; bhocdc; bhodhs; flu; influenza; janetnapolitano; mexicanflu; mexiflu; napolitano; outbreak; publichealth; swineflu
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To: Sub-Driver
Any chance we'll seal the border?

 

 

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261 posted on 04/26/2009 6:38:29 PM PDT by Redcloak ("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: floriduh voter
worst case scenario: Feds treat people, those people get sick and die. Feds say it was the flu.

Worst? Naw... take the vaccine, or we'll have to quarantine you and your family to the 'campus' we've set up for your kind. Now, depending on your 'profile' did you get the saline, or the virus?... and they won't even need to tattoo your wrist.

262 posted on 04/26/2009 6:45:42 PM PDT by glock rocks (Taglines? We don't need no steenkin taglines.)
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To: Sub-Driver

“Napolitano declares CYA Emergency”

As in Cover Your Jack-Ass


263 posted on 04/26/2009 7:07:27 PM PDT by eaglestar
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To: Sub-Driver

Is this the pretext for martial law? Is this the Reichstag fire Obama needs?


264 posted on 04/26/2009 7:22:51 PM PDT by Cacique (quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))
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To: magooey

HAlf Man!

Half Bear!

Half Pig!!

I see it, Mr Gore!


265 posted on 04/26/2009 7:33:55 PM PDT by RaceBannon (We have sown the wind, but we will reap the whirlwind. NObama. Not my president.)
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To: Sub-Driver

I hear the Mexican Swine Flu came across the Canadian border.


266 posted on 04/26/2009 8:48:56 PM PDT by americanophile
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To: Redcloak

*tumbleweeds blow and squash crickets*

*silence*


267 posted on 04/26/2009 8:50:00 PM PDT by modest proposal (We got short-changed.)
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To: Drill Thrawl

Those train cars are auto-carriers. They make for lousy people carriers. They are stacking up all over the place becuase cars are not selling, so they stack the cars they don’t need on sidings.
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268 posted on 04/26/2009 9:06:20 PM PDT by mojitojoe ( Idiots elected a Marxist ideologue with narcissistic personality disorder & America is dying.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Napolitano is a health emergency...she is so full of sh!t that it might explode on everybody and contaminate the earth!


269 posted on 04/26/2009 9:19:13 PM PDT by Stayfree (REWARD FOR OBAMA'S BIRTH CERTIFICATE.COM)
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To: Ancient Drive
Napolitano looks well.. stupid.

That's because she IS stupid.

270 posted on 04/26/2009 9:22:05 PM PDT by April Lexington (Study the constitution so you know what they are taking away!)
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To: floriduh voter
He should work weekends. It’s his first real job.

Obama must think he's Tiger Woods. After achieving success, its time for the good life. Unfortunately for Obama, Woods has worked for decades to be the best. Obama has never held a job! Obama is monkey.

271 posted on 04/26/2009 9:23:54 PM PDT by April Lexington (Study the constitution so you know what they are taking away!)
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To: eaglestar
“Napolitano declares CYA Emergency” As in Cover Your Jack-Ass

Now, if she could only get that nasty flu to infect Right Wing Radicals!

272 posted on 04/26/2009 9:25:37 PM PDT by April Lexington (Study the constitution so you know what they are taking away!)
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To: Sub-Driver
Look,t his isn't even flu season anymore. I think this whole thing is designed to take people's mind off the economy and Obama’s incredibly poor performance as POTUS. Its like the clowns that start fires so they can run in and save everyone. Hero complex at work.
273 posted on 04/26/2009 9:33:26 PM PDT by April Lexington (Study the constitution so you know what they are taking away!)
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To: agrace

Not to mention wondering if the vaccine is safe or tainted...

Yes, love those Steelers. My husband is from North of Pittsburgh.


274 posted on 04/26/2009 9:43:13 PM PDT by hsmomx3 (GO STEELERS!!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: Miss Didi
I repeat........ WHAT A FRIKKIN GEEK BOZO!!! WHAT A PANSY POS!!!
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275 posted on 04/26/2009 9:58:48 PM PDT by rcrngroup
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To: April Lexington

It is sort of telling Obama is driving around in golf carts after just visiting Mexico. If he is worried he is doing an Oscar-worthy performance of hiding it.

I find certain things about this story concerning. Particularly the virus having mixed and unnatural-seeming origins (avian-swine-human).

It is pretty weird. I would not worry until people in the West start dropping like flies despite modern medicine. I think if a big plague hit there would be no question about whether it was a plague or not.


276 posted on 04/26/2009 10:30:45 PM PDT by modest proposal (We got short-changed.)
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To: hsmomx3
And I would want to know exactly what they may be injecting everybody with. I am leary about vaccines.

It's going to be an Obama mind control agent for those who are among the 47% that didn't vote for him. Now we can all be slobbering, stupid, feeble-minded sheep.

277 posted on 04/26/2009 10:37:03 PM PDT by TheThinker (America doesn't have a president. It has a usurper.)
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To: Brilliant

What I would like to know is quite simple:Was this the missing virus from Fort Detrick,and is there something larger that we don’t know?It does make one a tad paranoid.


278 posted on 04/27/2009 6:01:38 AM PDT by Lycrecia
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To: Sub-Driver
"That press conference was awful..........they looked incompetent.."

It's difficult to conceal the truth.

279 posted on 04/27/2009 7:35:24 AM PDT by river rat (Semper Fi - You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: floriduh voter

I wouldn’t trust the feds to make safe toilet paper these days.


280 posted on 04/27/2009 8:12:29 AM PDT by modest proposal (We got short-changed.)
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