Posted on 04/26/2009 2:06:45 PM PDT by Nachum
Edited on 04/26/2009 2:07:44 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. officials will begin asking travelers about illness if they're entering the country from areas with confirmed swine flu.
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I ran into something like that a few years ago when I tried to renew my driver’s license. I had a speeding ticket from years before that - in Ohio, in fact - and because of that I couldn’t renew. It was a Catch-22 type of situation. I was out of state so I had to have some different type of insurance that I couldn’t get because I lived out of state. And all this was because of a national drivers database created after 9/11. It was supposed to keep us safer, I guess, but as far as I can see the only outcome is that legal U.S. drivers are getting caught in the machinery, like I did.
After all this time, we’re still now serious about homeland security. But watch how the obama crew turns it around to make even more rules and regulations for the law abiders to follow.
I’m not sure if we do. Off to the locale boards to check. :)
Swine flu and Smithfield factory hog farms:
http://www.grist.org/article/2009-04-25-swine-flu-smithfield
Visitor *coff-coff* Nada...!
There is a freeper board for Mexico, though very inactive. Gulfbreeze is a freeper who appears to live there. Perhaps they can give us an update.
That’s too bad. Securing the borders from the wrong people.
If this becomes a serious epidemic, or pandemic, the hospitals in the border region will be flooded with illegals crossing the border for treatment in US emergency rooms.
Count on it.
if they’re entering the country AT LEGAL CHECKPOINTS from areas with confirmed swine flu
CORRECTED, thanks.
Gee, what expediency.
Guess they were all playing golf.
what took them so long? :)
WHAT A JOKE..HOW DOES ONE KNOW IF THEY HAVE THE FLU ???? AND WHOS ASKING THE ILLEGALS????
What a bunch of retards!
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that the symptoms and transmission of the swine flu from human to human is much like seasonal flu, commonly fever, lethargy, lack of appetite and coughing. Some people with swine flu also have reported runny nose, sore throat, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea.[14] It is believed to be spread between humans through coughing or sneezing of infected people and touching something with the virus on it and then touching their own nose or mouth.[15] The swine flu in humans is most contagious during the first five days of the illness although some people, most commonly children, can remain contagious for up to ten days. Diagnosis can be made by sending a specimen, collected during the first five days, to the CDC for analysis.[16]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swine_flu
Everything you have posted is 100 percent correct. What I don’t understand is why healthier people’s immune systems overreact and people over 50 do not, for example. This is the mystery to me.
Gee.......get asked if you have flu symptoms.
If you say yes, you get quarantined to die.
If you say no, you can go home to die.
Man, I wonder which one sick people will pick!
what an idiotic idea. Just shut down the border.......no boat, air or car travel to and from the country.
So what? It’s as much the pourous border as the legal entrants I am worried about.
One infected Illegal in a group of several that are U.S. bound and are traveling in close quarters for several days in a group, a truck or a van will get all of them infected, either openly or as carriers of the disease. They will in turn interact with hundreds more and there you go: It will likely spread like wildfire through the Latino communities and from there into the general public. Why else do you think that they were so quick to state that this outbreak is all but uncontrollable?
Fortunately, with the very weak economy, the legal and illegal border traffic is down a bit so that may help somewhat.
The Obama crew thinks we're the "right" people, though.
That happened to my wife a few years ago. Went to renew her Ohio license, had a ticket from New York. A real pain to sort out.
My daughter and husband live about 40-50 miles from Guadalajara in an American/European community with American doctors, stores, water systems, etc. So far, the flu has not reached her area, which is in the mountains. They retired there 2 years ago from Calif. and love it.
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