Posted on 04/28/2009 10:02:08 AM PDT by penelopesire
EL PASO — U.S. airport officials and border agents waved people through Monday with little or no additional screening for Mexico’s deadly swine flu — a far more muted reaction than the extreme caution elsewhere around the world
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“Why let a good crisis go to waste?”
No doubt about it that Obama will try to use this crisis.
We should remind folks loud and often that Mexico is where folks are dying and they have GOVERNMENT HEALTH CARE! I saw a pic today somewhere of armed guards preventing folks from entering hospitals in Mexico City and lines of people begging for help.
Not only the open-borders fascists are responsible....but also include the NAFTA Nabobs....NAFTA provisions make it hard for the US to seal the border for any length of time.
While the rest of the world bans imports and travelers from the USA and Mexico...we have an Open Borders/Free Trade cabal that will do anything to preserve their treasonous activities....which could make many Americans sick
That's crazy! 103 fever is a medical emergency, swine flu or not! Talk some sense to your friend.
She needs to find another Dr. as soon as possible.
love your tagline btw...lol!
Yeah, but he will just use it as an excuse to expand government. That might be why the response is so muted.
When did this flu start versus when Obama’s entourage was in Mexico?
A temp of 103 is NOT a medical emergency.
It warrants some tylenol and a call to the pediatrician.
Me either. We all knew that Obama would be a disaster..but how many of us thought he would bring this country to the brink of destruction in a mere 100 days?
It seems like he has been president for years already.
Even if they were told to do something I can see why they might hold back.
They might get prosecuted, sued or jailed by their own government for doing the right thing.
Look at Ramos & Compean, the “war crimes” farce and our CIA.
I knew that poser was going to be a major threat to our national security.
He is turning out to be the leader of the 5th column.
I agree with Cicero. If this flu is the swine flu and has a mortality of 6%, you want to give that kid every advantage. Find a doc that will get her tamiflu.
I was in the waiting room of a clinic yesterday, when one of the ladies working the desk passed a paper to another, and saying if anyone comes in coughing that are from any of these states (pointing at the paper), the doctor needs to know right away.
I should really educate myself on Nafta. I don’t know enough about it to argue one way or another with any authority. I am a free enterprise person, so my instincts would be in favor of it...but perhaps there are many provisions in the agreement that need to be sticken.
Good point..but: ‘Welcome to America..you don’t need a mask here’..goes a bit overboard imho...lol
Obama is not being called to the carpet for anything!! That is what scares me most. There is absolutely no checks or balances on the tyrant.
Many doctors offices are isolating people and giving them masks if they show up with fever or coughs. I am not in a panic yet since the virus seems to respond to treatment but I don’t trust Obama to get the meds out to Americans that need it.
Bush stockpiled millions of doses of the stuff for AMERICAN CITIZENS and I hear now they are sending some of it to Mexico.
I am all for humanitarian assistance within reason..but what happens if we need that medicine in the coming weeks? Then what?
The girls fever is 99 this morning, so mom is not taking her to the doctor’s office.
I am all for humanitarian assistance within reason..but what happens if we need that medicine in the coming weeks? Then what?
1) Either this is a serious menace to public health, in which case you keep people from areas with high infection levels out as best you can AND quarantine known or suspected cases of infection, or
2) It is a big nothing (comparable to run-of-the-mill flu) that has been used to panic the public for some unstated purpose.
Item 1 means sheer stupidity and incompetence, and Item 2 means Evil - that everyone infected is meaningless, is expendable, for some unknown goal that is too “important” for us mere proles to know about.
I don’t know which of the 2 is the case, but what I really cannot understand is why Janet Napolitano is in charge. Is she a doctor? Does her department have a big staff with lots of experience in infectious diseases? I say that the answer to both is “no,” meaning that this moron should be nowhere near in charge UNLESS we were going to close the border (which, of course, we can’t, as it isn’t PC to do that - and I’ve long said that this PC crap is going to get people killed). Why have a security agency in charge of disease? WTF, over??
Ping
That being said, maybe someone needs some peace of mind. And I understand that...
Actually Dr.Fahrenheit himself...never meant for 98.6 to be the "GOLD STANDARD"....as human temps change over the course of a day.
Rule of thumb...it's not a fever unless it's over 100 degrees fahrenheit.
fwiw-
If it doesn’t involve somehow sticking it to Caucasian, heterosexual males, preferably Christians, then Janet isn’t too concerned.
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