Relax. Dallas County HHS sent notes home from the schools on the 26th. The note had Priority: Urgent and listed 7 items under current information.
Here is a quote from their note:
This situation has the potential to rapidly escalate and particularly has implications for school-age students and schools. At this time, we are recommending the following actions:
1. Do not let your child attend school if he/she has symptoms of the flu, particularly fever. Your school should make necessary arrangements to help your child make-up for any missed school days.
2. If anyone in your home is sick with symptoms of the flu, be sure that they receive medical care as you would during a typical flu illness.
3. Persons diagnosed with swine influenza infections are instructed to stay at home for 7 days after the start of the illness and fever is gone.
4. Wash your hands after being around a sick child, and keep sick children separated from healthy members of the family. Encourage everyone to cover their mouths and noses when coughing or sneezing.
The schools are being closed because people continued to send sick children to school, and proper hygiene was not followed. Hopefully this will not be as lethal here. But people must take personal responsibility for their own health and the health of their children. Shutting down the border is like closing the barn door and burning the barn down 4 days after the horse is gone.
Good planning, cleanliness and common sense will get folks through this. Emotional over reaction, anger, and a lack of focus are your enemy. Ask your neighbor what you can do to help.
“Shutting down the border is like closing the barn door and burning the barn down 4 days after the horse is gone.”
That is a ridiculous conclusion and defies logic. One ‘horse out of the barn’ is different than 100 horses out of the barn. We have thousands of horses out of the barn in Texas.
Sounds like you have drunk the Obama koolaid. Good luck with that.
While the rest of your comments about personal responsibility were spot on, you and Pres__ent Zero both have the barn door analogy wrong. Shutting down the border at this point is like closing the barn door after one of your horses has gone but NINETY-NINE of your prize-winning thoroghbreds are still safely inside. Leaving the border wide open is akin to leaving the barn door open and setting a fire in the empty stall and hoping nothing happens to the rest of your horses.