"The idea of spending 10 days in the house with two small children, with no cafes, no museums, is totally unappealing so I'm going to San Diego," said an American expatriate, C.R. Hibbs, who was headed out of the city with her kids.
That's just fucking stupid. Seriously. I know she's within her rights to do it, but it's dumb anyway.
The Swine flu variant has already jumped containment. It's out of Mexico, and is now in several other countires. Just have to let it run its course now.
Correction Mr. President, I DID build this, and please give Lurker a hug, we wouldn't want to damage his self-esteem.
Its absolutely retarded, the way people are reacting. Wash your hands regularly, don't touch your mouth/face if you touch something/someone you think may be contaminated. In general just be more sanitary... its not that hard.
Let it kill a few hundred (or thousand) more people and then maybe we can consider it a pandemic... at this point its just a virus thats broken containment. I mean seriously, how small is 103 people out of the entire population of our planet?
I haven't seen people over-reacting to this at all other than on the internet. It's been all about taking normal precautions you would or should during any given flu season. I think if there is any concern it lies in the 6% mortality rate seen in Mexico, compared to the Spanish flu which was around 2%.
There's been talk of closing the border, EU is advising people not to travel to the Americas (they have there own outbreaks already), Russia checking all planes and cutting off meat imports. Some of the reactions to this seem absolutely retarded.
The Flu is impossible to contain anyway - it's contagious before symptoms set in. My main comment was on people moving to avoid the flu. You're probably better staying put and being as healthy as possible.
Fallakin Kuvari wrote:Its absolutely retarded, the way people are reacting. Wash your hands regularly, don't touch your mouth/face if you touch something/someone you think may be contaminated. In general just be more sanitary... its not that hard.
If you want to read some really retarded responses to the Swine Flu, look no further than neo-con commentators
"Illegal aliens are bringing in a deadly new flue strain. Make no mistake about it," Michael Savage.
"I've blogged for years about the spread of contagious diseases from around the world into the US as a result of uncontrolled immigration," Michelle Malkin.
"What happens if there's a rash of deaths in Mexico... and if you're a family in Mexico and people are dying and Americans are not, why wouldn't you flood this border?" announces Glenn Beck.
"What better way to sneak a virus into this country than to give it to Mexicans....then spread a rumor there there are construction jobs here, and there they come," Boortz.
Savage believes that radical Islamic countries planted the virus in Mexico knowing that humans make the "perfect mules for bringing the strain into America."
Rep. Michele Bachmann says she finds it an "interesting coincidence" that the last swine flu outbreak in the U.S. occurred under a Democratic president -- though her claim is historically inaccurate.
The last major outbreak of swine flu occurred in 1976, when Republican Gerald Ford was president. The outbreak started when an army private died and four others were hospitalized at Fort Dix in New Jersey.
Bachmann, a Minnesota Republican, made her comments to conservative media outlet Pajamas TV on Monday. She says she's not "blaming this on President Obama" but found it an interesting coincidence that a Democrat was running the country at the time of the outbreak.
President Jimmy Carter, who succeeded Ford, did continue swine flu vaccinations when he took office.
A call to Bachmann's office Tuesday seeking comment wasn't immediately returned.
The most sensible of those quotes was Glenn Beck's... Why wouldn't you rush the border if everyone down there was dying and Americans weren't when there were clearly signs that people had contracted the virus?
Correct, but it could potentially increase that rush over the border for healthcare if things were to get worse down there and continue to stay better up here (in regards to Swine Flu).
How did you guys ever vote for Michelle Bachmann? Is there LSD in the water up there?
Well, it’s the Super-Monroe Doctrine: “Get off our oil, people who dress funny!” - M. Bouffant
"You're a bad captain, Zarde. People like you only learn by being touched, and hard. And you will greatly disapprove of where these men put their hands." - M. Vanderbeam.
The area she represents (the 6th district) is literally what I consider the armpit of MN, it's a suburban white-trash enclave of nuts. It has the highest forclosure rate in the state and probably the highest rate of gun ownership.
Michele Bachmann represents the most Republican-friendly congressional district in Minnesota. John McCain carried the area by eight percentage points in 2008 — the largest spread in the state. Two years earlier Gov. Tim Pawlenty swamped DFLer Mike Hatch by nearly 20 points in the 6th Congressional District. The Cook Partisan Voting Index gives the GOP a seven-point advantage in the area.
Harlowe wrote:The area she represents (the 6th district) is literally what I consider the armpit of MN, it's a suburban white-trash enclave of nuts. It has the highest forclosure rate in the state and probably the highest rate of gun ownership.
Is this saying a lot from a "liberal" state where over 40% of respondents to a gun ownership survey respond in the affirmative? I don't know the accuracy of the poll but it speaks volumes of your tolerance levels that you equate "suburban white-trash enclave of nuts" to "rate of gun ownership". Thanks for re-defining bigot for us.
To a conservative a district that was 60% liberal would be an armpit just as much as a 60% conservative district would be to a liberal.
Do you truly believe bigotry has anything to do with it?
"A few months ago, I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and best intentions still tell me that's true, but the facts and evidence tell me it is not." - Ronald Reagan 1987
