across the border IF ANYTHING this is why the border should be CLOSED!

They’d be too weak to run in about 24 hours if they get exposed and fall ill. Vaccinations and scrupulous hygiene are the only things that can help now. Sound like Mexico City to you?

Let set aside the conspiracy theories aside for a moment. Today, the potential for a huge pandemic is increased. The mortality rate in Mexico is 6% thus far (1000 infected, 60 dead). That’s a higher rate than the 1918 pandemic already as I recall.

The Obama adminimstration can do a lot to help or harm the situation. It’s my guess that they’ll fumble about and miss the opportunity. Most notably, I agree that the US Mexican border, including air travel, should be closed immediately, at least until personnel on the ground in Mexico City get a good grip on what’s going on. For fear of straining relations, this, Obama will not do, not in time to be useful, anyway. Trust me, infected Mexicans making a run for an unattended border will strain relations worse.

I bothered to look up the vaccination schedule on the WHO.org website. Anyone who got a flu vaccination last Autumn got vaccine specifically targeting the H1N1 strains. In America, at least there may be considerable “herd immunity” because of the large segment of the population that bothered to get their annual flu shot last November. I’d be willing to bet that people in Mexico weren’t so smart. Filthy as the general population in Mexico City is, they don’t typically get big influenza outbreaks in Mexico, don’t ask me why.

I am going to check around and see if last Autumn’s immunity boost carries this deeply into the year. I will update what I find here. Unless someone else can beat me to it.

Ask your doctor about the benefits of vaccination at this point.
Wash your hands.
Don’t sneeze on– or allow yourself to sneezed on — by people.
Chew out anyone who does.
Treat fever and flu-like symptoms seriously.
(Same as it ever was.)

Sam

All 6 cases in CA are recovering from the illness.

If people are looking for the next big deadly pandemic, this swine flu thing doesn’t read to me as being the one.

Maybe this will make “the one’ and congress shut down illegal traffic across our borders. We have drug cartels, now swine flu and I am waiting to hear from Obama why its our fault.

/sarc

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aEsNownABJ6Q

The outbreak coincided with the President Barack Obama’s trip to Mexico City on April 16. Obama was received at Mexico’s anthropology museum in Mexico City by Felipe Solis, a distinguished archeologist who died the following day from symptoms similar to flu, Reforma newspaper reported. The newspaper didn’t confirm if Solis had swine flu or not.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D97PNLSO0

Obama’s health fine after trip to Mexico

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Global flu epidemic fear grows, more U.S. cases

Tests confirmed that eight New York City schoolchildren had a type A influenza virus that was likely to be the swine flu, the city’s health commissioner said. Kansas state health officials confirmed two cases of swine flu, CNN reported, adding to the original eight cases in the United States.

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The WHO says the virus from 12 of the Mexican patients is genetically the same as a new strain of swine flu, designated H1N1, seen in eight people in California and Texas. All of the eight have recovered.

You have a nation of poor public health measures, lots of poor and a a nice inviting border to the north. Besides bringing their drug wars here, they bring their diseases.

The Texas cases are worrisome. Three were in Houston. Two victims got sick right awy, then a third some time later. The third had no contact with the other two. None of them had any contact with pigs. Which means to me, the transmission is still going on.

I lived through the last swine flu epidemic. I could do without another one thank you.

How about a bit of compassion for those that have already been affected and the many more who, by all indications, will soon be. This virus could easily have been brought into the U.S. by individuals traveling via completely legal means.

Alternatively, the virus might have been (and at some point may yet be) the H5N1 virus originating in Asia.

The threat of a pandemic is one of those things that has been part of my general awareness for the past 10 or 15 years. Fortunately, the World Health Organization has become much more organized since the SARs outbreaks several years ago and so far seems to be responding well.

If there is any national issue that calls for setting aside partisan differences and working together, this is it.

More information is available from the CDC website here: http://www.cdc.gov/swineflu/investigation.htm

more of an inkling into this administration, than many of my fellow citizens. More worrysome yet, than this self-aggrandizing incompetent leader is the fact that ( again), our fellow citizens have placed him there and that he is the product of decades of planning from the “enemies within”.

Although it is now VERY easy to do so, especially with the first article, I’m NOT going to get political…….. just links with the writers’ own words…….

JANET: EVENTS DO NOT WARRANT TESTING OF PLANE PASSENGERS FROM MEXICO

The United States is not testing airplane travelers from Mexico for the swine flu virus that has heightened fears of a possible pandemic, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said on Sunday.

“Right now we don’t think the facts warrant more active testing or screening of passengers coming in from Mexico,” she said at a White House briefing.

PAPER: Americans told to wear masks

‘NO EVIDENCE’ OF BIO-TERROR

CALDERON TELLS MEXICANS TO STAY CALM, COOPERATE WITH AUTHORITIES

CDC RECOMMENDS PLANNING FOR SCHOOL CLOSURES

Positive: NYC students

WHO: Swine flu could mutate to ‘more dangerous’ strain

Flu fears prompt quarantine plans

Countries planned quarantines, tightened rules on pork imports and tested airline passengers for fevers as global health officials tried Sunday to come up with uniform ways to battle a deadly strain of swine flu. Nations from New Zealand to France reported new suspected cases and some warned citizens against travel to North America.

Mideast First: Israeli man hospitalized on suspicions

6 CASES CONFIRMED IN CANADA

Spain announces 3 suspected cases

GOLF TIME FOR OBAMA; HOURLY BRIEFINGS ON OUTBREAK

More later…………….. Film at 11.

but I would have had a harder time not going all out on your last article about golf rather than the one on Napolitano. I saw the pic of him on Drudge in his golf gear and immediately knew that we had nothing to fear, O was on the job. And with Janet right there to help protect us……….

………..what could possibly go wrong?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_swine_flu_emergency

The U.S. declared a public health emergency Sunday to deal with the emerging new swine flu, much like the government does to prepare for approaching hurricanes.

Officials reported 20 U.S. cases of swine flu in five states so far, with the latest in Ohio and New York. Unlike in Mexico where the same strain appears to be killing dozens of people, cases in the United State have been mild — and U.S. health authorities can’t yet explain why.

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Get ready….. it’s coming……. “temporary” suspension of “some” rights and liberties…….. All non-essential civilian travel will be first…… You can take your guesses on what will be next.

Paranoid ?

Nope.

I’m a realist living in a country with a Marxist in the White House who’s just itching for a good crisis to not let go to waste.

Over-reaching at it’s finest awaits us anon.

Since there is no HHS Secretary, or any other open senior position filled, DHS has the lead on the swine flu problem.

Today, a warning on non-essential travel to Mexico will be issued via The State Department.

Nothing else I know of is forthcoming.

Apologies for not having a link – I’m on my Crackberry.

Be forewarned: Your government is probably going to over-react and over-reach on this.

Breaking – 5.8 magnitude earthquake hit Mexico City 15 minutes ago.

No joke.

The Obama Administration can’t close the borders to any future Democrat voters. It doesn’t matter who might die from this outbreak. It’s all about saving their future power.

Right now, I’m on my way to keep the economy going and at the same time, excercize my 2nd Amendment rights and also reinforce my standing as a Right-Wing Extremist by legally purchasing yet another firearm from an independent shop/FFL — Really. That’s why I’m still out and about on the Crackberry.

I’m getting a very nice, techonologically advanced and highly concealable 9mm made in The USA.

Cheers until later !

That is all the ObamaBinBiden administration and Nappy and on and on parading onto TV is all about. They don’t care that they had done nothing so far and have no real intention of doing anything much anytime soon, just that it APPEARS that they are Large and In Charge — you know, that “they care” — all that usual Liberal touchy-feely expressing concern and that they care over actually looking to do anything that would HELP!!!! It’s all face time for show to reassure those moronic Liberal followers back to sleep!

and preschool should close for 2 weeks . The hosptials should prepare like a natural disaster is coming to the area and discharge as many people as possible immediately and don’t do anything but what has to be done.

I don’t know if this is a reliable source or not:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/talking_point/8018428.stm

Geez, isn’t a great community organizer good at recruiting people and building an organization? They told us Obama running his campaign qualified as real world experience.

It’s been 90 days. Where is the organization? It’s hollow in the treasury while we are in a crisis and its hollow in the Health and Human Services during this potential crisis?

What the heck is going on? Obama can’t build an organization or can’t he find anyone that wants to work with damaged goods?

anyone? Buehler?

We’ll start this post with two personal news items that might be affected if this Schwein Grippe really does run “hog wild” (pun intended).

I’m supposed to fly to NYC early Thursday morning, meet up with my business partner Janie ( ‘janiel’ here at RS ) and “my long lost brother” and sister-in-law from Norway, then we all drive to Philly for a music festival for a long weekend and I fly back here to Fort Lauderdale on Monday.

The following weekend (Mother’s Day weekend), Janie, her husband and their entire family are celebrating their three daughters’ Bat Mitzvah’s, which I’ll be doing the round trip flight thingy to NY.

Let’s “hope” there’s no “change” in the plans.

Anyway, y’all don’t care about my weekends, so here’s the latest on what you may or may not have seen in the USA media……………………….

File this first one under the heading of, Joo gotta bee keedeenk me, Mang !”

Linked on a few sites, including Drudge………… My first thought…… “This totally figures”.

From 14 January 2004
CDC to mix avian, human flu viruses in pandemic study

Maybe we could have one of the alphabet soup agencies look into who was working on that little project and maybe, just maybe check out where they are and what they’re doing now……….. I’m just sayin’.

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AP has a small breakout………

A timeline of events in the swine flu outbreak

With the following first date range……………

December 2005 to January 2009: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention receives reports of 12 cases of human infection with swine flu. Five of these 12 cases occurred in patients who had direct exposure to pigs and six reported being near pigs. Exposure in one case is unknown.

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2 Suspected Cases of Swine Flu Reach Israel

Two suspected cases of swine flu have reached Israel, both through travelers who returned from trips abroad in Mexico.

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An interesting take from CNBC filed yesterday 26 April – I didn’t see this until just now……………

World Flu Epidemic Fear Rises, Mexicans Take Refuge – US Deaths Expected

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U.S. Pork Industry Assures Customers Product is Safe

The industry-funded National Pork Board said it “wishes to reassure the public that pork is safe and will continue to be safe to consume.” The statement comes as multiple nations increase their screening of pigs and pork imports from the Americas or are banning them outright as the virus is said to have killed over 100 people and sickened over 1,600 since April 13 in Mexico. U.S. officials say the virus has been found in New York, California, Texas, Kansas and Ohio, but so far no fatalities have been reported.

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Quake jars already-nervous Mexico City residents

A strong earthquake struck central Mexico on Monday, swaying tall buildings in the capital and rattling nerves in a city already tense from a swine flu outbreak suspected of killing as many as 149 people nationwide.

Near the epicenter in the Pacific coast state of Guerrero, two women aged 67 and 75 died of heart attacks during or shortly after the earthquake, and four homes and a perimeter wall collapsed in and around the resort of Acapulco, state police reported.

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Emphasis on the following article is mine, along with a slightly snarky comment.

Swine flu epidemic enters dangerous new phase

The swine flu epidemic entered a dangerous new phase Monday as the death toll climbed in Mexico and the number of suspected cases there and in the United States nearly doubled. The World Health Organization raised its alert level but stopped short of declaring a global emergency.

The United States advised Americans against most travel to Mexico and ordered stepped up border checks in neighboring states. The European Union health commissioner advised Europeans to avoid nonessential travel both to Mexico and parts of the United States.

Comment: Really? No way. You folks in DC actually realize we have borders to check ? Ahhhhh, never mind. It doesn’t matter.

Next paragraph………..

The virus poses a potentially grave new threat to the U.S. economy, which was showing tentative early signs of a recovery. A widespread outbreak could batter tourism, food and transportation industries, deepening the recession in the U.S. and possibly worldwide.

Comment: I can’t go there…… I simply can’t.

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6 swine flu cases confirmed in Texas

A third high school student here was confirmed Monday to have contracted a new strain of swine flu as school officials worked to disinfect desks, doorknobs and other surfaces throughout the school district.

All three teens are or have recovered, as have the other U.S. patients who caught the new virus that has killed 149 people in Mexico and sparked fears of a global epidemic. The three teenagers are among six cases state and local health officials say the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed in Texas.

If it matters to anyone, the other three confirmed (as of this post) swine flu cases in Texas are a 24 year old…….. ooooooh boy……. a 7 year old and a 3 year old.

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That’s all I’ve got for now.

Protect yourself, protect your family, defend your freedom, rights and liberties. The 1st and 2nd Amendments are first and second for a reason.

http://www.waff.com/global/story.asp?s=10275514

“State Health Officer Don Williamson said Wednesday evening that two students at Heritage Elementary School were identified as having a non-seasonal strain of flu, which has a 95 percent correalation with swine influenza”

Friends are in from Norway and I’m off to Noo Yawk Sit-tay, PA and beyond for a bit.

I’ll check in via the Crackberry from time to time. Won’t be able to recommend any diaries that way – so apologies in advance if I comment on something hot without any reco’s.

See y’all around the Ethernet.

Let’s “hope” our country doesn’t “change” before I get back home.

Cheers !