President Obama Cites Swine Flu Outbreak As Reason for More Investment into Science Research

Dems and the White House need to apply the political screws to the GOP for blocking HHS nominee Sibelius in the middle of a health crisis. Abortion or a burgeoning pandemic? I believe most Americans would say the latter is top priority…

Obama goes to Mexico. Swine flu breaks out.
Hmmmmmmmm………..

“Dems and the White House need to apply the political screws to the GOP for blocking HHS nominee Sibelius in the middle of a health crisis.”
That’s just what we need. A tax-dodger who thinks the answer to all health needs is more partial birth abortions.

drjohn: “‘Dems and the White House need to apply the political screws to the GOP for blocking HHS nominee Sibelius in the middle of a health crisis.’
That’s just what we need. A tax-dodger who thinks the answer to all health needs is more partial birth abortions.”
So it is your opinion that dealing with a potential pandemic requires that one be fastidious in keeping receipts for all deductions and shares your religious opinion on partial birth abortion?
It is that kind of utter disregard for reality and science that show how far our nation’s education levels have fallen.

Another big dose of debt will cure this. Debt cures everything in America.

And just how is investment in the science research today going to cure the swine flu epidemic now? I can’t help but think this is bio-terrorism! Now that we aren’t waterboarding terrorists, what do they have to fear?

Obama is so busy being politically correct that unlike Europe and russia he has declined to monitor those traveling from Mexico, close, or monitor the borders for sick travelers, and issuing warnings on travel.
Because of his arrogance that maybe believing his force of will would keep disease out, Europe is now recommending no travel to the US. They know we are contaminated beyond control now. Obama screwed us on this too.
Now it is too late. They waited too long. If this turns into a larger problem for the US it is squarely in the yet again moronic, politically correct, put everyone else’s best interest above those of the US, Obama administration.
THEY CANNOT DO AN;YTHING PROPERLY

Who is this Obamma –our MOTHER?
Geez, guys, have you noticed that the man uses EVERY emotionl issue to push more debt onto the American public? WAKE UP!! Just before slipping $2Billion MORE for the auto industry through Congress, our President
“agonized” over issuing info on torture and the flip-flopped over the prosecution issue with his timeline on what to do to coincide with the auto industry’s deadline for results at the end of May. He’s VERY GOOD at pimping the media’s exposure. This is just another case in point.

Boy does this kool-aid taste good

Conservative gal: Perhaps if Bush had done more scientific research we would have something today to attack all of these diseases….that’s what the president is talking about. I guess he should not do anymore research because it will not help the swine flu?
I’m tired of people criticizing him when he happens to be right….He’s doing the right thing. And perhaps these terriorists should have been tried and convicted and put to death instead of sitting there since 9/11 being waterboarded. By the way did it help? Obviously not!

The news story about the swine flu is old news. It is Mexico’s problem and let them solve their health cares problem in their country. That why we should put the fence near the border so that they can’t come into USA. We can’t handled them here anymore and too many problems in the USA. They should stay in their home in Mexico and Central Americas. Enough is Enough!

Obama and Napolitano did not respond last week when they should have.
This is a show to make Obama look like he give’s a flying rat’s behind.
He is spending more money we do not have.
Obama’s delay in reacting will cause this outbreak to be far worse than it would have been.
Other countries, knowing that we responded too late, are stopping travel and imports from the US.
This stupidity of the Obama administration will cost us health, lives and also damage our economy when we can least afford it.
But hey, this little soundbite really makes him look like he is on top of things and the news media can focus on that instead of his delayed, costly, lack of response.

MNM:”Obama is so busy being politically correct that unlike Europe and russia he has declined to monitor those traveling from Mexico, close, or monitor the borders for sick travelers, and issuing warnings on travel.”
WBGSJ:”Who is this Obamma –our MOTHER?”
Could the rightwingers please wait for Rush to coordinate their daily Obama bashing? When you guys are this self-contradictory it is really hard to work up any real interest in your latest rant. Thanks.

I just hope the government doesn’t use this as an excuse to try to force manditory vaccinations. I would not be surprised if they did.

Could the rightwingers please wait for Rush to coordinate their daily Obama bashing? When you guys are this self-contradictory it is really hard to work up any real interest in your latest rant. Thanks.
Posted by: jhw539 | Apr 27, 2009 11:56:57 AM
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Democrats all believe everyone works from a set of talking points. It is inconceivable to them that we don’t have a drugged, mass mindset, like they do.
When they have nothing intelligent to offer they invoke Rush, Hannity, and proceed to personally insult others posting.

Never let a crisis go to waste; use it to push your agenda, obama. Better be quick though because you’ve got 3.5 year left.

As I understand it, the GOP stripped funds for flu pandemic preparedness from the stimulus package. Good going, GOP!

JOE:”Be straight and tell us: is this serious or is it just a minor flu?”
Your question is far too broad and ambiguous to have a yes or no answer (a minor flu season in the US would be one with under 10,000 deaths from the flu – is that what you meant?). The transcript of today’s briefing up at whitehouse.gov gives a good overview.
“Today we can confirm that there are 20 cases of swine flu in the United States…all of the individuals in this country who have been identified as cases have recovered. Only one individual had to be hospitalized…
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Flu viruses are extremely unpredictable and variable; outbreaks of infectious disease are extremely unpredictable and variable.
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One of the points I didn’t make before is that if someone is ill with flu-like symptoms, in particular if they’ve traveled to an area that’s been involved, they need to contact their doctor and determine what type testing and treatment is indicated.”

MNM:”It is inconceivable to them that we don’t have a drugged, mass mindset, like they do.”
It is inconceivable that you believe hysterical ranting is a substitute for reality.
MNM “Please, you cannot find a specific treatment until the exact mutation is known.”
This is simply false. It is a flu virus, and it is very likely that it depends on the same proteins that neuraminidase inhibitors target. As for specific treatments, you can always treat the symptoms to minimize mortality rates. Again, hysterical rantings do not substitute for reality. I urge anyone showing symptoms to see the doctor, even if MNM chooses to deny all modern medical practice and insist there is nothing they can do.

MNM:”THAT IS WHAT THE TAMIFLU IS FOR. IT IS AS GENERIC AS IT GETS. BUSH CREATED THE LARGE STOCKPILES.
YOU CANNOT PREPARE FOR SOMETHING THAT IS NOT CLEARLY DEFINED. ”
I think I may have misinterpreted what you said… Your first sentence is a description of how to prepare for an epidemic that is not clearly defined (generic, effective approaches identified through research into the proteins flu viruses use in their propagation mechanism).
But the last sentence shouts you cannot prepare for something that is not clearly defined. Not sure how to argue when you’re apparently vehemently taking both sides of the argument.

jhw539 – “A mutation of the flu is hardly unforeseen. Note that actions taken during the past administration have ensured that we have a large stock of Tamiflu that may be partially effective against this strain…
Scientific and medical research is fundamental to preventing and mitigating the impact of outbreaks like these.”
Guess again, jhw539. You cite examples of diseases which are already known (and were at one time new), but there is NO WAY to anticipate all the ways in which an organism may mutate, the effect of the mutation on humans, and the efficacy of pre-existing vaccines on them. The flu virus is one example of a family of organisms that mutates rapidly. But is anyone working on a vaccine for a staph strain that is absorbed through the eye and liquifies the brain so that it drains through your nasal passages? No – because such a mutation does not yet exist and I doubt that anyone will prepare for it because they didn’t even consider that such a thing would happen. For all you or anyone else knows, feline leukemia may mutate so that it becomes an extremely malignent source of human cancer. I repeat again that it is not possible to anticipate and prepare for epidemic or pandemic contingencies because no one can foresee what new and mutated strains of organisms will arise or what diseases they may cause in the future.

ccc….LOL The GOP does SQUAT without the Democrat approval….If Susan Collins (R)ONLY ONE OF THREE REPUBLICANS WHO VOTED FOR THIS STIMULUS BILL stripped 870 Million Dollars out of the Health Care bill, The DEMOCRATS ALLOWED IT AND APPROVED IT TO GET OBAMA’S POLICY THROUGH WITH ALL OF 56 DEMOCRAT VOTES MAJORITY BTW ***REMEMBER, YOUR GUY WON AND IT’S ON HIS HEAD NOW…

We need to close our borders into Mexico tell this stops.
Obama needs to start thinking about the people of the United States. It is hear…yes… but lets try to stop it. The more people who keeps coming and going the worse it will get.

insight:”We need to close our borders into Mexico tell this stops.
Obama needs to start thinking about the people of the United States”
Not a single death in the US (out of several cases) and you WANT martial law.
I cannot properly communicate how glad I am that the radical right is out of power.

JHW539…DON’T BLIND ME WITH SCIENCE..Keep your eye on the ball….For those of us who live in Southern Cal…or perhaps other areas, How many times have you witnessed an illegal alien selling fruit or flowers on the street corner and people dumb enough to buy it….Guess it’s up to us citizens to begin taking control ourselves….Complain to City Hall

jhw539: I am not a repub… I voted for Obama from the very being. I have great respect for this President. With that being said… yes… we need to close our borders into mexico tell this flu has run its coarse… really think about it… hundreds are crossing over daily that is putting the United States at a higher risk.

jhw539….Your joking right???? Can I cite one single case of this happening??? Well let’s think about this. There are currently 13 M in the United States and Arizona alone arrests 3,000 daily trying to cross illegally alone. Five hundred thousand a year do get through the South Western border states for those unskilled jobs…Now we are presented with another reason to cross illegally. Can you cite that the 1,400 that are getting across illegally are absolutely not carrying the virus??? Are you willing to stake your health and your family’s health on a hunch??

Parallax View:”Your joking right???? Can I cite one single case of this happening??? Well let’s think about this. There are currently 13 M in the United States and Arizona alone arrests 3,000 daily trying to cross illegally alone.”
I’m sorry, I thought we were talking about THE SWINE FLU EPIDEMIC. I’m not up for a random walk through your favored hot button issues.

insight: “With that being said… yes… we need to close our borders into mexico tell this flu has run its coarse… really think about it… hundreds are crossing over daily that is putting the United States at a higher risk.”
I disagree. Montezuma’s revenge has killed more people in the US than this flu so far. I’m fine with leaving it to the professionals to decide when quarantine is necessary rather than being panicked by the latest headline into sending the national guard to the border (the only way) to close traffic with a major economic trading partner during a recession. We may need to close the border, but that is not a measure to be taken on a whim.

As if Mexico does not have enough to worry about they just had a quake of 6.0. Mexico City felt it and buildings moved.

The more acute thinkers on the left can see rationing coming, provoking Slate blogger Mickey Kaus to warn of the political danger. “Isn’t it an epic mistake to try to sell Democratic health-care reform on this basis? Possible sales pitch: ‘Our plan will deny you unnecessary treatments!’ … Is that really why the middle class will sign on to a revolutionary multitrillion-dollar shift in spending — so the government can decide their life or health ‘is not worth the price’?”
My own preference is for a highly competitive, privatized health-insurance system with a government-subsidized transition to portability, breaking the absurd and ruinous link between health insurance and employment. But if you believe that health care is a public good to be guaranteed by the state, then a single-payer system is the next best alternative. Unfortunately, it is fiscally unsustainable without rationing.
Social Security used to be the third rail of American politics. Not anymore. Health-care rationing is taking its place — which is why Obama, the consummate politician, knows to offer the candy (universality) today before serving the spinach (rationing) tomorrow.
Taken as a whole, Obama’s social democratic agenda is breathtaking. And the rollout has thus far been brilliant. It follows Kaus’ advice to “give pandering a chance” and adheres to the Democratic tradition of being the party that gives things away, while leaving the green-eyeshade stinginess to those heartless Republicans.
It will work for a while, but there is no escaping rationing. In the end, the spinach must be served.

jhw539…I see you do not live in one of the border states. You asked the question..if you do not like the answer don’t ask the question…Illegal immigration has many many reasons besides seeking a job. Free medical care is one reason for crossing illegally treatment for diseases, pregnant, etc., and now again we are faced with another reason, treatment for illness perhaps with a free medical clinic or family member or….

“All countries with national health care have high unemployment rates, averaging a chronic 10%, which is unavoidable when the government undertakes such a costly program and inevitably raises taxes to fund it, lowers the average standard of living, and as high taxes always do, it kills jobs.”
ROFLMAO!
Here’s a quick list of countries with nationalized healthcare AND lower unemployment than the US.
Canada, England Sweden, Norway, Ireland, Denmark, Italy, Portugal, Switzerland etc
The lesson as always? Right wingers lie.

“The more acute thinkers on the left can see rationing coming, provoking Slate blogger Mickey Kaus to warn of the political danger.”
Mickey Kaus is not on the left and Charles Krauthammer (who you ripped that off from) is crazy right winger.

Finally an Obama policy I can agree with. Too bad the rest of his platform sucks. Even this one will put money in the pockets of our most liberal scientists. I can just see a dime going to a man caused warming skeptic. LOL

“Translation: Enough people have to die to make it worth our while. Unless a lot of people are going to die we don’t want to spend the money.”
Its funny how right wingers had ZERO problems with Bush changing this formula when it applied to pollution to raise the human cost before regulations were needed.
Posted by: Ryan C | Apr 27, 2009 1:41:17 PM
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There you go again. When there is no defense to the Obama delayed response to this you invoke Bush and some crime you hype or imagine.
What is relevant right now is that Obama did not react properly when he should have.
What is relevant right now is that the king of Billions of dollars in pork, B. Obama, cannot now decide how many deaths will be required before we spend any money working on a vaccine or treatment for this version of the swine flu.
What is unimaginable has become true. Obama who wastes money beyond our wildest imagination cannot spend the money to properly prevent, then when it is too late, fight this disease.
He is two steps too late every step of the way.
Europe is advising no travel to the US which will damage our economy and is a non-partisan indictment of the Obama abject failure on this current threat.

“What is relevant right now is that the king of Billions of dollars in pork, B. Obama, cannot now decide how many deaths will be required before we spend any money…”
So the guy who spends way to much on way too many things isn’t spending enough on this.

jhw539…”Being dealt with responsibly?” How so??? What policies has Obama instituted to help stop further incursion?
If this is not a cause for alarm what is?

MNM:”What is relevant right now is that Obama did not react properly when he should have.”
Is that your professional opinion? Would it change if the flu blew over causing a trivial number of deaths in the US (all flus cause some deaths) without some hysterical sky is falling military response (closing borders, screening all airports in, etc)?
MNM:”CDC just did a news conference in NYC with Michael Bloomberg and when asked by a reporter, the CDC rep claimed that they are finding that it is not effective.”
I am more inclined to believe that you misheard a question about the flu shot (which is not effective) than that the CDC’s webpage updated 61 minutes ago missed adding this bombshell about a type A that is not effected by neuraminidase inhibitors.

Parallax View:”"Being dealt with responsibly?” How so??? What policies has Obama instituted to help stop further incursion?”
Dealing with it responsibly means not shutting the country down over the emergence of a new flu strain at the end of the season. They moved quickly on identifying it and notifying local jurisdictions, which has resulted in very effective (and minimally intrusive) quarantine actions to limit the spread.
Again, no deaths have been caused by this flu in the US. Do you think the borders should have been closed all winter to prevent the spread of the type A flu that killed thousands last flu season?
Are you always this easily stampeded by the media into demanding protection from daddy government?

How can Republicans be responsible? Obama lacks a health team and the GOP voted against the stimulus bill, remember? How is it when the Democrats have all the power the GOP gets the blame? It’s the people in office and with the power that should have the foresight.

s that your professional opinion? Would it change if the flu blew over causing a trivial number of deaths in the US (all flus cause some deaths) without some hysterical sky is falling military response (closing borders, screening all airports in, etc)?
jhw539
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You are exaggerating my point with your hysterical misinterpretation of my point. What is it with you dems and a “military response” so far you are the only ones hysterical enough to bring it up.
The point is we cannot predict which will blow over and must be proactive each time. Every other body from WHO to euro government, to Australia and so on took action long before.
Other countries were warning against travel to Mexico last week. We have the most travel, given common borders and all and,,, until today, no warning was given.
The next step, screening those arriving from Mexico, as other countries are and have been doing was also not undertaken. We have more travelers so the cost is certainly higher.
By tracking those crossing the border for illness and exposure you can determine the next step.
This whole debacle is a sign of what we can expect from the Obama admin. Every step of the way money was the concern and not the safety of the citizens.
We don’t know which way this one will go, and it may fizzle out.
The point is before we could possibly know which way it would go there was a responsibility to be proactive and limit the spread to US citizens. That is his job after all.
There is a defined process for how CDC reacts and the proper steps to take to prevent the spread of illness threat. It is not ad hoc with each event.
The Obama administration chose to not react and follow those plans, and now, too late to help, they are slowly implementing parts of the plan when it is too late.
It is so late Europe is advising not to visit the US because they know it is too late and we are hopelessly contaminated. This will certainly damage our economy.
Hopefully this will fizzle out and Obama has learned a thing or two so that if and when the next one rolls around, one that is far more deadly, he reacts in a rational timely manner.
If it goes badly and doesn’t fizzle out, Obama is OVER.
The point is you can’t wait to find out how deadly something is to react.
Every step of the way he did not want to spend the money to do the right thing. He was far too busy celebrating 65 billion dollars in new debt for every one of his 100 days in office.

John Ridder:”however, it is likely that if obama had a hhs secretary and filled 19 important posts we would not be so off guard. ”
In what way are we “off guard?” Are you another proponent of sending the military to seal the border over a flu outbreak? Just because you don’t think they over reacted to the extent you would does not mean they were caught off guard.

I’m concerned that he’s not alarmed.

Swine Flu is spread by tea bags.

“Democrats are injecting that term into this to inflame partisan rhetoric. No one has suggested such a thing.”
What do you think shutting down the borders entails?

Citation please. The European Union just made that official announcement today. I suppose you saw a very official press conference with a spokesman who said he wouldn’t visit Mexico at the moment or something.
Posted by: jhw539 | Apr 27, 2009 2:33:50 PM
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This is only a partial listing of the world response that was ahead of ours. Some euro countries are at the bottom of this list. It is easy to google and find many more examples without me spoon feeding you, especially since I cannot post the links themselves.
Canada CBC news advisory as of 4/23, travel advisory given
4/25 Geneva: via Breitbart
Japan’s biggest international airport stepped up health surveillance, while the Philippines said it may quarantine passengers with fevers who have been to Mexico. Health authorities in Thailand and Hong Kong said they were closely monitoring the situation.
Asia has fresh memories of an outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, which hit countries across the region and severely crippled global air travel.
Indonesia, China, Thailand, Vietnam and other countries have also seen a number of human deaths from H5N1 bird flu, the virus that researchers have until now fingered as the most likely cause of a future pandemic.
The Dutch government’s Institute for Public Health and Environment has advised any traveler who returned from Mexico since April 17 and develops a fever over 101.3 degrees Fahrenheit (38.5 Celsius) within four days of arriving in the Netherlands to stay at home.
The Polish Foreign Ministry has issued a statement that recommends that Poles postpone any travel plans to regions where the outbreak has occurred until it is totally contained.
The Stockholm-based European Center for Disease Prevention and Control said earlier Saturday it shared the concerns about the swine flu cases and stood ready to lend support in any way possible.
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What do you think shutting down the borders entails?
Posted by: Ryan C | Apr 27, 2009 2:41:01 PM
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Are you deliberately obtuse?
Do you think border screening equals border closing?
There are a defined set of steps that CDC follows. Where border closings fall in that I cannot and DID NOT say.
However the point is that unlike other countries we did not even institute screening at the borders.
Obama did not DO ANYTHING except play golf and monitor the situation. On the 23rd WHO set up a pandemic war room. Other countries instituted screening, and now because Obama couldn’t do anything at all, europe is warning against travel to the US.
Even if this fizzles out, which we all hope it will, these warnings against travel to the US are sure to cost the economy far more than any screening program might have.
Obama has a real problem with doing a cost/benefit analysis when he personally does not benefit.
Get ready for national health care. Let’s get Obama to tell us now how many deaths are required or acceptable before a treatment or vaccine is developed?
Read Tom Daschle’s book on rationed health care. A real eye opener. This is the guy Obama wanted to run the national health care system. The one that told Obama not to give us the details because we would never let congress pass it.

“Do you think border screening equals border closing?”
Do you have an idea how many people cross thru our borders each and every day?
“There are a defined set of steps that CDC follows. Where border closings fall in that I cannot and DID NOT say.”
That’s because you haven;t been given that talking point yet.

“Obama has a real problem with doing a cost/benefit analysis when he personally does not benefit.”
You’re trying to engage in some kind of reaction by Obama evaluational jump-rope where you’ll criticize his level of response to every potential threat in order to try and reverse engineer a Katrina type PR failure.

Another catastrophe, another opportunity for the admin.

Hold on.. Janet’s concerned about which border.. North/South?? Canada/Mexico??

27 Apr 2009 19:05:00 GMT
Source: Reuters
* Russia, China ban pork imports from Mexico, U.S.
* Philippines, Serbia, Kazakhstan also slap on bans
* WHO says no danger of swine flu from contact with pork
* U.S. groups also worry Russia ban could affect beef
* Some reports of added inspection slowing trade (Adds comments from U.S. Trade Representative)
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Add that to the travel bans and our economy is damaged by Obama stupidity yet again.
The rest of the world is playing him for the inexperienced idiot that he is.
The Obama response is a failure all around.
His lack of immediate response, well behind the rest of the world, opened the door for this opportunistic response.
2 thumbs up yet again on that Obama anti-america strategy.

“Now that we are seen as contaminated Russia, China, Kazakstan and other assorted countries in the region are banning imports of meat products from the US.”
MOSCOW – RUSSIA, fearing the spread of swine flu, on Sunday banned meat imports from Mexico, several US states and nine Latin American nations, a spokesman for Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said.
It imposed the immediate ban after PM Putin ordered the establishment of a special commission to deal with the threat of swine flu, although no cases have yet been reported in Russia.
Imports of all raw meat and meat products from Mexico and the US states of Texas, California and Kansas shipped after April 21 are banned ‘until special instructions,’ health officials said.
Banned, too, are imports of raw pork from Guatemala, Honduras, Dominican Republic, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Nicaragua, Panama and El Salvador shipped after April 21.
Pork imported from the US states of Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Kansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Florida is also banned.

“His inexperience and inability to manage this problem, even if it turns out to be nothing,
is going to cost us millions and millions in lost trade.”
Everyone give MNM a hand from trying to make a mountain out of this molehill.

“Now that we are seen as contaminated Russia, China, Kazakstan and other assorted countries in the region are banning imports of meat products from the US.”
MOSCOW – RUSSIA, fearing the spread of swine flu, on Sunday banned meat imports from Mexico, several US states and nine Latin American nations, a spokesman for Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said.
27 Apr 2009 19:05:00 GMT
Source: Reuters
* Russia, China ban pork imports from Mexico, U.S.
* Philippines, Serbia, Kazakhstan also slap on bans
* WHO says no danger of swine flu from contact with pork
* U.S. groups also worry Russia ban could affect beef
* Some reports of added inspection slowing trade (Adds comments from U.S. Trade Representative)
Thank you Ryan for reiterating that Obama’s idiot policy is hurting our economy.
Or were you comparing our response to those of other latin america 3rd world countries.
In any event you bet he screwed this up and it will cost our agriculture, travel and possibly health industry over and over again.
Obama’s inexperience and stupidity in his visible non-response is a major screw up.

Since the virus cannot be transmitted by meat did you ever consider that guys like you complaining loudly about apparently nothing might damage the meat industries as much as the Russians?
Posted by: Skip | Apr 27, 2009 3:57:00 PM——-
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You are so right. It isn’t that every country on par with ours, that do not border Mexico, reacted more assertively than the US. It isn’t that the World Health Organization set up a Pandemic war room on the 23rd, again while we did nothing, it isn’t that europe advised against travel to the US while again , we did nothing,
While Obama golfed, and monitored the situation……..
It is all because of our little posts here that these bans took place. The chinese and russians read jakes column and responses and decided to ban meat.
Obama did nothing and hurt the travel industry. Obama continued to flounder with the situation and now we have banned meat products that will cost our ag industry dearly.
We are only hoping that at the same time this still fizzles out and his lack of response does not have a devastating health price.

“Obama continued to flounder with the situation and now we have banned meat products that will cost our ag industry dearly.”
Well there is no need to try and spread this Russian/Chinese hoax. It will only do more damage. -Unless you have a political soapbox to shout from.

“All those little porky things that the House put in, the money for the National Mall or the sexually transmitted diseases or the flu pandemic, they’re all out,” Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) said in February.

“A lack that was recognized by europe, our allies, first when they cautioned against travel to the US.”
You mean the advisory that was issued today?
You must have been a real trip in the lead up to Y2K.
Do you still have rations stored from that one?

Aren’t we getting close to running out of GDP to spend? Obama certainly isn’t running out of causes to which he wants to commit taxpayer money…

Gee, I thought I had swine flu when they passed the porkulus package! Maybe Obama was trying to spread the pork in Mexico as well.
Oh well, at least teleprompter is back to it’s dirty tricks again….lolol

By next week, we’ll all be on here talking about what a great job Obama and others did to prevent this outbreak from becoming a pandemic. We’ll see your typical pat-on-the-back news stories about how they prevented the virus from spreading … meanwhile, most doctors aren’t even testing for swine flu. Try calling your doctor and telling them you think you have swine flu — they’ll tell you to treat it like any other flu.
Posted by: Miss M | Apr 27, 2009 6:35:22 PM
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I hope that is true as far as the health part is concerned.
However Obama will still have some explaining to do as to how he responded so slowly that other countries perceived travel to the US and imports of our products to be hopelessly contaminated.
He will need to explain how he let this economic damage take place and was too inexperienced to foresee this possibility…..
EVEN THOUGH similar import and travel bans were in place during the SARS virus scares, just not against the US.
Obama is too stupid to learn from the recent past that this is what happens when you fail to react!!

MNM
What action(s) should Obama have taken to ensure that Europeans did not impose a travel warning or some countries to impose a ban on the importation of (some) US pork products?

This makes sense. Most of the money will go to academics and they are BO supporters. Time to pay off another constituency

Why don’t we have a Secretary of Health and Human Services yet…?
Here is the Swine Flu creating a pandemic threat to a level 4 of 6.
What is the hold up on confirming Kathleen Sebelius???
Could it be politics???… Could it possibly be the Republican party of NO…
holding up the process…
Thanks guys…

This is a golden opportunity to jam more spending down our throats. The expression “never let a good crisis pass” applies. More taxes for everybody.

I can’t believe any thinking person would consider it a bad idea to increase the funding for science, as many here commenting have.
To those individuals who see increased science funding as negative, even if you doesn’t believe in evolution, surely if you or a loved one have ever benefitted from anti-biotics, an operation with anethesia or not had food poisoning in a while, you can understand the importance of science.
Try to look at the positive, that these will be good-paying jobs for Americans. That the research done today might save your or a loved ones’ life tomorrow. Now smile, our common sense and science tells us it is very healthy for us to.

I feel sorry about the bad news-the flu.I think wearing a garlic necklace could be useful for someone who doesn’t want to get the flu.I guess it’s worth to try.