Here comes the next round in the Obama administration’s Game of Fear to get Americans to turn over all their personal freedoms to the Federal Government. We have been prepared for this one for several years. The seeds have been planted, and the scientific illiterates in the media (especially Fox News) will be glad to facilitate spreading the Fear to increase their ratings.
The “OMG, someone in a nursing home died from peanut butter” ploy worked so well that it destroyed an entire staple of the U.S. diet based on no evidence – now it’s time for the full court press – “OMG, someone died from a strain of flu we haven’t seen before”.
Regardless that in a normal year in the United States, the CDC estimates that 36,000 people die of complications of the flu. Early indications are that this “new” swine flu is not particularly virulent and easily treated with normal medications. People die in Mexico because they lack basic health care services. All “swine flu” means is that it contains pig DNA.
Influeuza is now understood to be a result of a virus that picks up fragments of DNA from ducks, pigs and humans living in close contact with each other. That’s why the flu starts in Asia (mostly China), where people live with their farm animals, and pigs are used to eat human fecal matter. Suggesting that farmers not live with pigs and ducks inside their house is culturally insensitive, if not outright racist.
The virus then spreads to migratory birds, which then spread it the next year to their bird cousins who fly South and North in the Western Hemisphere. Your neighbor who thinks ducks are cute and feeds them is unknowingly helping to spread the flu.
The Drum Beats of Fear are pounding their rhythms now at high volume, and will be in full motion next week. Expect government and mass media hysteria to call for limits on travel, forced inoculations, “emergency” spending on billions of doses of useless vaccines, and maybe even martial law if citizens resist.
If you think I’m the fear mongerer, read this Reuters account of the “special powers” the government of Mexico has already given itself:
- Shut schools and museums
- Cancel sporting events
- forced testing of people
- “Isolation” of people who are infected
- Power to enter homes and businesses without consert to search for the infected
- Regulate Air, Sea and land transportation
Perhaps your reaction is “Yeah, but that’s Mexico. President Obama would never do that here.” Are you sure of that?
*** Update 4/26/09 5 pm ET ***
Despite the CDC saying the strain found in the U.S. is different than the one that caused the deaths in Mexico, Department of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano has declared a “Public Health Emergency“. [Thank you George Bush for creating this out of control agency]
Of course, we won’t close the border with Mexico or require health checks of people crossing at the border or quarantine immigrants for a few days when they enter the country. That would be racist.