http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091024/ap_ ... _swine_flu

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama declared the swine flu outbreak a national emergency, giving his health chief the power to let hospitals move emergency rooms offsite to speed treatment and protect noninfected patients.

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PSA: I am an overly sarcastic person. If you take me at my word, then i will most likely anger and offend you.

Yawn...

and this
http://whitehouse.blogs.foxnews.com/200 ... inst-h1n1/

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Hold my beer and watch this...

His daughters haven't been vaccinated?!?!?!?! Oh the shame! BLASPHEMY! The heirs to the throne may get sick! CALL THE NATIONAL HEALTH BUREAU! CALL THE NATIONAL GUARD! CALL DOCTOR HOWARD, DOCTOR FINE, DOCTOR HOWARD!

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I try to think, but nuttin happens.......Curley Howard
There is no past as it exists merely as a slippery bond tying the memories of the past to the dreams of the future.............Me
If we started life as an old person and lived until we were young, we would eventually finish off fucked as an orgasm.......George Carlin

Seasonal flu causes roughly 36,000 deaths in the United States each year.

So far H1N1 has resulted in a little more than 1,000 deaths.

But go ahead and keep panicking citizen. Washington thinks this is priority numero uno.

The deficit is a National fucking Emergency...not this crap.

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Hold my beer and watch this...

qft

ur avatar tells us what to do

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HOCKEY IS BACK!

Could it be Washington thinks this is worthy of priority merely as a national scare tactic to get all the skirt hangers to cry for public health......"OMG! If we have public health, all this wouldnt happen"....... Obama smiles shyly and proclaims...VICTORY! and another 200 billion added to the deficit every year. The wonderful world of mind controlling propaganda.

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I try to think, but nuttin happens.......Curley Howard
There is no past as it exists merely as a slippery bond tying the memories of the past to the dreams of the future.............Me
If we started life as an old person and lived until we were young, we would eventually finish off fucked as an orgasm.......George Carlin

Well shit, ItsMe, I didn't think of it that way. Hmmm.....

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mechaphil

Exactly what crosscheck said... Woop de doo... you wanna freak out? your just freaking out cuz its new and unknown... My one friend got swine flu when it first came out and now he is back on his feet like nothing... he didnt die from it... he is fine... people are just freaking out over the little things... this is no state of emergancy, thats for sure.

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LETS GO BUFFALO!

i hope i get swine flu, so i can be a survivor. maybe ill write a book about it. make millions.

"i beat swine flu"

theyll make an awareness ribbon for me.

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Ill buy your book, and you can sign it for me.

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LETS GO BUFFALO!

Orange Alert!
No wait, Yellow Alert!
Er RANDOM ORANGE ALERT!!!!!!!
what other colors are there?

WATCH OUT ORANGE ALERT!

wait, what about false panic?

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Proud LGBTQQ Individual

Yup. Just wait until the dollar collapses. The question is not if, but when. That'll be the most funnest time ever.

Good thing the swine flu vaccine arrived on time and was well distributed, as guaranteed by our dependable and efficient gov't. What an excellent audition for gov't health care.

I blame Katrina for this. Ever since that disaster no one wants a Katrina to occur on their watch. I saw let it happen. Get it out of the way early on so you don't have to stress about it later. I could be wrong about this. I probably am but I haven't accepted a penny in government bail out money so you should all listen to me. I mean I must be doing something right... therefore I can do no wrong. We're all screwed.

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All the things we wanted each other to be we'll never be.

When I quickly read through this the first time I thought you had written "I blame Kalinin for this"

The deficit might just be slightly more important than this Cross, but hell it's also a lot harder to fix for Barrack "babysteps" Obama.

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"I don't feel like Satan, but I am to them"
Neil Young

Mr. Schony works in hospitals. His employer has mandated that he be vaccinated or lose his job. He is considered an outside health care worker and can't find anyone to vaccinate him. Fun times.

ItsMe brought up a great point. Cause for real concern would be a world-wide influenza pandemic such as 1918-1919 when at least 20 - 40 million people died. A mortality rate that some place at 50 out of every 1000 people GLOBALLY.

We have antibacterial hand sanitizer at work. I find it to be really stupid.

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Proud LGBTQQ Individual

I have a coworker who's aprehension of swine flu teeters on paranoia. He dispenes a length of hand towel prior to washing his hands so his clean hands don't touch the handle after washing. I didn't know he did this until I took some hand towel as I was also washing my hands.

Fun - fun times.....

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"I'll rap you with my cane; you pencil necked geek!!"

-Bowler, imitating Freddy Blassie, at the very first M & G.

I've done that for years.

Not because of swine flu, I'm not worried about that. Just for the seasonal flu/cold/sniffles/whatever. Or the swine flu. Or whatever else.

Let down a bit of paper towel unless it's an automatic dispenser or you can use your arm on it. Wash your hands, tear off the paper towel, then use it to turn off the sink and to open the door on your way out.

Figure how many people do their thing in the bathroom then don't wash their hands, and grab the door handle on the way out. Then you grab that same door handle that they touched with Grier knows what on their hands.

I don't find anything wrong with hand sanitizer everywhere either - stop the spread of germs. Not necessarily swine flu either.

However, there have been studies that indicate over-use of antibacterial soaps or sanitizers can have negative effects and make you more susceptible to illness.

"Smoke Screens"

Swine Flu

Invading Iraq


Damn that Obama is one evil sumbitch

There was a strange sense of "prescience" present in the film "V For Vendetta" - Especially so when the government begins to barrage it's citizens with all the alarmism and misinformation and doomsday broadcasts...

There's only so much shit you can put on a sensible person's plate, before the whole fucking room starts to reek of it.

One cannot rule happy, confident, joyful people. They cannot be manipulated.

They cannot be set against each other.



[edit: ...to be sure, one cannot rule a citizenry in which all hope is absent, as well - the complacency won't accommodate any action, other than a shrug.]