Swine Flu Update

[Rick Oltman]

UPDATE June 25, 2009
ATLANTA (AP)-Health officials estimate that as many as 1 million Americans now have the new swine flu. Lyn Finelli, a flu surveillance official with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, voiced the estimate at a vaccine advisory meeting Thursday in Atlanta.

If you haven't read the original post, OBAMA'S HORSES you should. It's below under the May 19th update.

This is the perfect example of how action, or in this case INACTION, has consequences. The failure of the Obama administration to act and secure the borders is responsible for this. YES, responsible for 1 million cases of swine flu. Luckily it isn't the deadly virus which was initially feared by health officials. But that is not the point. We are lucky that this colossal failure hasn't resulted in the deaths of more of our friends, neighbors and loved ones. As they say in the military, "Luck is not a strategy."

On the other hand, yet another Houston police officer was killed yesterday by...you guessed it, an illegal alien.

ACTIONS DO HAVE CONSEQUENCES. WHEN THIS GOVERNMENT TURNS ITS BACK ON SECURITY AND SOVEREIGNTY WE WILL HAVE NEITHER.

That's all. Just an update. Not a lot of new reading on this if you have already read OBAMA'S HORSES. Just a 10X increase in swine flu since the last update.

More to come from this administration on relinquishing security and sovereignty. Time to make that call, don’tchya think?

UPDATE 5-19-09
On April 26th of this year the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta issued a press release with the following statement: "To date, there have been 20 confirmed cases of swine Influenza A (swH1N1) in California, Texas, Kansas, New York, and Ohio. No deaths in the U.S. have been reported due to the illness." http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2009pres/ ... 0426a.html They also declared a public health emergency.

On Friday May 15th, just 20 days later, Dr. Daniel Jernigan, from CDC's Influenza Division, said during an afternoon teleconference:
In fact, "estimates of the confirmed and probable cases in the United States is probably not the best indicator of transmission at this point," the CDC's Jernigan said. "The outbreak is not localized, but is spreading and appears to be expanding throughout the United States. This is an ongoing public health threat." (Emphasis added.)

It's a little hard to estimate the number of people who may be infected with swine flu, Jernigan said, "but if we had to make an estimate, I would say that the amount of activity we are seeing with our influenza-like illness network is probably upwards of 100,000."

"Spreading...On going public health threat." From 20 confirmed cases to an estimate of 100,000 infected in three weeks. We should all be grateful that most cases have been mild even though there have been a some deaths. But, in that context one wonders if some of the suggestions posted here on May 1st had been implemented would we be looking at a six figure number today? You decide.

OBAMA'S HORSES
May 1, 2009
In responding to a question about the border and the swine flu President Obama said Wednesday that, “the horses are already out of the barn.” And with that naïve, flippant remark we’re supposed to presume that we don’t need any additional border security.

That statement is more than naïve, it is potentially dangerous.

All around the world governments are reacting to the H1N1 flu outbreak. And the precautions being taken may be necessary, or may not be. Some appear to be excessive; Russia, China and other countries are banning pork products from Mexico and parts of the U.S. even though the disease is transmitted human to human, not pig to human, for instance.

So far a lot isn’t known about the virus or where it even came from. AP reported yesterday “A portrait is emerging of a slow and confused response by Mexico to the gathering swine flu epidemic. And that could mean the world is flying blind into a global health storm.”

The news media is pouring out competing and conflicting headlines like, “Officials act to soothe global swine flu fears” and “Swine flu pandemic 'imminent'” and “Mexico begins shutting down as flu fears spread.” And yet the U.S. government is doing nothing at the border or ports of entry with the very country from where this version of the disease apparently began.

And, despite Thursday’s denials by DHS that CBP inspectors at the Ports of Entry were not told to remove their masks, a very reliable source told me Wednesday night that they in fact were ordered to remove their masks because it looked “unprofessional.” And my source also had first hand knowledge that inspectors at the San Ysidro and El Paso Ports of Entry were complaining loudly to management. On Thursday, after a CBP union official made an on camera appearance in uniform resulting in national news coverage the inspectors were told they could wear the masks. Great, we’re apparently back to government by public opinion poll.

Another source told me that Border Patrol agents on the line were issued masks and gloves and warned about getting into close proximity to the illegals they arrest, which is unavoidable as they have to search the detainees and transport them in their vehicles. As of last night the agents on the line had not been told they couldn’t wear the masks, presumably, according to my source, because they were not in the public eye.

Let’s go back to basics for a minute.

Question: Do we actually have something to worry about with this flu coming from Mexico?
Answer: A definite maybe. First of all, the regular flu is no joke; it kills on average 100 people a day in America, about 36,000 people a year. This flu could be more deadly than the average influenzas people suffer from all the time, especially in winter. We don’t know, yet. Based on news reports it seems to be closely related genetically to strains that have been quite deadly in the past. We need more information so let’s proceed cautiously.

Question: Should we take precautions, like many of the other nations in the world?
Answer: Yes, we should take precautions and act based on what we know and adjust our reactions as more is learned. And make those decisions based on successful models that prevent the spread of disease.

Question: What would have happened a century ago if there had been no health screening at Ellis Island and everybody was simply waved in to the Port of New York?
Answer: You know what would have happened. And, nobody said the "horses are out of the barn" back then.

Some countries have taken very active steps. Egypt ordered the slaughter of 300,000 pigs yesterday over the protests of their pig farmers. That does seem a little radical to me since you can’t catch this swine flu from eating pork (and yes the virus does apparently have genetic markers coming from pigs after all). But, that is their country; let them deal with it in their own way.

Our interest is in protecting our country. Which now brings us to the discussion of border security as the World Health Organization raises its Pandemic Alert to Level 5.

Politicizing the Outbreak
CHIRLA (The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles) issued a press release today that said, “As concerns over the spike in H1N1 virus flu cases increase in the United States, conservative commentators such as Michael Savage and Neal Boortz, Fox’s Glenn Beck, and columnist Michelle Malkin, in addition to separatist group Americans for Legal Immigration, have engaged in racist, anti-immigrant, anti-public health diatribes…” http://www.americanpatrol.com/HEALTH/090501-CHIRLAWhineMexiFlu.htm

And Rep. Steve Israel D-NY issued a press statement titled; Michael Savage, Jay Severin, Neal Boortz spread dangerous lies about the flu outbreak, fueling discrimination and hate. http://israel.house.gov/?sectionid=12&sectiontree=5,12&itemid=640

Israel is in New York and CHIRLA in Los Angeles, but it would seem this is a coordinated effort by open border radicals to silence any discussion about illegal aliens and the Mexican sourced swine flu.

Israel said, “Michael Savage, Jay Severin and Neal Boortz, among others, have blamed immigrants for the spread of the virus in the United States.”
http://israel.house.gov/?sectionid=12&sectiontree=5,12&itemid=640

And Savage confirms he said, “Make no mistake about it: Illegal aliens are the carriers of the new strain of human-swine avian flu from Mexico.”

Hey, Congressman? Anybody who knows the slightest bit about the state of our border security has already figured that out. That horse is out of the barn. But, by all means do whatever you can to end any discussion about illegal aliens. Your corporate sponsors expect you to…and so do we.

Oh, and in case you didn’t know, any comment on immigration, immigrants, illegal aliens, border security and anything related that is not a glowing reflection of the contributions made to our country is now automatically “hate” and “racist.” Forget that they don’t even know the definition of racism or immigrant, but then, that's the open border crowd.

Back to the basics:

Question: Are illegal aliens likely carriers of the flu?
Answer: Very possibly, along with legal border crossers from Mexico and, yes, Americans returning to our communities from trips to Mexico. However, since the number of illegal entrants is much larger than legal aliens and returning Americans, (it could be as high as 4 million a year or more) it is logical to think that if exposure in Mexico is uniform for all three groups that illegal aliens as a group could in fact have a greater possibility of carrying in the flu. This is a numbers game. It has nothing to do with race.

Back to Obama

The President’s statement that “the horses are already out of the barn.” is a diversion, a misdirection like other statements that, “it is already here,” etc. There are a lot of horses yet to leave the barn, Mr. President. And more are entering our country every day.

America is big with a population of 308 million people and growing to 500 million in less than 40 years at the current rate of legal and illegal immigration and the children they will have. (I had to get that in.) We have thousands and thousands of communities, large and small, and exposure to this flu is not equal. Just because there are confirmed cases in some parts of the country doesn’t mean that the government should just throw its hands up and say, “Well, its here, closing the border won’t do any good now!” That is not leadership.

BTW, I am only aware of one person, Congressman Eric Massa D-NY, who has actually called for the border to be “closed.” The phrase “close the border” needs to be defined.

But to simply say that the flu is already here and then throw in the towel is completely unacceptable. And it leaves Americans at risk.

Example
I live in a population center of approximately 7 million people. Two people were confirmed a couple days ago to have the H1N1 flu in a town just 5 miles from where I live. They had just returned from a trip to Mexico. (And they are doing fine now and recovering.) Now, should we just say, “Hey, the flu is in the area, the horse is out of the barn,” and give up? Is it not possible that in a population mega-region that is approximately 80 miles long and 50 miles wide with scores of communities that the population of 7 million people might just want to avoid someone else carrying the disease? Is it not possible that someone, or several people; illegal aliens, legal aliens or American citizens returning from Mexico might have been exposed to this flu and are entering the towns and cities of this population center every day? Of course it is possible given the huge unrestricted flow of legal and illegal traffic across our border every day. That is why we need something more at the border than the current response which is nothing. Regarding the legal traffic, the inspectors are waving them through, not asking about flu symptoms or anything.

I am as strict an advocate for border security as anybody, and even I haven’t called for “closing the border.” I continue my call for securing the border against illegal entry by drug traffickers, kidnappers, terrorists, common criminals and your typical run of the mill illegal alien. In short, everybody coming in illegally.

And I don’t give a damn about anybody’s claims today that you can’t stop this at the border. In 2003 WHO recommended screening of all those leaving countries that had the SARS virus and credited that screening with halting the spread of the disease. What is the difference between that successful outcome six years ago and increasing our response at our border today? Well, the 2003 screening didn’t interfere with our commerce, I guess you could say.

This attitude by our government that commerce is more important than anything else puts us all at risk, and they obviously don’t care. They don’t want us to get sick, kidnapped or killed like when an airliner slams into our place of work, but they really don’t care so long as business continues to flow. Now, if we could make the case that our open border threatens corporate assets, or that a pandemic could deny them millions of customers (it would have to be a high number, since they know there are more where those came from) then we might get the government to take action to secure the border.

But, until that happens, how about this? How about we slow down the flow coming in at the Ports of Entry just a little and ask those coming in, “Everybody feeling OK? Any cold or flu symptoms, got a fever? If you do we can have a doctor take a quick look at you and give you some medicine.” And, of course, be alert for obvious symptoms.

It would take about 9 seconds to ask those questions. And, if somebody did volunteer that they have some symptoms it would just make sense to check them out before letting them into our communities with this disease, or sending them back into Mexico with it for that matter. And, who knows, maybe when the word gets out that our inspectors are asking those questions and looking for symptoms, it might deter someone with flu symptoms from trying to enter the country. All of this is possible. And, if it doesn’t work at least we tried to identify the sick at the cost of slowing down the influx for just a few seconds. Seems to me like that’s worth a try. It would be something compared to what they are doing now, which is nothing.

As for President Obama’s horse comment, yeah, it actually has something to do with horses after all...just not barns.

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[ENUFF31]

The Mexican Swine Flu update notes from the White House. July 2009

I received an email from the White House about the Mexican Swine Flu. I call it that as it was first reported as the Mexican Swine Flu. The reason, a Mexican near Mexico City gave it to a pig.

This is a reasonable way to identify the origin and has been used for decades to indentify different flu strains or kinds. One being the Asian Bird Flu, Asian Flu, Hong Kong Flu, and so on. All of the Asian Flu strains were very infectious and spread through out the world. They live in such filth, as does Mexico. I have been to both places and I will judge on first hand experience. Asia and Mexico are the filthiest stinking places I have ever been. The pictures of India look similar.

As the previous article suggested we have a monetary override that will not allow us to call a spade a spade. They tried to rename the “Mexican Swine Flu” to the same name as a previous flu strain common only to itself to cover the fear of tourism in Mexico its origin. The new cover up name was H1N1 strain to cover for financial interests in Mexico and to keep the ports open. These are entirely different strains and it demands a new vaccine to be developed specifically for the Mexican Swine Flu Pandemic.

The email sent to a few million others and me from the White House now calls it the 2009 H1N1. Therefore, the politicians continue to cover for the Mexicans and American business interests in Mexico.

What does life matter to the wealthy, apparently not much? This flu is a pandemic, you know, covers the world. The serious forms of it will happen this coming winter and that is what the email is about I guess the worst is yet to come. The more travel is allowed the more chance all of us will have of being exposed. We should prepare for their mistake if not intention to maintain open borders and free trade.

They now have warned us to start being cautious, and sanitary all because of an amorous Mexican pig farmer, open borders and money. I say just don’t breath the same air as a Mexican or let one get close to you that has visited family in Mexico.

I am sure you have seen how filthy countries often wear masks, better buy all you can the stench of the third world is upon us.

Mexico, the land and people that keep on giving us their problems with the assistance of the United States Chamber of Commerce and our politicians who clear the way for them.

P.S.
Buy gold, Europe has asked us to convert to the World Money System aka IMF. The IMF is afraid of the American dollar and wants it out of the market place. Will Obummer cave? You bet because we are broke the result of a predetermined state of affairs. This is the era when conspiracy tales come true.

[jamesmartyn]

Hi all,
Don't that much idea about swine flu but i know that its very dangerous. Our government has found out few cases in of swine flu, thanks god all six are negative. God bless you people....

[ENUFF31]

RE: jamesmartyn on Tue Jul 14, 2009 8:16 am

Just what country are you talking about? Name the country I will look it up and verify your statement. It is recorded in countries around the world and that makes it a pandemic per the World Health Organization regardless of your countries status if your country exists at all. Now if your government has indentified six cases they have to be positive or they would not be indentified. Whose leg are you trying to pull?

[ENUFF31]

For the Record
The real danger is yet to come. Winter is the worst time for spreading flu and when most deaths occur from it. It will spread and be much worse; the Mexican Swine Flu has only begun.

The USA will only produce about 20 million doses and 80 million doses will come from the EU as usual.

We have not invented the vaccine for the Mexican Swine Flu as of yet. It is expected to be ready in October. Obummers health secretary says you will have to take two flu shots for this winter, one for the Mexican Swine Flu (covertly named 2009 H1N1) and the regular flu shot for the other known strains. I do not know if the formal H1N1 is included, which is a different strain than the Mexican Swine Flu strain.

[Calamagrostis]

Too bad that we have to have our posts delayed until they can be checked by the moderator, I guess it is because of all that [expletive] spam that kept popping up.

[Calamagrostis]

It is not just swine flu, illegal immigrants are bringing in tuberculosus, hepatitis, dengue fever, leprosy, chagas disease and new varieties of E. coli. Think about that the next time you are in a resturaunt.

[fabiosmith]

Hi
I know all about swine flu like how its spread, what is precaution, what is H1N1. But I want to know that it is more dangerous in winter season because in winter many people have cough or sneeze.

[courtneycoles27]

hi i have just one question is swine flu still exist right now?