Yes, Only I would quote a line from a three stooges flick to title a story about a flu epidemic…..
Like AllahPundit, It is times like these; when I am glad that the majority of my time, is spent in front of my laptop. Now, if I could just convince my dad to stay in the house. Yeah, good luck with that. 🙄 This is a guy that has A.D.H.D worse than me. (Undiagnosed, of course…) The man is always on the go.
Unless you have been hiding under a rock; you most likely know that there is a very serious flu epidemic that is happening to our south, in Mexico. (Yes, that Mexico, with the drug wars.) What is worse, there are some cases of it being reported here in America as well. Which is not good at all.
Meanwhile, in the Conservative/right wing/Republican Blogosphere things are bit; shall we say, Varied. While the Neo-Conservatives are making a valid point that maybe now the US Government will take the illegal immigration problem seriously. Some others on the right are really milking this for what it is worth. I do not know which is worse, or more stupid; the idiots who are reporting that a man, that the President met with in Mexican died the next day, with flu-like symptoms, while insinuating on their Blogs that “maybe he will get it and die too!” Then there is the tin-foil hat crowd that is now claiming the United States of America actually made this virus up in it’s medical labs, so that it could distribute bad vaccines to people, in order to kill them off, all the while making a profit. No wonder the rest of American thinks that Conservatives are a bunch of crazy gun grabbing, Bible thumping, crazies. 🙄
How any person could use a situation like this to hustle Americans with ignorant paranoia and sleep at night, is well beyond me. Further more, how anyone can make such sick insinuations on a Blog and be able to sleep at night, is beyond me as well. Here is hoping that these people catch this disease and die themselves, God knows; the Conservative community would be so much better off, without them.
Anyhow, Mexico is working on containing the virus and our Government is as well. Something tells that this will be a non-story within days.
(H/T Memeorandum)
Whatever the origin of the Mexican Swine flu, it is not killing anybody outside Mexico. I am recovering from a cold or flu myself and I had to use my humidifier to recover as Colorado is very dry and disease takes lots of fluid out of you. So I websearched “Mexico City humidity”–15%, 27%–that’s dry as a bone. So that is why they die and we don’t. Give them wet towels or room humidifiers and it will be over in three days. Right now they are dying 20 a day–anybody know how to communicate this to Mexico media and to Mexico City hospitals–their life depends on YOU now.