tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5774317.post1837164596708157285..comments2024-03-20T16:30:09.690-05:00Comments on The Fifth Column: Swine Flu - Something SmellsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5774317.post-63748203678895413562009-05-02T09:43:00.000-05:002009-05-02T09:43:00.000-05:00I agree with Patrick's assessment. Here is a stat...I agree with Patrick's assessment. Here is a statement from something I received from our local police department: In response to the Centers for Disease Control recommendation that affected states with at least one laboratory-confirmed case of H1N1 (swine flu) virus consider activating community mitigation interventions for affected communities. Did you see that "one confirmed case"? If that had been in place even last year, all the schools and communities in the country would have to be closed because there were way more than just one case of regular flu or bird flu. This is a concerted effort to keep everyone in crisis mode and in panic and asking the government to save us.Annhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05968810669834802481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5774317.post-22531142888050785082009-05-02T09:36:00.000-05:002009-05-02T09:36:00.000-05:00In my opinion, this smells like a setup to get sup...In my opinion, this smells like a setup to get support for universal healthcare. Currently, there has been so much outcry and resistance against a centralized health database with every citizens personal information in it to be shared between government designated healthcare providers. Create a pandemic scare and now the government can create the legislation to support it and the healthcare industry can no longer argue that it's not necessary. One more government move, like TARP/TARP II and the Bailout, to scare the population into complying with anything they want to push. I can see no other realistic alternative answer.Patrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08381087750301180720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5774317.post-13347985379008735192009-05-01T20:00:00.000-05:002009-05-01T20:00:00.000-05:00I agree that something weird is going on here. Ne...I agree that something weird is going on here. Never have they closed the schools for one case of flu in a whole district. It's a huge overreaction that smacks of another "crises" so we can be rescued by the government. We just go word that our school district will be closed all next week. They take the kids out of a controlled environment and let them loose on the whole area. Makes no sense.Annhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05968810669834802481noreply@blogger.com