Flu Scare - The ADHD Administration never wastes a good crisis
By NewHampster on May 3, 2009 at 11:45 AM in Barack Obama, Current Affairs
We are the ADHD electorate that keeps getting played and distracted by the masters of distraction.
To paraphrase the President’s Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel "Never waste a good crisis".
Now I don’t think they started this flu epidemic, nor do they control the WHO, but they do control the media that is trying so hard to over play this seemingly mild flu. The timing was so good that my distrusting mind does wonder if they did have a hand in releasing the bug in Mexico.
Here we have his Oliness speaking out of both sides of his mouth and getting all tongue tied when TOTUS went too fast. He was trapped between a rock and a hard place, smack dab in the middle of the Torture episode. Yeah. Remember that torture thing that was all over the news just before Swine Flu pushed it to page 3?
Somehow this crew running our country, always finds or constructs a good crisis to distract us when the news is not going their way. We saw Hillary’s NH win become the discussions of the Bradley Effect and rotten polling while the media ignored the fact that a woman won a major primary for the first time. Like flipping off Hillary the day after a good debate for her. It pissed us off, pissed off the bots because we made a big deal of it and completely distracted us and the media from his crappy performance in the debate.
The examples are numerous and well documented elsewhere. Obama messes up or there is something they want taken out of the news, then bingo we have a crisis. Heck, I think Joe Biden is VP just so he can keep putting his foot in his mouth and distracting the press from real issues.
My only real problem here, speaking as a true ADHD speedster, is I have no idea how the sane among us can counter this. They are really good at what they do. Rahm and crew make Danny Ocean look like an amateur. They conned their way into power and will continue to con their way into another 4 years of lining their wall street friends wallets. But how and why does all this help the bama boyz club? Prediction. Rahm Emauel is CEO of Bank of America in approximately 9 years.
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Looks like the flu scare is fizzling out. They will find a new distraction to replace it I am sure. How about what Barack and Michelle do on their date night? (By the way, things seem to be going to hell in a hand basket in Iraq now that the US has ended payments to the Sunnis to stop fighting.)
“How about what Barack and Michelle do on their date night?”
I heard there was a protester with a bullhorn saying “This is so great that you are here… Create fear and terror.”
Of course, there wasn’t much coverage of that part of their date
Health Literacy “The degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions”
This country’s health literacy is low, probably lower than financial literacy (and we all know where that got us.) It is clear to me the MSM is completely illiterate. So is Joe Biden. Add Gibbsie, SeeBee, and Bruno to the list. Get them off my TV.
(Barky gets a pass only because TOTUS feeds him accurate info from the CDC) If they can’t even provide accurate information on the difference between an epidemic and a pandemic or how flu viruses spread, they have no business trying to educate anyone else.
But remember when the major networks employed experts in these disciplines? That way, if someone in Congress or the White House spewed garbage ’science’ at us, someone at the networks could deconstruct the information for us. Of course, back in the day, we assumed if the Congressional prescription was ‘off,’ this was the exception; certainly, such misdirection was unintentional. And we believed the ‘expert’ from the MSM.
Now, in an effort to keep my family safe AND fiscally solvent, I have been forced to become the expert in all things. (I am still learning macroeconomics and fiscal policy.)
Hampster, I share your cynicism. In fact, I even share the mild paranoia about the whole flu crisis–how conveniently timed. It’s as if we’re living inside a huge shell game and the guys running it have fast, fast hands.
While we’ve been encouraged to go into a mini-meltdown over the “pandemic,” Joey B.’s gaffe, and the cruel, reckless flight over NYC, the torture debate took a backseat [an uncomfortable place for Obama to be since we know that a number of Dems are implicated] and on Thursday [Black Thursday according to some], the Senate defeated a bankruptcy bill [that does not favor the average Joe] and the House passed a bill that guarantees banks will continue their abuse of the public and our dwindling funds for a full year [might as well clean out the last nickles in the nation's coffers].
In my mind, it’s all sleight of hand. And we’re being played for suckers. Because sadly, we are.
There’s an essay over at OpEdNews sounding the alarm bell, which is what we all need to keep doing.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Great-Bank-Robbery-of-by-Brent-Budowsky-090501-714.html
I still think on the song “Razzle Dazzle” from Chicago when I think of BO and company. And you are right,they with the media in concert, are very good at it.
Funny you should say that, JS. That very same song has been going through my head when I think of the O administration. Among the lyrics:
Camera, spotlight, pandemic!
How ironic that the lyric is from a show called Chicago, and how prophetic that it came out way back in 2002!
Exactly my thoughts–thanks for the post!
Well, according to Obummer we are well-prepared for the flu epidemic. We have 50 million doses of anti-viral meds. And a couple of billion to spend on more doses. Someone should tell him we have 340 million people in this country. Oh, and this story absolves some Canadian pigs from causing swine flu. Apparently, it was given to them by a farmer who had been to Mexico. Heh.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/05/03/swine.flu.canada/index.html
but,they all recover’d.the farmer and the pigs he made sick..
Since the Obama administration is already taking credit for “saving” 150,000 jobs with the stimulus package, even though there are no facts to support them, is there any doubt that they will now claim to have saved millions of lives once this flu crisis amounts to nothing?
remember…he has a gift.lol..
Obama’s date night makes all the major newspapers and TV so called news stations, and it will probably make all the magazines. I could care less, but it sure makes you understand why the MSM is losing readers and listeners.
The media was inflating pandemic paranoia for 3 or 4 days before the White House offered more than brief comments. What Obama has said about it has been measured, logical, and reassuring. The White House didn’t create this situation.
What we’ve got here is the media exploiting a story that has grabbed the public’s attention. They don’t make and inflate “news” for Barack Obama’s benefit. They do it for ratings, market shares, and profit margins. Providing us with useful information–assuming that even happens–happens incidentally. The actual importance of the topic is entirely secondary to the effectiveness with which it captures imagination of the masses.
What significant events were entirely eclipsed as the media obsessively fixated on O.J. Simpson, Laci Peterson, Natalee Holloway, etc?
You think the four day media lead on this means the WH is clean? It doesn’t make it a given. Not when there are members of the MSM who pledged to help Obama have a successful Presidency.
So, maybe or maybe not. I’m not willing to go out on a limb for them.
(Actually, they lost me when they elevated it to a colored alert. I don’t believe anything with colored alerts anymore.)
I agree that the 4 day media lead proves nothing. It’s only suggestive that the White House isn’t behind the media flap. Note that FOX has covered the “pandemic” story from day one with equal enthusiasm, and they’re certainly not in Obama’s pocket. This leads me to believe it’s all about compelling stories and market shares, right across the commercial news outlet board.
They totally lost me too with the color-coded terror threat alert. Green-Blue-Yellow-Orange-Red. We’re still using the system. The threat-level color of the day for airline travel is Orange, with regard to all foreign and domestic air travel. For those of us who prefer words, that means the risk of air terrorism is HIGH. I don’t know why there are 5 colors. Green and Blue will likely never occur again. Yellow, or ELEVATED, is pretty much the baseline.
Weird, I was wondering the same thing myself this Sunday morning.
I wouldn’t get too complacent. Canada has announced the virus has been found in pig herds in Alberta. Great work there Departments of Agriculture around the world. You were so worried about a name, trade, falling pork prices, slaughtering and banning pork for no reason- you neglected to protect the pigs!
Why is this important to us? Not because you can get the flu from pork chops, bacon, or ham. You can’t. It’s important because pigs got the sh!tty end of the genetic stick which it comes to Influenza A. Pigs can get human and birds strains much easier than vice versa. The ability for a reassortment of the virus has just increased. Notice I didn’t say likelihood or probability. I just said ability. None of us can predict the future.
The US Department of Agriculture needs to change it’s name. It doesn’t give a flying fig leaf about animal health or the safety of our food supply. Just call it what it is….one giant lobby for agri-business.
PIGS CATCH SWINE FLU
Farmhand Infects Herd
By CLARA HO,
SUN MEDIA
May 3, 2009
A pig herd in central Alberta has been infected with the swine flu virus in what could potentially be the first human-to-animal virus transmission case, provincial officials confirmed yesterday afternoon.
More Albertans have also been affected by the bug, with Edmonton seeing its first four cases of the swine flu.
A man, young girl, and two women all have minor forms of the flu and are said to be recovering, and all are believed to be isolated cases, said the province’s top doctor, Andre Corriveau.
The 2,200 animals were exposed to the virus by a farm worker exhibiting flu-like symptoms after returning from Mexico.
The office of the chief provincial veterinarian was notified Tuesday that some of the farm’s pigs showed flu-like symptoms after the worker, who came home on April 12, exposed the pigs to the virus when he returned to work two days later.
The farm was immediately placed under quarantine and samples were taken and sent to the National Centre for Foreign Diseases in Winnipeg to be analyzed. A bulletin was also sent out to the province’s pork industry workers.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is now leading the investigation with the help of Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development.
The pigs, the farm worker, and the family living on and running the farm have since recovered or are recovering, said agriculture Minister George Groeneveld. There have been no other reports of swine flu viruses in pigs and the flu has been confined to this particular operation, he added.
Groeneveld emphasized that there is no evidence that the flu virus can be contracted by eating pork or pork products, adding: “Pork is safe to eat. There is no risk to our food supply.”
However, he said these findings could have an impact on Alberta’s pork producers and the export market.
“Border closures are unwarranted but there have been some closures because we have the (swine flu) in Canada,” Groeneveld said. “We’ll see what transpires. I think we’ll have to talk to our American counterparts and they have no problems, at this point, with the export of our pork.”
EVERYDAY STRAIN
Dr. Gerald Hauer, chief provincial veterinarian, said that swine flu is known to occur in pigs in the province, particularly a common everyday strain of the swine flu virus.
But this is the first time they were made aware of a swine flu strain that could be transferred from humans to animals.
Biosecurity measures such as limiting visitors to pig farm operations and ensuring workers shower before and after entering pig farms, are in place to prevent other similar incidents, Hauer said.
He noted that the flu virus is a “notifiable” disease, meaning within 24 hours of noticing or suspecting signs of the swine flu, incidents must be reported to the chief veterinarian’s office.
Corriveau, Alberta’s chief medical officer of health, said from a human perspective, a possible human-to-animal transmission of the virus gives no reason to panic. He added that people should continue to take precautionary measures to prevent spreading disease.
TWO NEW CASES
Alberta Health and Wellness also confirmed that elsewhere in Alberta, two new cases have been recorded in northern Alberta and one in Calgary, bringing the provincial total to 15.
None of the patients have required hospitalization.
CLARA.HO
Edmonton Sun
@SUNMEDIA.CA
I would send you this summary of work done by Dr. Leonard Horowitz. Dr. Horowitz first accurately reported on the Anthrax scare earlier.
“This unprecedented H1N1-H5N1 flu outbreak implicates the Ango-American Vaccine Pipeline, says world leading consumer health protector, Dr. Leonard Horowitz”
Consider the skyrocketing stock values of Novavax, Inc., precipitated by dozens of alleged flu deaths in Mexico. Then investigate the leading Anglo-American network of genetic engineers manipulating, mutating, and distributing these viruses. The evidence compels you, for the benefit of public health and safety to seriously consider, even decree, a conspiracy to commit genocide, according to this Harvard trained expert in emerging diseases.
Here, Dr. Horowitz urges an investigation of Dr. James S. Robertson, Englands leading bioengineer of flu viruses for the vaccine industry, and avid promoter of U.S. Government funding for lucrative biodefense contracts, along with collaborators at the US Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC). These suspects helped Novavax, Inc., in Bethesda, Maryland, produce genetically-modified recombinants of the avian, swine, and Spanish flu viruses, H5N1 and H1N1, nearly identical to the unprecedented Mexican virus that is allegedly spreading to the United States at the time of this posting. The outbreak was precisely timed to promote the companys new research and huge vaccine stockpiling contracts.
Scientists at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) are implicated through collaborations and publications involving private contracts with Novavax, a company that obtains its biosimulars through CDC Influenza Branch director, Ruben O. Donis, and Dr. Rick Bright, previously working with Donis at the CDC, now Novavaxs Vice President of Global Influenza Programs.
Descriptions of this virus is pathognomonic, or diagnostic, of a virus that came from Robertsons circle of friends, Dr. Horowitz charges. No other group in the world takes H5N1 Asian flu infected chickens, brings them to Europe, extracts their DNA, combines their proteins with H1N1 viruses from the 1918 Spanish flu isolate, additionally mixes in swine flu genes from pigs, then reverse engineers them to infect humans. The end product could only have ended up in Mexico via the United States from Britain in care of the CDC. The CDC had to have sent them to Novavax, where Rick Brights team is now implicated in a conspiracy to commit genocide—the mass killing of people for profit.
Grover Norquist gets his wish and we the people get stuck with the bill.
This is part and parcel of politics as usual, you know… the type that was supposed to go away with the coronation of That One. These bozos in office use a trumped up crisis for two primary reasons:
1) They get to act as if they’re actually doing something to justify their phony baloney jobs and
2) They can do a lot of nefarious things such as rifle our pockets yet again while our attention is diverted elsewhere.
bo.s old hopy changy is just a fancy name for sleight of hand