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Originally Posted by conservativechick
swine flu is not the latest media craze!! it's a flu spreading throughout the world and its very possible in todays society where we all travel. The CDC is no longer a useful organization. They are no longer run by people who are concerned about our health but by politicians. when are you people going to wake up?? When swine flu hits your own family?? It just hit another man in NY, a principal i believe who is now dead. What if he were your son or brother or father??
Second comparing swine flu to media coverage of killers is senseless. Perhaps we don't need the over the top coverage of killers all the time but we do need the correct information about swine flu to protect ourselves. Oh and by the way, the Casey Anthony case is sensationlized not because the mom is beautiful (because she isn't) but because the little girl was adorable, how a mom could kill their own child, and the involvement of the grandparents all make an interesting story. And for the record Casey Anthony case did not dominate Fla news about killers. Off the top of my head here are a few others who dominated the news in Fla Ted Bundy, little Adam Walsh 6 yr old son of John, Gary Ray Bowles, Aileen Wuornos - fla female serial killer, Bobby Joe Long, Danny Rolling, Erin Belanger, and Skylar Deleon. These are only a few i can think of immediately.
The topic i posted however had nothing to do with killers and everything to do with an epidemic of the flu. If our government were really concerned with us they would close borders until it's under control, close off the borders to all citizens from terrorist sponsoring nations, and maybe even remove the pesticides and chemicals from our foods that are killing us. It's about time the politicians worked for us the citizens of the USA!!!
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The government is doing a lot. As far as the border is concerned, on an average day, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will: 1) process more than 1.1 million passengers and pedestrians; 2) inspect more than 70, 000 truck, rail and sea containers, 3) make 2,402 apprehensions between ports for illegal entry; 4) execute 70 arrests of criminals at ports of entry; 5) seize over 7,000 pounds of narcotics; 6) seize over 4,000 prohibited agricultural items; 7) deploy more than 1,000 canine enforcement teams to aid inspections; and 8) make 5,479 pre-departure seizures of prohibited agricultural items. In addition, the U.S. Public Health Service provides on-site medical assistance/evaluation support to CBP for all situations where infectious disease is suspected. All of this is tied together nationally, so that the best information and decision support can occur.
While not discounting the potential medical impact of swine flu, let's also remember the other things going on which impact mortality so that reasonable perspective is given. On any given day in the USA: 1) approximately 50 people will die in auto accidents in the USA which have alcohol abuse as a contributing cause, yet many gas stations in the nation legally sell beer; 2) there are somewhere between 600,000 to 1,100,000 people with HIV/AIDS and over a third of that number doesn't even know they have the condition; and 3) approximately 15 new cases of TB will be provisionally reported, investigated and treated accordingly.
Unfortunately, you just can't protect everybody from everything all of the time.