Posts Tagged ‘swine flu’

Swine Flu’s not contagious enough

December 11th, 2009 | 4 Comments

I work with a program that provides services to indigent elderly in Kentucky.  Mostly in rural Kentucky.  Now, by nature, indigent elderly are not the healthiest population.  As such, we’ve been very prone to being exposed to every infectious disease known to man.  You name it, we deal with it.  AIDS, flus, TB.  If a [...]

Our fearless commander in chief in waiting won’t fly

April 30th, 2009 | No Comments

“I would tell members of my family, ‘I wouldn’t go anywhere in confined places right now’. It’s not just going to Mexico… It’s being in a confined aircraft, where one person sneezes and it goes all the way through the aircraft.”  -  Joe Biden on the swine flu outbreak. I’m sure the tourism industry appreciated [...]

Democrats blaming Swine flu on Republicans

April 27th, 2009 | 7 Comments

I kid you not.  John Nichols at The Nation actually is blaming this “pandemic” on Republicans.  He’s serious too.  Here’s some meat: When House Appropriations Committee chairman David Obey, the Wisconsin Democrat who has long championed investment in pandemic preparation, included roughly $900 million for that purpose in this year’s emergency stimulus bill, he was ridiculed [...]