Swine Flu Pandemic?

Recently, there was an outbreak of swine flu in Mexico. Though it usually only affects pigs and people who are in direct contact with them, it has begun affecting other people. It also spreads quite easily from one person to the next.

While not officially labeled a pandemic, the WHO (World Health Organization) is warning people to be wary. Their instructions go something like this: If you feel sick, stay home. Wash your hands often. Wear a mask in public places where the flu is suspected to be. Go to the doctor if you feel like you have the flu. 

So far, there have been about 1,600 confirmed swine flu cases in Mexico, with approximately 149 deaths so far in that country. In the U.S., there have been 40 confirmed cases, and no deaths, and only one case that needed hospitalization.

Most think that the reason for the death tolls in Mexico, and the lack of them in the US, is because the virus has been going around for a couple of weeks in Mexico, while it's just beginning to outbreak in the US and the rest of the world. 

Experts think that the swine flu will only get worse, due to the flu's tendency to mutate. In fact, it was a mutation that caused this whole outbreak in the first place.

The WHO is worried that this outbreak of flu could turn into something like the previous pandemics in 1968, 1957, and at the very, very worst, like the Spanish Flu outbreak of 1918, which killed millions of people world wide. 

However, most countries, like the USA, have prepared for an eventual flu epidemic, and have been stockpiling vaccines to send out if needed.

Dude, I'm extreme!

According to an April 7, 2009 media leak, the Conservative party is now considered a bunch of extremist radicals and racists. According to this report, the economic downturn and the election of America's first African-American president have fueled a rise in Conservatives and people who favor states rights and laws over government laws.

Apparantly, this report concluded that there weren't any signs that these so-called 'extremists' could get violent or be a threat to national security.

It begs the question: Why are they focusing all their energy on a specific political group? Especially one that shows no sign of actually being a threat to national security?

Also, why are they lumping in violent people who are NOT Conservative in with the Conservatives?

Oh, no, we like our guns. Shame on us.

Oh, no, we want the government out of our pockets. We're so terrible.

Oh, no, we don't want socialism and the majority of us didn't vote for Obama because of it. We're so racist.

So, my point of view doesn't coincide with yours. That doesn't make me any more right than it makes you. Personally, I'm sick of both parties right now. I may align myself with the Conservatives, but I do not consider myself a Republican. I'm tired of corruption in our elected offices.

Those 'Tea Parties' on tax day, they weren't because we don't want an African-American president, they were because government spending is out of control, and we want them to stay out of our pockets. I'm sorry if I want a future. If that makes me a terrorist, then so be it.

Yeah, Conservatives, a real threat to national security.

DHS, why don't you actually do your job and look for real terrorists?