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Originally posted by whitewave
It's a coup. Plain and simple. The flu scare is just an excuse to make us all clamor for whatever remaining rights we have to be removed.
End game indeed! Check and mate.
Originally posted by pluckynoonez
Find a panic-sex partner? I am bored with the last one. Honestly, the way you talk I wonder if there will be any time for panic-sex.
The Massachusetts Senate has unanimously passed a pandemic flu preparation bill that has languished in the Legislature before the recent swine flu outbreak.
Originally posted by chr1z
I don't see what the problem with this is.... I'm happy my state is taking the necessary precautions.
The only way to really stop this kind of thing is by segregating the population until the virus runs it's course.
Of 908 suspected cases that were tested, only 397 people turned out to have the virus, officially known as influenza A(H1N1)
In the U.S., an estimated 25–50 million cases of the flu are currently reported each year — leading to 150,000 hospitalizations and 30,000–40,000 deaths yearly.
Federal quarantine authority is limited to diseases listed in presidential executive orders; President Bush added "novel" forms of influenza with the potential to create pandemics in Executive Order 13375. Anyone violating a quarantine order can be punished by a $250,000 fine and a one-year prison term.
Originally posted by whitewave
Originally posted by pluckynoonez
Find a panic-sex partner? I am bored with the last one. Honestly, the way you talk I wonder if there will be any time for panic-sex.
Honey, at my age, I think people would rather die of the flu than have sex with an old broad.
Originally posted by chr1z
I don't see what the problem with this is.... I'm happy my state is taking the necessary precautions.
The only way to really stop this kind of thing is by segregating the population until the virus runs it's course.
Massachusetts health authorities took the unprecedented step yesterday of deputizing dentists, paramedics, and pharmacists to help administer vaccines against both the seasonal flu and the novel swine strain expected to make a return visit in the fall.