Joe Biden cautioned America against travelling on airplanes or subway cars today because of the swine flu. Keep in mind that the swine flu has killed just one person in America, a baby who most likely caught the malady in Mexico, in this go around. More than a half-million Americans have died of AIDS. Will Biden also tell Americans to refrain from gay sex? There are more than 40,000 deaths on the roads every year. Should we ban automobiles? Somewhere around 4,000 Americans drown annually. Would the beaches, then, be off limits under Biden's logic? There is no epidemic of swine flu. There is an epidemic of hysteria, particularly among the people who should be voices of calm rather than voices of alarm.

I suspect that the problem with the new swine flu is that it is new. The virus multiplies exponentially along with mutations. Then we are confronted with Darwin's natural selection process (whatever you may think of Darwin) and the most resistant virus is the next challange.

Guido

Another crisis that's too good to waste? You bet.

Chaos rules. Keep the proletariat confused and off balance and pay no attention to George Soros behind the curtain.

Eh, viruses mutate. That's what they do. That's all they do.

12,000 people died in the United States last year from one or another of the everyday, run of the mill flus.

But we should, apparently, be more afraid that this one is from swine?

In reality, we should be more afraid and concerned with how it got here.

Can they put Joe Biden back in his pen? Now that the he is the VP, the smartest guy in the Senate can't hide the fact that he isn't.

Today, he single handedly puts the fear of the Lord into people who might have taken the subway or flown or just might have wanted to take a walk outside.

What a maroon.

Monday my local hospital set a record for the most patients they've ever had show up in their ER in one day. 335, all most every single one of them just certain they had swine flu...lol
Out of all those people they hospitalized 9 not because they had swine flu but simply because they had plain old flu and were very sick.

I think the governments of the world just overplayed their hands on this one. There is a telling headline on Drudge right now: "Deadlier flu strain would overwhelm health systems".

The point is, this is a non-event. And even governments must have known for the last few days that this was going to shape up as a non-event, but now see a great opportunity to show how they stood in the way of a fierce virus, saved your life and proved their worth. If they weren't so insulated, they'd know how cynical we've all become about these things...

I was confused and scared until our great leader Obama came on and told me to wash my hands. I feel much better now and am no longer worried.

I'm so happy my friend butthead has become president.

Saw a nicely dressed gent this morning getting off of the train with a blue surgical mask on. Looked like and probably was an a$$.

The problem with the panDEMic is that the Dems are again in the middle of a panic. More to the point, there is not an epidemic, pandemic but stupidity is endemic in the ruling class. That these morons are treating what my mother taught me as information worthy of WHO attribution tells us all much about the self importance of these political hot-house flowers. Hurricane season is coming soon and we will be treated to new predictions of catastrophe and mayhem. Nothing makes these idiots view them themselves prescient more than pointing out the obvious and its importance.

Alan, what I see is a shortage of good old common sense. It goes kind of like: if it hurts when you do that, don't do that! But now I think that people are waiting for someone, somewhere to tell them, "don't do that".

One of the main tenets of the "progressives" is to remove individualism and they have been fairly successful over the last few decades or so by installing a system of public indoctrination starting with the government schools. Kids and adults alike have been taught dependence and groupthink and few people these days actually pursue endeavors where they think for themselves.

It can have much to do with human nature where people are basically lazy and will more than happy to have others do for them. This includes thinking to the extent where doing that critically has become rare indeed.