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Swine Flu
By Lt Col P
Still too early, despite its potential, to know if this will be an endemic, a pandemic, or just a big fat problem.
Random thoughts, based on my own readings and having been somewhat exposed (no pun intended) to the DOD discussions on pandemic influenza.
- The real pandemic flu won't be an event, it'll be an environment.
- Be very, very clean.
- Don't we wish we'd controlled the damn border? I blame El Presidente Arbusto. He had eight years to do it, and he failed utterly. Forget waterboarding. If you want to get him, get him on negligence. I wish I didn't have to say that, but there it is. And the open-borders crowd?? Don't get me started.
- Based on the severity of the disease, there are significant homeland security implications. '"Has anyone thought about where 20 million residents of Mexico City will go when they all start to panic and bug out of the city?"'
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In a jet age world-its doubtful that closing the US Mexico border would stop the spread of the disease-just like travel restrictions did not stop the spread of SARS in 2003.
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There's one good big point keeping me from being overly scared: pigs can't fly. There isn't the random threat we feared from a straying bird in the past bird flu epidemics. The porc can be contained, and the humans can act sensibly. So my guess is on the scale you propose is: it might become a big problem.