Over 1,000 people are reported to have contracted the new swine flu in Mexico, and it’s been spotted in California and Texas. Here’s a report from FOXNews.
The U.S. government said it was closely following the new cases. “The White House is taking the situation seriously and monitoring for any new developments. The president has been fully briefed,” an administration official said.
White House sources report that, if the flu becomes a serious menace to the U.S., President Obama (peace be upon him) is prepared to fly immediately to meet with it, shake its hand and apologize for America’s record of antivirus imperialism.
heh, heh. I think one of them up there in that white house thinks that way too.
I am fifteen miles down the road from an outbreak of swine flu—in a public school no less (at Schertz, TX, near San Antonio).
No amount of planning can neutralize the fear, panic, and hysteria that will overtake the school, the school district, the county and the state over this event.
Please pray for everyone.
Deb, I will pray for all of you. The flu situation certainly isn’t funny, but your squib on Obama is hilarious, Lars. 🙂
Certainly no disrespect was meant to those facing the real problem. We are praying for you.
Nothing like a good belly laugh to start off your Saturday.
Prayers for you, Deborah. The reality is surely frightening.
Thank you for your prayers. One high school has been closed (three teens infected), and Texas Gov. Perry has ordered +37K rounds of the medicine, so maybe this will not get out of control.
Shouldn’t “Swine Flu Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” be in quotation marks? It’s the title of Richard Leibman-Smith’s short story (very funny) in the New Yorker, May 31, 1976. Old jokes, like old viruses, never die.
Impossible. All my gags are fresh ground every morning.
Belly laugh indeed.
Also, prayers.
I’m waiting for M. Moore to make film about Obama playing golf while thousands are dying.
I doubt that Mr. Moore would make that film, even if it became a true story.
That brings it even more home for me, Deborah. I lived in Pleasanton for two years in the mid-90s.
I had the flu about 3 or 4 weeks ago in Austin– I was pretty sick for over a week. So I think I’ve already had it.
Doc gave me written orders to stay home.
http://www.sspv-bishop.org/pdf/bulletins/2005/01_jan_05.pdf
That makes you immune, doesn’t it? Your Name Is Legend.
Maybe– one of the people I work with says the thing is mutating fast and that it can come back and re-infect you.
I choose to believe in immunity!