National H1N1 Emergency?
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The president declared a health emergency.
What the health does this mean?
According to Time, here is the text:
“hereby find and proclaim that, given the rapid increase in illness across the Nation may overburden health care resources and that the temporary waiver of certain standard Federal requirements may be warranted in order to enable U.S. health care facilities to implement emergency operations plans, the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic in the United States constitutes a national emergency.”
Well, that says precious little.
Time claims the best way to slow the growth of the numbers would be to rapidly manufacture and distribute the new H1N1 vaccine.
Bully for the manufacturers.
The Centers for Disease Control says that swine flu has become widespread in 46 of the 50 U.S. states, a level comparable to the peak of ordinary flu seasons but earlier.
Then why the emergency?
What powers does the government get in an emergency?
• The power to force mandatory swine flu vaccinations on the entire population.
• The power to arrest, quarantine or “involuntarily transport” anyone who refuses a swine flu vaccination.
• The power to quarantine an entire city and halt all travel in or out of that city.
• The power to enter any home or office without a search warrant and order the destruction of any belongings or structures deemed to be a threat to public health.
• The effective nullification of the Bill of Rights. Your right to due process, to being safe from government search and seizure, and to remain silent to avoid self-incrimination are all null and void under a Presidential declaration of a national emergency.
Gee, that doesn’t sound good.
Canada has extra vaccines and they sound suspicious.
What do you think?
3 Comments
Buffet
October 26th, 2009
at 2:22am
Let’s see now. I’m in robust health. I rarely, if ever, get sick (which is probably a good thing, considering I’m the biggest baby imaginable, when I am sick). I DO NOT trust the feds, and I don’t not intend to waste $25 to be injected with God knows what experimental government bioweapon and/or tracking device. Orwell knew what he was talkin’ about - and then some! As far as entering any home w/o a warrant and ransacking it’s contents, I know all about that, firsthand.
Rob
October 26th, 2009
at 12:53pm
Wow that sounds awful. Glad I don’t live in the US, although it’s not much better here. It really doesn’t seem like a serious enough illness to me for such ridiculously drastic measures. Surely more people die a year from seasonal flu than so far in the entire outbreak?
Buffalo
October 26th, 2009
at 8:56pm
Flu season started two weeks ago.
Of the 11 deaths reported last week that were due to influenza, 9 of them were caused by H1N1.
70% of flu cases identified (since August 30, 2009) are 2009 H1N1. Last week, all of the cases reported were 2009 H1N1.
Since August 30, 2009, 21,823 pneumonia and influenza syndrome-based hospitalizations, and 2,416 pneumonia and influenza syndrome-based deaths, were reported to the CDC.
The proportion of deaths attributed to pneumonia and influenza (P&I), last week, was above the epidemic threshold.