As our recent graduates march off to college in a dismal Obama economy, there is one odd topic on their minds that has nothing to do with academics: swine flu H1N1 pandemic. Colleges are bracing for an H1N1 swine flu pandemic this fall which has already shut down some campuses around the world. Read the story and tell us what you think as a parent or student.
This is a Right Pundits open talk thread where you can tell us what you think about anything in the world, but I’m talking about swine flu. Colleges are suppose to be a lot more fun than the economic decay and viral disease that we suffer under Obama’s leadership. Meanwhile the president is still on vacation but will return for a fresh start next week.
There is no stopping the swine flu on college campuses this fall. You could close all the colleges and universities in the country but it will not matter because a pandemic cannot be isolated. The kids will get it at home just the same.
People were careless in the beginning of this disease so it had no chance of containment. Even the president of the United States went to Mexico against advisories in the first two weeks of the breakout. Undoubtedly members of the Obama administration became carriers themselves back in Washington. The President set a terrible example of carelessness but it probably would not have mattered in the final analysis.
Read about the university cases and new worries here and here and here. This will be the worst winter for illnesses of any kind in two generations.
Luckily the swine flu is a mild form of flu. It will make lot of people sick this fall simply because the flu shots last winter did not include the strains. They will later this year, at least in the second flu shot. For this first time in memory there will be two flu shots to contain the H1N1 swine flu, and possibly three.
So consider the swine flu shot this year unless you have reason to think you are allergic. If you’ve already had it this year you will be immune to the strain that infected you already. But other strains will mutate so it is still a good idea. Even Barack Obama, who may have infected himself by going to Mexico against advice, will get a flu shot this year.
So back to swine flu. Colleges have no reason to panic. It is just the flu. There will be a lot more illness this year that will keep people out of class. Will professors be more lenient with absences this semester? Will college administrators make the right calls or panic?
Tell us what you think.
Swine Flu on Colleges (Video)
August 29th, 2009 at 3:42 am
I’ll Pass. I can’t remember the last time I got sick.
I wonder if Obama wore that get-up as he was holding up the nations largest banks?
August 29th, 2009 at 6:47 am
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August 29th, 2009 at 8:02 am
I think you write like idiots. Obviously Obama went to Mexico to meet with his Mexican and Canadian counterparts to discuss combating the Swine Flu it’s very self. Criticising that trip is like criticising troops, Senators etcetera for going to Iraq or Afghanistan where they could get into trouble or shot. Courage in the face of danger is what is expected of soldiers and leaders even Presidents. How can you be so shallow and stupid?
August 29th, 2009 at 9:04 am
I am dissappointed that it won’t be till mid october they develop a vaccine for swine flu. It will have to be used fast and won’t have the time to be population tested for efficacy and any side effects. Apparently there isn’t much profit in vaccine development and that is why few pharma companys do any research in the field. We need ot develop a better set of incentives for vaccine research and testing. There should be vaccines for bird flu and sars easily accessible by now. If just a tiny amount of all the money going to cancer research helped vaccine development it would make a big difference.
August 29th, 2009 at 9:40 am
#4 Brian, under this administration I’m sure it won’t belong before cancer research centers are having their coffers robbed…but the money won’t go to flu vaccines.
August 29th, 2009 at 10:00 am
well Joanne, then pray for a V shaped recovery so we get a big bounce in tax revenues on profits and incomes to lower the deficits. I think we will get something between a V and a U, which means better than is forcast by most. Aren’t we spending 700 billion on our military budget this coming year? Does that even include Iraq and Afghanistan or are they still counted off the balance sheet like bush did?
August 29th, 2009 at 10:02 am
My point was this admin has no shame…they have us so far n debt they’ll be taking our babies lollipops and reselling them as some kind of *changed* product.
August 29th, 2009 at 10:13 am
see your spinning a topic that really only requires a straight answer like I gave. Be here now grounded in reality. You can always do an editorial blog since your an editor. But shameless Hyper-partisan spin? to me that is like crying fire in a cool theater. That is what I mean.
August 29th, 2009 at 10:52 am
Brian, what????
And I’m no editor.
You said they should take money from cancer research for a flu vaccine…I gave a response to that…just because you don’t like it doesn’t mean you can compare it to shouting fire in a theatre…by the way, when there is a fire, someone does need to shout it, dont’cha think?
August 29th, 2009 at 11:00 am
see you want it both ways. Governmental administrators at the national insitutes of health make funding priority decisions and allocate fixed, or shrinking budgetary resources. So instead of giving say 30 percent to cancer and .02 percent to vaccine research, by giving 29.4% to cancer and .18% to vaccine research they could do a lot of good. Its a small overall change. I think you underestimate just how a half decent recovery will raise tax revenues that could be used to shrink the deficit. You see it better on the state than federal level, and the feds are mired in two shooting wars we know of and countless military bases and activities all across the world. that costs big bucks.
August 29th, 2009 at 11:08 am
Brian, if we don’t support our Troops and give them the funds they need to protect us, we will have no need to worry about the swine flu or cancer. Our only concern would be keeping our heads attached to our necks.
August 29th, 2009 at 11:12 am
that argument has gotten 8 years old and has so much mission creep in it. however gorden brown went to afghanistan today and expressed strong support for Britain to stay there. obama should be grateful for that. if we had just surrounded tora bora like we should of, or gotten bin laden when he was offered to us like we should of, we wouldn’t be in this 40 year war
August 29th, 2009 at 11:16 am
Umm…our chance to get UBL was blown under the Clinton admin, remember? As for brown, it’s a wonder he still has his head..trading honor for oil with Libya was/is disgraceful.
August 29th, 2009 at 11:38 am
well you certainly have a micro selective memory. remember when as a nation full committed to go to war bush farmed out the back side of tora bora to an unreliable warlord rathre than send our own troops in? big big mistake. From a simple tactical perspective we had a few weeks to get more of our own troops there. yes, clinton passed on a great opportunity over legal concerns, and bush threw out the law completely with torturing suspects. from being overly legally minded to being under legally minded and darn right sneaky.
August 29th, 2009 at 11:46 am
hey….no one chopped your head off for 8 years…you should be thankful. Yes, Bush made mistakes, as do all of us, but we were not attacked again during his presidency. The way the current admin is acting, would you wager we won’t be during his term?
As for torture, put the little inconsequential annoyances we’ve provide to the terrorists up against their sadistic brutality then come back and talk to me.
August 29th, 2009 at 11:53 am
al queda has a long planning cycle, like 10 years, and the wanna be’s are more unpredictable, seems every few years, or two in a row, and then nothing. I think the atlantic and pacific oceans protected us a lot and local al queda ideology doesn’t thrive or survive in the states. it just doesn’t compute to the locals like over there where it seems to find homes in pirates, criminals and the disaffected. ummm torture is consequential to peoples souls, if you are a human of course. to call it an annoyance is thinking just like a criminal would, no matter whose uniform your wearing. it could happen you stumble on an ultimate threat and go nuts, but it shouldn’t be a hidden policy of the government that they repeat and repeat. if you can see that. that is where it clearly passes into state sponsored criminality. if you can see that.
August 29th, 2009 at 12:09 pm
No…what I see are American families shredded into heartbreaking pieces every time we lose an American via terrorist activity.
Do you really believe there are no terrorist cells in the USA ?
I’ve spent the better part of 45 years living among Arabs. The Christian community is as patriotic and America loving as you or me. The other ones, well they’d just as soon kill you as to look at you.
I don’t care what we have to do to keep us safe. My priority is to see my grandchildren grow up as free citizens. That won’t happen if we don’t stop the radicals in our own back yard, as well as the ones overseas.
August 29th, 2009 at 12:57 pm
your assuming the government knows what it is doing, but it doesn’t always, they make tons of mistakes. system torturing prisoners is one of them. in a democracy we have a responsibility to give our government input and oversight.
August 29th, 2009 at 1:24 pm
So you admit this administration doesn’t know what it’s doing? yet you would trust it with your health care? Brian, c’mom…rethink your stance on things…
August 29th, 2009 at 1:29 pm
the same government is pretty much in charge no matter who the president is. clinton, bush, cheney, obama, biden, they can only try and do something on the margin before they get swallowed up, but bush was extraordinary in his accomplishments and probably clinton by his lack of them. obama has been put in a holding pattern by the repubs who wanted their august vacation. he gave it to them. now they are in the mood to give back???
August 29th, 2009 at 6:16 pm
they are giving back by keeping the government from taking over the health care industry
August 29th, 2009 at 6:23 pm
what you are talking about is those right repubs playing as dirty a pool on the nation as they can. I know they care more about their own ego’s than the nation since the spew such bs, but outside of that what is in it for us, we the people?
August 29th, 2009 at 6:32 pm
I dont know, maybe the country “not collapsing” would be good enough for you ”
Lesser taxes ? freedom from the fed having all you sensitive info ? Having the hip replacement instead of being fed oxy til ya croak ?
August 29th, 2009 at 6:33 pm
what is in it for us is a free nation where we get to choose the health insurance we want instead of what the congress wants to give us.
the people do not want the dems health care plan. they have been very clear about it.
the dems want to bulldoze the bill through as if they are in a dictatorship
August 29th, 2009 at 6:36 pm
well do you want health insurance portability?
do you want coverage for pre existing conditions? do you want to not be kicked off the rolls if you use it for a serious disease.