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Originally Posted by OldJeff
There are 116 cases IN THE WORLD, half of which were fatal (and I would bet a lot that the fatalities are elderly)
The little word IF is used by Bush himself
IF the virus mutates, IF it becomes easy to pass on to humans.
Giving him the use of the military as police AT THIS TIME is unnecessary.
IF there is an outbreak of something major, then we are talking about a totally different scenario.
Right now we got some dead birds in Asia. And there have been a hell of a lot more deaths from AIDS, maybe we should round up all the AIDS paitents somewhere, what do you think ?
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... ok.... one more time. bush can't give himself more authority. he simply asked congress to consider issues like this and i think we can all agree after katrina that local, state and federal governments don't work well together even when people are dying and there is advanced warning.
so... this issue of these viruses was big problem before looooong before this article was published. its been a big issue for a while now. its been an issue before the WHO for years. its not a small obscure thing made up at the last minute to justify a military take over of Anywhere, USA.
you use AIDS as an example... AIDS is not a disease that can spread easily. i am not an epidemiologist, but i am pretty sure that AID's is not contagious. AID's is not a disease that you and your family will one day wake up with and be dying before you even know you are sick. You won't wake up one day to see a city of 700,000 dying of AIDs with those people needing to be quarantined. AID's is a disease that spreads when two junkies share a needle or when two turd burglers sodomize each other with some other rare exceptions. If you don't want AIDs - wear a condom and don't share needles.
my point is always the same... everyone is basically saying "i dont like bush" - no one has offered a solution to the very real threat of containing a virus like this. we could not even get people food and water in NO when they were dying and suddenly it makes perfect sense to let those same fucked up people on city and state and federal levels all work together to contain a pandemic outbreak of a deadly disease? i am not saying "bush is great" - i am simply saying that it sounds quite reasonable to have federal control over states in situations like this.