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Originally Posted by JR
... 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.
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Actually AIDS spreads much easier than the bird flu, AIDS can actually be passed from person to person,(ins't that the definition of contagious) the bird flu can only pass from live infected birds to humans, so I should say, if you don't want bird flu, don't fuck chickens, right ?
As far as a solution, I already offered it, a vaccine already exists, MAKE MORE OF IT.
Your "turd burgler" comment does nothing but point out your homophobia, but that is to be expected, since homophobia is what won the last election for W.
The Federal Government already does have control in these situations.
If congress gives Bush the ability to use the Military as police now, he will do so, 2 people in a nursing home dies from anything flu related and the soldiers would be on the move.
IF there ever is a situation that needs the military to be used, the president can get the authority AT THAT TIME.
I know the legislative branch is usually pretty slow moving because everyone need to pack all the laws with PORK, but believe it or not they can move pretty quick WHEN THERE IS A NEED. There is no need right now.