Re: OT: Bush flops on Today show

On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 11:15:11 +0000, .DBU., wrote:

> In article <pan.2005.10.13.00.35.55.748581@xxxxxxxx>,
> Hachiroku <Trueno@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Yesterday morning. Bush was doing JUST FINE until Matt Lauer asked him
>> about the Bird Flu.
>>
>> Now, Health experts around the world, and Dr. David Nabarrow of the UN
>> have all said the Bird Flu will be devastating to mankind if it mutates
>> into a form that can be transmitted by humans to humans. Matt asked Bush
>> about his plans to stave off the Bird Flu (what the Government is doing
>> about it).
>>
>> Bush lost it. Didn't have an answer. Stammered like a schoolboy asking a
>> Cheerleader for a date.
>>
>> After dropping the ball on the latest disasters in this country, you'd
>> think that 1. he would have been breifed on the Bird Flu, and 2. he would
>> have a 'plan of action' pinned right to the top of his head.
>>
>> I began losing what little faith I had in our Commander in Chief right
>> after Jatrina, and it keeps getting whittled away more and more day by day.
>>
>> Of course, I would also ask, what is the UN doing about this possible
>> Pandemic? They have certainly dropped plenty of balls themselves (perhaps
>> even licked a few...REF Oil for Food, where Hussein walked away with $24B!!!)
>> Now is the time for them to redeem thamselves. Hear me Annon??? You have
>> the resourcews of the WORLD available to you, GET ON IT!
>
> When is the bird flew gonna hit us???
>
> What are the symptoms?
>
> Should I prepare my catastrophy kit and clean out the bomb shelter?
>
> Most importantly, should I start to panic now or wait a few weeks.
>
> Stay tuned to C (clinton) N (news) N (network) for the latest panic the
> public news.

I listen to the BBC...you know, the Blair Bashing Channel?

BBC reports today that the Bird Flu has been found in Turkey (the country,
not the poultry) and Romania (or was it Ukraine?)

At any rate, it HAS left Asia and is moving.

If you understand the nature of a virus, and I'm sure you do, then you
know it can mutate and change. So far, it has only been found in humans
who work in the poultry industry. But the fact that is HAS infected humans
means that it can be communicated. As it infects more humans, the chances
of it becoming a virus that can be passed to humans intensifies.

All it takes is mutating in ONE human being. And that human being may not
even exhibit signs of being infected. Remember Typhoid Mary? Carried
Typhus for YEARS before exhibiting any signs of it, but infected hundreds
who died.

Dr. Nabarro says the level of activity NOW determines whether deaths will
be 5 million worldwide, or 150 million.
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