Obama ‘has declared H1N1 swine flu a national emergency, clearing the way for his health chief to give hospitals wider leeway in how they handle a possible surge of new patients,’ the Washington Post reports. ‘The president granted Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius the power to lift some federal regulations for medical providers, including allowing hospitals to set up off-site facilities to increase the number of available beds and protect patients who are not infected.’
Although victims of this flu should be treated well, of course, declaring a national emergency because of it, is over-the-top. This flu isn’t much more dangerous than the normal flu, according to experts. So why the obsession? There’s just one reason for that, I believe; governments in the U.S. and abroad (because they are doing the same thing in Europe) use the swine flu as a distraction. They want voters to stop focusing on whatever it is the government does (wrong). “Don’t worry about the economy, you could die if we don’t do something!”
Sadly for Obama, at least, the strategy doesn’t work. Nobody is falling for it.
So, instead of obsessing over a disease that isn’t that dangerous, let’s talk politics.
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