Obama administration Anti-choice on Masks
By Roger Aronoff | April 30, 2009
The Obama administration is anti-choice on schools, in obedience to the teachers unions. And now on medical masks for its employees at the Mexican - U.S. border? Well that depends on whom you ask. We received this YouTube from ALIPAC, originally aired on KGTV in San Diego. But now DHS is denying that that is the case:
"While [Department of Homeland Security spokesperson] Kuban said no one has been ordered not to wear masks, a different administration official said earlier that agents at the U.S. border and at airports have been told not to wear surgical masks until they are needed."
While the emergence of the Swine Flu, now known officially only as H1N1 influenza A, is a definite cause for concern, it has apparently been widely misreported. Today the World Health Organization has confirmed only eight deaths, not 150 or more, world wide as a result of this new strain of flu. And the Centers for Disease Control has confirmed more than 13,000 deaths from "seasonal flu" so far this year in the U.S. alone. Where is the alarm over that?
Roger Aronoff is a media analyst with Accuracy in Media, and is the writer/director of “Confronting Iraq: Conflict and Hope.” He can be contacted at (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
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I don’t think this new strain of flu is as serious as the media is making it out to be. The numbers are let’s face it not that alarming. I mean there are 20 MILLION people in Mexico City and If you read the news articles carefully, you will see that although people have died from a flu virus in Mexico, not ALL that have died had that strain of swine flu, at one point out of 86 deaths only 20 of those had supposedly died of the swine flu type. So, let’s keep our heads together. We have a lot more urgent issues out there even above this flu virus. Hang in there.
May 1 at 3:26 pm | #1 | Link
Just CLOSE the damned border!