The Department of Homeland Security secretary Janet Napolitano said Tuesday August 3, 2009 that pandemic flu will probably flare up soon after schools open in the fall, before enough of the swine flu vaccine is available. Napolitano stated there probably wouldn't be enough of the flu vaccine in the early stages of the flu season. Napolitano claims this year's flu season probably will be severe but not as severe as the 1918 influenza pandemic, which killed at least 675,000 people in the USA and up to 50 million people worldwide.
The swine flu, which is called the H1N1 virus, is considered especially dangerous because it's supposedly different from every other flu virus and as a result, it makes people defenseless against it. Whether or not the swine flu is a pandemic or not remains to be unseen. There's not been that many people that have died with it yet. It's an opportunity to give the media something to spin. It hasn't caused the kind of damage that influenza did back in 1918. However, precautionary measures should be taken with this flu like any other flu, especially since we don't know much about it. The most important thing is to protect the American citizens against diseases.
The first thing that needs to be done is we need to secure our borders. Open borders is no excuse considering the danger our country is in. Somebody with a deadly disease can cross our borders and we not know it. We should build a border fence and we need for border patrol to send those that cross our border to be checked for swine flu. When America used to have a sane immigration policy we had a place called Ellis Island where immigrants came to be checked prior to being allowed in our country. We need to have an immigration center similar to Ellis island as a checkpoint to those that come into our country. When immigrants would come to our country decades ago Ellis Island would check them for diseases and if they had any kind of illness or disease they would be quarantined or sent back from where they came. The immigrants weren't allowed to come and spread whatever illness they had to the American public.
Our schools need to check their students for illnesses and diseases. Our schools should test the students for swine flu. If the students tests positive, that student shouldn't be allowed to attend class with that disease. They should be quarantined. The workforce should test their employees for the swine flu virus. The commercial airlines need to check their passengers for the virus before boarding the plane. The U.S. military needs to test those that are enlisted in the armed forces for the swine flu. There should be clinics available to test people for the swine flu in all our communties across the country.
If America would stop allowing illegal aliens crossing our borders unawares, that would help prevent many diseases from coming into America. Because of the insane border policy our government has, there have been many diseases that have come to America such as the West Nile Virus, the bird flu, the Avian flu, and the swine flu. There's a good possibility the origins of the swine flu came from Mexico. We need to guard our borders along the U.S. Mexico line. In order to stop a disease or illness from spreading, you must find out where the origin of that disease came from and then work from there. If we don't guard our borders against Mexico and Canada, then there's no way to stop that disease. You must work from external to internal. Once we guard our borders, then we can work internally to stop the spread of swine flu.
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