Swine Flu & Your Intelligent Government

Vice President of the United States of America, Joseph Biden, said this regarding swine flu:

I would tell members of my family — and I have — I wouldn’t go anywhere in confined places now,” Biden said on NBC’s “Today” show.

“It’s not that it’s going to Mexico. It’s [that] you’re in a confined aircraft. When one person sneezes, it goes all the way through the aircraft. That’s me.

“So, from my perspective, what it relates to is mitigation. If you’re out in the middle of a field when someone sneezes, that’s one thing. If you’re in a closed aircraft or closed container or closed car or closed classroom, it’s a different thing.”

Mr Biden apparently speaks from the heart and considers his family as the benchmark by which decisions should be made.

On the other hand, however, regarding Janet Napolitano's Homeland Security and ICE agents:

. . . 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.

The official said the "science indicates" no need for the masks at this time.

And now it appears Mr Obama's Mexico City team (from his recent visit) is infected as well? Would you not bet your ass Mr Obama received a preventive injection (and others) of Tamiflu?

So which is it? Either the sky is falling or it is not. Perhaps Mr Biden knows something he's not coming directly out and saying -- intimating that the American public at large should heed his words?

And then, once the words came out of his mouth, the Obama Administration flacks instituted immediate BDC (Biden Damage Control) and began parsing the shit out of his statements.

Yes, we're giving masks to our employees? No, we're not, we don't want to look oppressive and reactionary?

I swear to Christ, you can't write material like this. If it weren't so sad, I'd say the handling of this issue resembles a classic episode of an Our Gang comedy.

BZ

Thanks to TF for the cartoon!