As someone who lives in a border state with lots of Mexican nationals traveling through and a teacher who deals with kids who are germ factories in themselves, indulge my thoughts just a minute:
First of all, why didn’t the CDC issue the warnings around 50 deaths ago? Or would that have embarrassed the President who was in Mexico City at that time? If they chose keeping a political moment alive over the safety of Americans, then there is some explaining to do.
Secondly, the administration may be deliberately choosing to undercut the severity of the situation because this simply further highlights why the borders must be better controlled. Team Obama doesn’t like that and if he takes any measures to make Mexico accountable, the usual Hispanic PAC’s will come out to remonstrate him.
Third, here in the DFW area-heck in all of the border states for that matter-there are many service companies that hire workers with very little due diligence. These workers are sometimes Hispanic. And sometimes they go home for holidays. Given the origination point of this outbreak, don’t you think it would be prudent to take a survey and see who visited home in say, the last six weeks? And if you don’t think that’s important, consider this-companies like Aramark and others work in food services and custodial work in hospitals, businesses and public schools.
Finally, while this may not be the pandemic per se, it could be a type of trial. The nature of the virus is somewhat suspicious. You would have to look long and hard to find a virus that has bird, human and swine flu attributes. What worries me is that this is a dry run for some other event. And if that’s the case, it’s been proven that our borders are porous, that distribution is viable and that we are a target.
You can downplay this if you want, but if Team Obama doesn’t learn from incidents such as this, then we will be attacked again. What better time than now to make sure we are doing all we can. Except of course, that the politicians won’t let us….
