[I]One 2007 study by the Brookings Institution estimated, for example, that a[U] [B]95%[/B][/U] reduction in U.S. air travel would cost the economy $100 billion [B][U]a year[/U][/B].[/I]links are helpful
I inverted the numbers. Oops.
My point remains. Closing the border won’t do a thing except cost money. And it really has little to do with helping the Dems pick up seats.
My friend and I are going to Vegas/Grand Canyon via Texas. So I am a little concerned about it.
I inverted the numbers. Oops.My point remains. Closing the border won’t do a thing except cost money. And it really has little to do with helping the Dems pick up seats.
However, use of exaggeration score something like ID 8, Cass 1. i have a ways to go :biggrin:
[QUOTE=ninerID;405384]so there is no difference in a 5% reduction and a 95% reduction?[/QUOTE]
haha, you missed my sarcasm!!!
If you click on the link and zoom to the whole world, highlight over each case. Common thread is that the people who have it were in.....MEXICO. I am not saying it could be contained, hell I don't even think it is as bad as everyone thinks, as it hasn't killed anyone who is not from a third world country. I am sure it will move around the world anyway, i mean most viruses do, but if we slow it even a little it allows more time for scientists to come up with ways to combat it.Yeah, but my point was that Mexico was and is not closing its borders to all other countries. So even though it is the source, the new sources will now be other parts of the world, which we'd have to close off too. The rate at which people travel nowadays combined with the speed that flu can spread from person-to-person means that preventing Mexican travel to the US might slow it getting here by a week or so. Now if Mexico had shut down all of its borders, then maybe it makes a difference for longer time periods. But good luck asking them to kill their economy (do you think we would shut all of our international travel down if an epidemic originated here in the US?).
This is why complaining about US officials not shutting our border with Mexico makes no sense to me. And we’d have had to do it before we really knew if it was going to be a pandemic (there likely were cases already that just hadn’t been diagnosed). I just don’t see that happening regardless of which party is in control of the government.
[URL]http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D981HHTO3&show_article=1[/URL]
2 billion people could get it if it broke to a pandemic?
wash your hands
WHO now investigating claims by someone associated with the maker of Tamiflu that H1N1 was “man made”:
http://www.dancewithshadows.com/pillscribe/h1n1-swine-flu-virus-is-a-man-made-product-claims-scientist/
Obama administration may ask americans to get THREE flu shots this fall:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20090506/hl_hsn/obamaadministrationmightrecommendthreeflushotsforamericansthisfall
are you kidding me? 3 flu shots?
[QUOTE=ninerID;408154]are you kidding me? 3 flu shots?[/QUOTE]
Do you want to have Swine Flu symptoms this fall?
