Let's talk Swine Flu, shall we?

So Oconomowoc has canceled classes for many of it's schools due to the Swine Flue, or the H1N1 virus as some prefer to call it. Don't want to offend the pigs, you know. The goal is to localize any swine flu that the poor High Schooler may have spread. Does this seem logical to ANYONE other than those on the board? Exactly how is this localizing it? By guaranteeing these kids? You were 16 once. Think back...If you had off of school for an entire week, did you sit home, itching your ass and catching up on reading? No. Now these kids are going to the malls and theaters, restaurants and other hangouts instead. So instead of containing the virus in the school, they are spreading it throughout the community. Keep your kids home if you wish, but that should be your decision as a parent and hopefully you'll be there to make sure they keep their butts at home. Instead, the school board made the decision for these parents and now families are scrambling trying to figure out how to deal with it. My guess is most parents aren't taking off work to enforce the quarantine...they can't. Most parents need to work to pay the bills. Therefore, over 1,000 kids are out and about. Brings a new definition to "quarantine", doesn't it?

I'm not a cold hearted bitch. I swear I'm not. I feel for those people who have died from SF complications. But let's be realistic here... most of them live in low-income, overpopulated areas in Mexico. Many kids have never even seen a vaccination for whooping cough or measles. So why should it surprise anyone that the flu ran so rampant there? Sure, it spread to bigger, more modernized areas of Mexico as it ran it's course, but fact still remains that most people who fell the most ill lacked resources to care for themselves.

Hundreds, potentially, dead in Mexico due to Swine Flu. US Deaths = One, and that's even debatable because the poor girl was a Mexican citizen and reports are surfacing that she was visiting South Texas. We're not dropping like flies here. The strain's symptoms are less than many flu bugs we see yearly. Be smart and wash your hands.... Good Hygiene wins again!

People think the health care in America is an abomination and they want socialized medicine to fix it. Mexico has socialized medicine. Hell yeah, obviously it's a much better alternative, Devil Woman Clinton.