Right wing stirring the swine flu shitpot?

[chimpyisstillsatan]

Anyone else get the feeling that the building hysteria on swine flu will be driven from the right, and that it's a willing attempt to foment fear and instability in the economy for political gains?

Watch Drudge et al. to see this one "develop" in real time. These people are avarice personified.

[babylonsister]

1. Watch drudge? EPIC FAIL!

:rofl:

[backscatter712]

2. Just checked out the Sludge Report...

You're right...

There's about a dozen swine-flu related headlines there, and the big one is "MEXICO CITY CANCELS ALL PUBLIC EVENTS".

[MadMaddie]

6. Mexico actually did cancel all public events

I think they were even having a soccer game and they won't let any fans come to the stadium. It's farely standard for outbreaks.

But I do agree the Right wing is trying to cause mass hysteria.

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. But they did cancel public events

and closed museums, and other public places

And enacted a disaster plan...

[backscatter712]

21. Yeah, I'm not saying the story's not true...

I'm just saying the right-wing's using it to stir up hysteria.

[Tarheel_Dem]

3. While I won't be watching Drudge, I can see this being used as a..

wedge for those who hate brown people.

[Joe the Revelator]

5. or New Yorkers

You can't be serious with your post, right?

[Tarheel_Dem]

10. I am quite serious. People in border towns will become even more

ugly than before. Remember, it doesn't take much to turn people against one another in this country. If people think they might be in the company of a brown person who may possibly be carrying a highly contagious and deadly disease, we may see some of the same ignorance we saw in the 80's.

[nadinbrzezinski]

12. True for up to two weeks ago

we now have two more clusters, one in Kansas and the other in NYC

That potential will go away soon

[Joe the Revelator]

13. You're right....lets not take tried and true steps to stop an outbreak

Its better if it kills 5-7% of the worlds population in the name of not offending anyone.

[Tarheel_Dem]

17. I'm sorry, but I don't know what the hell you're talking about, and I suspect...

neither do you. Nowhere in my post did I say that we shouldn't take the needed steps to quell this pandemic, but I've lived long enough to know the peculiarities of human nature. I lived through the ugliness, when AIDS first made national news, and I know that when people become panicked, they can be quite unreasonable & discriminatory, even if they're "good" people.

[Joe the Revelator]

18. Self Delete

not an argument worth having at 3am

[Tarheel_Dem]

31. Look at this thread. This is precisely what I was talking about.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5539110

[Joe the Revelator]

32. Its a newsflash that the idiots at freerepublic are idiots?

Come on, they can politicize whatever they want. They are a small and increasingly marginalized segment of society. That doesn't mean if we had known about this sooner that we SHOULD have shut down borders in order to contain the disease if possible.

[Tarheel_Dem]

33. I am not disagreeing with your larger point, but take another look at the o.p.

I think my original post was in keeping with the topic at hand. Sorry, Joe, I think we're in the same place on this, but having worked in the healthcare field for the past 31 years, I know from whence I speak. Panic can make the most sane people act in the most insane ways.

[Jeep789]

26. So true. nt

[BlooInBloo]

4. I see plenty of flu shit-stirring here.

[DainBramaged]

25. Yup, lots and it's being ignored.

Say did you know over half a million people died from tobacco use last year? Why aren't those same people up in arms over that?

[elocs]

7. Yes, the same shitpot is being stirred here at DU also. n/t

[chimpyisstillsatan]

8. True, I hadn't looked carefully. CALM DOWN PEOPLE

[MilesColtrane]

11. It's also the top story on the Huffington Post.

Are they in on it too?

[Joe the Revelator]

14. damn left wing conspiracies

[depakid]

15. But there's actually a very interesting aritcle on the site re: factory farms

Swine Flu Outbreak -- Nature Biting Back at Industrial Animal Production?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-kirby/swine-flu-outbreak----nat_b_191408.html

Probably deserves its own thread after the histrionics have calmed down.

[emilyg]

16. Leading story on BBC.

I'm paying attention.

[Bluebear]

19. Is the Boston Globe part of your right wing "shitstorm"?

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2009/04/26/global_alarm_at_swine_flu_outbreak/

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[Bluebear]

23. see mail

[chimpyisstillsatan]

22. and no, I don't trust the NYT companies

I remember their Clinton era "journalism" and their Iraq war lies all too well.

[cliffordu]

24. Root with the pigs, smell like swine.

[Raine]

27. Yes, they are hoping this thing is big

so they can use it against Obama, they have actually said so on some of their sites.

[Kablooie]

28. Umm ... it's the FLU folks. You feel bad, you get better. The FLU not the plague.

[cascadiance]

29. Uh oh... They'll say its the first stages of the rapture coming...

and other "constructive" notions that can't be discussed rationally...

[rhett o rick]

30. Well at least we are prepared. The republiCons were good enough to build concentration camps for

quarantining the sick masses. Or interment camps, or maybe a new name...."wellness camps". You heard it here first.