No N.C. swine flu cases, but officials preparing

[nadinbrzezinski]

The suspected cases are a small number of people in the state who are sick with flu-like illnesses and have traveled recently, mostly to Mexico, Engel said. Those people have not been hospitalized but are being kept isolated in their homes.

http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20090427/ARTICLES/904279972/1177?Title=No-N-C-swine-flu-cases-but-officials-preparing

Now let me translate this

People are now being kept in mandatory home bound isolation

Standard, but this means that we are starting to ramp up the efforts to stem this

(and for those civil libertarians, they have no right to do this... yes, yes they)

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. important

[kestrel91316]

2. If they tested those people, they wouldn't have to confine them once

results came in (assuming negative). They DO know to TEST for swine flu in NC, right? Please tell me they know to do this and have a system and funds in place. Because quarantining without testing is crual and stupid in 2009.

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. Paper does not say

I suspect they are sending all tests to CDC in Atlanta, and preemptively you can order quarantine BEFORE you get the results

May seem cruel, but every plan to deal with this has it... for good reason

And... the authority came from the national declaration on Sunday

[hedgehog]

3. Remember this guy?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18936405/

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. Yep and Rachel's images of Mexico City are UNREAL

and they cancelled Sunday Mass? WOW

By the way, HE IS the poster boy for this ahem, authority