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piratefish08 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-26-09 02:23 PM Original message |
Yet another fucked up freeper strategy -"Refer to the flu outbreak as Mexican Flu" |
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dem629 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-26-09 02:25 PM Response to Original message |
1. Would there never be a time for closing the borders? |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-26-09 02:29 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. Makes little difference.. |
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dem629 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-26-09 02:31 PM Response to Reply #4 |
7. I don't mean just the southern border. |
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originalpckelly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-26-09 02:26 PM Response to Original message |
2. Isn't it odd how it was referred to as the Spanish flu last time? |
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tocqueville (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-26-09 03:01 PM Response to Reply #2 |
15. see post below and link |
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NutmegYankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-26-09 02:27 PM Response to Original message |
3. I figured it would be called the Mexican Flu anyhow. |
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sam sarrha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-26-09 02:29 PM Response to Original message |
5. it is usually named for where it originated.. Mexico.. apparently, not spain |
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Hello_Kitty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-26-09 02:30 PM Response to Original message |
6. How do freepers reconcile their hatred of immigrants with their love of cheap labor? eom |
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Turbineguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-26-09 02:33 PM Response to Reply #6 |
9. By insisting |
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11 Bravo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-26-09 04:19 PM Response to Reply #9 |
32. And voting for candidates who will ensure that comes to pass. |
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Parker CA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-26-09 02:32 PM Response to Original message |
8. From the copied text in the OP "self | ChiefJayStrongbow " ?? |
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dem629 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-26-09 02:36 PM Response to Original message |
10. If you think THAT's crazy, check out this wacko reply in that thread... |
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burning rain (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-26-09 03:18 PM Response to Reply #10 |
21. Definitely one of the nuttier ones. |
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adiabatic (59 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-26-09 04:14 PM Response to Reply #10 |
30. With a few minor changes that post would be indistinguishable from many on DU |
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jules4truth (24 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-26-09 02:52 PM Response to Original message |
11. Anyone find the rapid spread a bit odd? |
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dem629 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-26-09 02:55 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. No. |
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NutmegYankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-26-09 03:09 PM Response to Reply #11 |
19. Not with modern transportation. n/t |
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Jim Pivonka (56 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-26-09 03:25 PM Response to Reply #11 |
23. Baxter stands to make $ Billions on this one AND.... |
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mshasta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-26-09 10:07 PM Response to Reply #23 |
38. look a this news |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-26-09 02:53 PM Response to Original message |
12. Well on the bright side |
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tocqueville (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-26-09 02:59 PM Response to Original message |
14. actually the Spanish flu of 1918 |
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amandabeech (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-26-09 11:35 PM Response to Reply #14 |
40. However, the media hype about the flu came from Spain when the virus reached there. |
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Jim Pivonka (56 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-26-09 03:01 PM Response to Original message |
16. Refer to the hybrid flu as the Fort Detrick flu |
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pink-o (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-26-09 03:03 PM Response to Original message |
17. It was just a matter of time. You could smell the racism in the MSM reporting. |
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Avalux (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-26-09 03:06 PM Response to Original message |
18. Shit. This is NOT a political problem. |
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sam sarrha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-26-09 04:00 PM Response to Reply #18 |
27. it's documented that migrating birds infected by farms carry it when they migrate.. |
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Jim Pivonka (56 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-26-09 03:17 PM Response to Original message |
20. Obama's Mexican Arcaeology host died of flu |
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sam sarrha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-26-09 03:57 PM Response to Reply #20 |
25. 2 Children in san diego ca diagnosed with it 3- 9-09 |
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KamaAina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-26-09 05:55 PM Response to Reply #20 |
35. Other reports indicate Felipe Solis died of a heart attack |
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Joe the Revelator (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-26-09 03:18 PM Response to Original message |
22. The RW is stupid and become smaller by the day....don't let them turn this into a political issue |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-26-09 03:30 PM Response to Original message |
24. The xenophobic assholes will probably make this one stick |
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sam sarrha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-26-09 05:31 PM Response to Reply #24 |
34. The fact that Baxter mixed and sent the deadly H5N1 virus with a mix of H3N2 to 18 labs world >link |
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mshasta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-26-09 10:53 PM Response to Reply #34 |
39. ...baxter is going to make billions from the mexicans |
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Renew Deal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-26-09 03:59 PM Response to Original message |
26. And what do we do about this assholes kid who went to Cancun? |
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Earth_First (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-26-09 04:07 PM Response to Original message |
28. They already spew their xenophobic tirades by calling the "illegals" 'swine' |
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Cha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-26-09 04:08 PM Response to Original message |
29. They don't want it named |
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11 Bravo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-26-09 04:17 PM Response to Original message |
31. Yeah, and Native Americans can call syphillis and smallpox the white asshole's disease. |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-26-09 04:19 PM Response to Original message |
33. It's the Kiwi Flu! |
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drchoice22 (76 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-26-09 08:45 PM Response to Original message |
36. Apparently nobody wants to waste a good emergency |
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Catherine Vincent (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-26-09 08:53 PM Response to Original message |
37. I visit the city-data boards and I just saw a thread that called it the "Mexican Swine Flu" |
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