Main stream media is breathlessly reporting that New Jersey Governor "sit down and shut up!" Christie, along with Maine Governor "I'm cancelling my re-election campaign events to keep an eye on a healthy woman going for a bike ride" Le Page, and others, are making plans to ensure American's safety and health during this year's Flu Season.
Christie, Le Page, et al. want their voters to know that they will leave no stone unturned in their fight against the Flu.
Plans are being made to close schools, businesses, and to quarantine health care workers who have worked with Flu patients. Students who have been exposed to the Flu will also be quarantined at home. So will their parents. Where possible State police will be posted outside affected businesses, schools, and homes to enforce the quarantines.
However, due to budget cuts there are not enough State troopers for everyone so the Governors' are relying on neighborhood patrols to ensure that people are complying with quarantine orders. Neighborhood patrols will be given face masks, shiny badges, and the certainty that they are saving man kind.
Unfortunately given that the Flu affects millions of people each year, State Troopers will no longer be able to patrol the roads, or protect communities.
Since the Flu is far more infectious than Ebola, anyone seen sneezing or coughing will be immediately put under house arrest....um...quarantined at home.
The American Medical Association has issued a statement taking issue with the Governors' heroic stance. The AMA states that unscientifically based quarantine orders would prevent Health Care workers from treating patients. Governors Le Page and Christie issued a joint statement saying that they know more than medical professionals and that we must be vigilant. Their statement closed with encouraging Americans to continue to "Be afraid! Be very afraid."
The Congressional Budget Office has also estimated that such measures will crash the economy due to the number of closed businesses and people unable to work.
But our brave and intrepid Governors see no choice when the threat of the Flu hangs like the sword of Damocles over so many of our people.
They insist that, just as with the Ebola freakout pandemic, all measures must be taken to save people from being exposed to the Flu - whether those measures make sense or not. Governor Le Page, dressed as a Jedi Knight destroying Ebola (sorry...the Flu virus) with his light saber, and Governor Christie, costumed as a giant mouth masticating the Flu virus into oblivion, passed out Halloween candy to terrified children. Both Governors strongly recommended that everyone get a Flu shot and carry proof of having been given the Flu Vaccine with them at all times.
Questions about funding for an adequate Flu Vaccine supply were not answered.
Budget cuts for the Center for Disease Control and the National Institutes of Health that prevented an Ebola vaccine from being created years ago, have not been mentioned.
NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, MSNBC, Fox and print media will bring you moment by moment coverage. Look for live reports outside your local school, small business, your neighbor's home or perhaps, god forbid, even yours!
Because no story is illogical or blown out of proportion enough in America! We love being afraid and being told what do to! It's the new American way!
Election day is next Tuesday, a mere five days away. If you're as sick and tired of this idiocy as I am, if our kids and grand kids matter to you, if this beautiful blue world matters, if you'd like to have the CDC and NIH properly funded, if your very right to vote matters - please vote and help get out the vote. Each vote matters greatly. Thank you.
Any help you can give to send Le Page packing and elect Mike Michaud Governor of Maine is greatly deeply appreciated.
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