Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials have ordered that student athletes at a Henry County private school closed because of swine flu not participate in upcoming tournaments.
Tim Dowdy, head of Eagle’s Landing Christian Academy, told WXIA-TV that the track and baseball teams will miss regional and state playoffs scheduled for this week. He said the decision is understandable but “heartbreaking for our students.”
This is all because one student has this swine flu. One student. And only two in Georgia. How about we just Cowboy Up here, people, and realize that no one from the United States has died because of this. It’s a flu. And the weenies at Eagle’s Landing Christian Academy (Mascot: a fuzzy pillow) need to stop wetting their pants over this nonsense and listening to the sensationalist ca-ca from the Centers for Disease Control where the hysteria over this is at a fever pitch.
For example, at a party on Saturday I was talking with a fearless CDC employee who was all concerned about this swine flu and is “in the know.” When I suggested that no one had died from this yet in the U.S. and, in a normal year, 35,000 people die from the flu, a deeply serious look crossed her face and she asked me if I had considered the possibility that the swine flu could revert back to swine from humans and was I ready for the consequences.
“So what if it does,” I asked. She, a CDC person “in the know” regarding this, had no answer.
Let the kids go play their tournaments. And if someone gets the sniffles, use a kleenex. Big freaking deal.
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““So what if it does,” I asked. She, a CDC person “in the know” regarding this, had no answer. ”
Likely because of the sheer stupidity of this question.
“When I suggested that no one had died from this yet in the U.S.”
The fallacious logic! It burns!
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. It is not ELCA that is doing the wrong thing in being cautious and following the guidelines of the CDC but the stupidity of this post on this blog which should be addressed. Calling names and making snide remarks makes you such a big time blogger. I suggest you go to ELCA find someone that has been exposed and suck face with them, and then come back and blog about the size of your balls, walk a mile in their shoes cowboy.
“We now have the capability of incredible war; would you like more murder, more famine, more accidents? Well, here we can see the human dilemma-everything we regard as good makes the population problem worse, everything we regard as bad helps solve the problem. There is a dilemma if ever there was one.” – Dr. Albert Bartlett: Arithmetic, Population and Energy
Shucks H1N1 2009 variant is no worse than regular flu.
Someone has died in the U.S. from this flu. But that aside, I must make a point about your “someone in the know.” If they can’t answer more than two questions deep into a topic, they are obviously not in-the-know. Just because someone is employed by the CDC doesn’t make them an expert in this situation.
And what about the CDC do you have grounds to disagree with so strongly? There is a long history of people disregarding the findings of field experts and getting into bad situations because of it. What credentials do you bring to this argument that I should follow your advice over that of the CDC?
I’m principal of a Christian school, and I see both sides of this. On the one hand, I too think the whole reaction is overblown. Our school normally has 5% absenteeism during flu season. Kids miss school, they come back, sometimes they stay in school and infect others — but it blows over soon. I’m with those who point out the comparisons between H1N1 and the normal flu — much fewer infections, very few deaths, etc.
But there’s the cultural hysteria that has grown up now. If our school had a child get infected with H1N1, we would probably close as well, just because we would end up with many, many families keeping their children home anyway. “A child in 3rd grade has swine flu? I’m not sending my 10th grader back to that school until the whole threat has passed and the school is thoroughly disinfected.” Irrational? Yes. But that’s the reality school administrators have to face. We can close school for the recommended time, and then get back to “normal” operations, or we can keep school open and have 20-40% absenteeism – not due to sickness but due to fear of infection. It’s more prudent in that case to go ahead and close. So I understand where ELCA is coming from, while I disagree with the general attitude about the problem.
It’s a good thing that no one reacts so shockingly to say, Tuberculosis.
Hell, if taken to the same extreme paranoia as the swine flu has caused, no one would ever inhale again.
On second thought, I have a long list of people who should try that.
Why does this remind me of this story.
Kent Hovind talks to a professor
I think I already had the swine flu (fever, nausea, diahreah, vomiting) but not sure. It could have been ebola for all I know. I heard the best way to get rid of swine flu is give it to 100 people. Didn’t that Ozmond kid make a movie about this?
“What credentials do you bring to this argument that I should follow your advice over that of the CDC?”
Because we’re dealing with Rogue who is quite possibly more arrogant and filled with more bravado than SpaceyG.
He’s never wrong.
Get with the program.
These kids will grow up to run blogs and get elected to city councils
CDC docs see all the vast government money paying $1,125,000 bonuses at AIG and want a similar stipend.
Extortion is now the American pastime.
Swine Flu? The ‘cure’ is to be found in more money for the human hogs.
“CDC docs see all the vast government money paying $1,125,000 bonuses at AIG and want a similar stipend.
Extortion is now the American pastime.”
You do know that there are limits to how much federal government employees get paid and CDC doctors pay scale maxes out around $1 million less than that, don’t you?
Yes, but what GS level is an AIG derivatives creator?
That is a question the CDC’ers are asking. (and so is everyone else, to some degree.)
If stopping financial devastation is worth $1,125,000 BONUS, they figure human devastation just has to be worth more…..
Heck, I can’t a
I can’t argue…….such a reaction was totally predictable when these insane bailouts began,
“Heck, I can’t a ”
We’ve always known Indy was going to stroke-out right in the middle of one of his posts.
Somehow the thing posted without hitting enter, but then I am fumble fingered.
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