Homeland Security advisory re: swine flu

[uppityperson]

http://www.nationalterroralert.com/updates/2009/04/24/swine-flu-news-updates/

-Stock up on Spam and store it under your easy chair
-Buy stock in Spam company
-Don't panic
-Wash your hands often
-If you feel sick, stay home
-If you feel very sick, call 911
-Don't forget the Spam

Actually, they have a compilation of news article on that page, including "Schwarzenegger has ‘rigorous’ plan.."

[elocs]

1. Rinse and repeat. n/t

[panader0]

2. Swine flu and 9/11 in the same post?

IBTL!

[uppityperson]

10. have had this out with MrUP. It is 9-1-1, NOT 9-11, there is NO 11 on the phone

would've been nice if they'd picked another day

[cwydro]

3. Duct tape and plastic wrap.

Very important items.

[luvspeas]

4. NOOOOOO - DON"T EAT THE SPAM!!!

Spam is a canned precooked meat product made by the Hormel Foods Corporation. The labeled ingredients in the classic variety of Spam are: chopped pork shoulder meat with ham meat added, salt, water, sugar, and sodium nitrite to help keep its color. Spam's gelatinous glaze, or aspic, forms from the cooling of meat stock.<1> The product has become part of many jokes and urban legends about mystery meat, which has made it part of pop culture and folklore.

[uppityperson]

9. EXACTLY!!! GET THE SWINE BEFORE THEY GET YOUUUUUU!!!!!!!111111

And under the chair. That is important, since the space under your bed is probably still full of tuna and powdered milk from the avian flu preparation.

[hedgehog]

5. I thought it was tuna fish?

[hedgehog]

6. Seriously - what is that site? It's not .gov.

[uppityperson]

8. You are right, it is just some odd/off place I found with a really cool logo thingie

which I can't copy. Here is DHS website: http://www.dhs.gov/index.shtm

Only thing I can find there is this pdf http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/DHS_Daily_Report_2009-04-24.pdf

April 21, CNN – (California) CDC: Swine flu seen in 2 California children. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is investigating two cases of swine flu detected in children in the San Diego, California, area last week. Swine flu is caused by a virus similar to the regular flu virus that circulates in people every year, but is a strain that is typically found only in pigs or in people who have direct contact with pigs. The children were infected with a virus known as swine influenza A H1N1, which has a unique combination of genes not previously seen in flu viruses in either humans or swine — although it shares similarities with a virus that has been circulating in pigs since 1999. Typically one person in the United States is infected with swine flu every one to two years, although there have been 12 cases in the three-year period between December 2005 and January 2009. Most of the time, people who get sick from swine flu have been in contact with pigs, and the virus does not spread from person to person. Since neither of the two children, a 10-year-old boy and a 9-year-old girl, had contact with pigs, it “increases the possibility that human-to-human transmission of this new influenza virus has occurred,” according to a CDC report.
Source: http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/04/22/swine.flu.california/

[arcadian]

7. Is the threat level at [[[RED]]] yet? I want to see chunks of burning concrete falling from the sky.