Bill Wilson: "Jesus would have closed the MexiMerican border."

Bill Wilson is recently one of my favorite reads. This is not because of anything intelligent he has ever said. It's not because of his innovative use of a limited vocabulary. I think that it has something to do with the way he believes God told him not to use the name Barack Obama in his articles. You see, I look at Christian websites in much the way David Duchovny looks at porn; I have a problem, and the weirder, more bizarre and less coherent a fundie rant becomes, the more turned on I become. I feel so dirty.

Bill penned my favorite response to the flu yet, an ongoing failure to understand public policy, epidemiology and international relations. Truly breathtakingly bad. The first draft of this literary abortion is called: "Government Says No Effort to Stop Swine Flu Through Border Security." It's freaking great! On the 27th, when the article was "published," Bil boldly asserted:

The Federal government is putting Americans at risk by not shutting down the border with Mexico during the swine flu epidemic. The Center for Disease Control says that over 20 Americans in five states are infected.

OK, Bill? That means it's already here. You are showing up late to the goat-fuck, bucko.

Border security is usually equated with undocumented illegals. There is no evidence that undocumented illegals are bringing in the flu.

Shutting down the border is a bad idea for a couple of reasons. 1) Good luck. We haven't been able to do it while we're healthy. Sounds like a huge investment in futility at this point, imagine how that will sap the nation's ability to response when, 2) the flu will come in through any other country that it has already established itself in. It's inevitable. While Bill clutches his stupid hat in his in his end-times bomb shelter loading his khakis in fear, the world goes on. We would have to not only discontinue commerce with Mexico, but with EVERY OTHER NATION ON THE PLANET, YOU SIMP!

Ahem.

Already the World Health Organization has warned countries around the world about the flu, saying the outbreak in Mexico and the United States represents a "public health emergency of international concern." After deliberating for days, the Department of Homeland Security has declared a national health emergency in the United States. The declaration, DHS says, will allow the federal and state governments easier access to flu tests and medications-whatever that means.

Whatever that means? What part of easier access to flu tests and medication do you not understand? They are dispatching medication from the stockpile so that it is on hand when and where it is needed--this is active preparedness.

Roughly 12 million doses of the flu vaccine are being released from federal stockpile.

I have not heard that they are distributing vaccine, which would seem daft to me since it is a new strain for which no vaccine has been yet developed (though they are working on it). For this reason, I suspect that as in so much else in life, Bill, you are just wrong, wrong, wrong about that one.

It is unclear whether the feds will mandate the vaccine be given to the citizenry. Still no word on shutting down the US-Mexico border.

Meanwhile in an unrelated thought...

Yesterday, Bill went completely batshit and pressed his case that...oh, who the fuck cares?

"Federal Government Negligent and Culpable in Swine Flu Deaths" is the title, and even though Bill has had 2 days to reflect on how the flu spreads, he is still a thundering fuckbucket:

The Federal Government should be held accountable in the court of law for deaths of Americans due to the swine flu. Knowing of the disease before it spread to the United States, the Feds failed to shut down the border with Mexico, stop flights from Mexico and quarantine those who had come down with the flu symptoms.

As of today, we would need to shut down all commerce between the US and Mexico, Columbia Chile, Canada (close that border, motherfucker!), New Zealand, Australia, Spain, France, Scotland, England, Denmark, the Czech Republic, and Israel (I'm sure you'd support that last one, Bill! Heheh.) Do you see where this is going? Since you enjoy closing borders so much, why not quarentine Texas (please!), Kansas, California, New York, Indian, Michigan, Ohio, the Carolinas, and New Jersey? Oh, Illinois too. Forgot about Illinois.

So, instead of diverting resources to failing to realize Bill's quixotic dream of universal sterilization, the Feds are deciding to put resources where they would be most usefu: getting resources in place to respond to the inevitable.

Bill quotes CDC head Richard Besser:

"I fully expect we will see deaths from this infection. . . We are dealing with a new strain of influenza, we're dealing with a strain of influenza that appears to be moving through our community."

And he follows up with:

The government refused to take the necessary steps to protect its citizens.

Bill, you badger's pizzle, of course people will die from the flu. We have deaths from all strains of flu. 36,000 people a year die from the flu. It would be unprecedented to not see deaths from this flu.

Napolitano believes because the swine flu was already in the United States in very small numbers, that closing the border down and further isolating the swine flu was a bad idea. Her reasoning is that there is no benefit in closing the border because you can't contain the spread of the disease anyway. That's like having a couple of thieves robbing your house and instead of calling the police, you call the county jail and ask if the sheriff can open the jail and send more thieves to your house. Because of this negligence, many believe the government is purposely allowing the swine flu into the US so it can impose mandatory flu vaccinations on the population. [emphasis added to accentuate the strangeness]

What?!? Are you shitting me? Are you fucking kidding me? When did this become an antivaccination rant? What's your evidence, you fucking wierdo?! What purpose could that possibly serve? Seriously, pull your head out of your ass, Bill.

Somebody cough on Bill, please.

You know what, for his contribution to public policy, I'm awarding Bill Wilson a seat on the Short Bus! You should feel honored, Bill. I usually reserve seats only for people who threaten to sue me. Congrats!


HJ