The Hill 4/27/09;
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano
defended the government's response at a press conference Monday afternoon as reporters asked her about the risk of asymptomatic swine flu carriers entering the country.
Napolitano said that we are already identifying, detaining and isolating those who seem ill and try to cross into the United States. We're doing passive surveillance at the border and vigorously giving out yellow cards explaining the signs of swine flu and instructions on what to do about it in multiple foreign languages, including Pig-Latin, as a reporter asked if closure of the border had been considered.
Napolitano snorted "you would close the border if you thought you could contain the spread of disease, but the disease already is in a number of states within the United States so “what the heck” there goes the old “close the border strategy”. Rather we feel that we can stop any pending pandemic by issuing new color code alerts and relying on people to make the right decisions. Napolitano identified the new Pending Pandemic Color Adjusted Code Alerts as, “Strawberry (bad shit), Chocolate (so-so), and Vanilla (good shit)”. The new alerts will be referred to in the Homeland Security Intelligence circle by the code name of “Pee-Pee-Ca-Ca”.
Napolitano said this new strategy is a bi-partisan work product of our great Washington think tank and she is as confident of it working as she is confident that the 9-11 hijackers crossed the Canadian border and our returning troops may be right wing terrorists.
She also reminded people that if they felt sick to stay home from work and eat lots of chicken soup.
Blog comment; ….and what’s up with our latest Presidents?….
Hurricane Katrina = G.W.B. went to the ranch.
Swine Flu outbreak = B.O. went golfing.
(Sorry to tell you this pal but if this thing takes off, it will be 1000 times worse than Katrina).

