A River of Stupidity Coming From the Mouth of the Vice President

VP: Make sure that you don't take the subway to Mexico; but there is no need to close the border or halt flights from Mexico, keep the borders wide open, but close the schools, don't fly, don't ride the subway, don't stay in confined spaces unless you want to fly in from Mexico City, or if you want and come across the border no problem but close the schools... Huh? Possibly the dumbest man in North America speaks:

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Update: Biden backtracks.
Update: Here is White House spokesman Gibbs explaining what Biden "MEANT TO SAY", during his daily briefing with the press, who crack up laughing. Even the Obama worshiping press are stumped on this one.

US Continues to Stall on Swine Flue Action

As of this moment, all traces of swine flu in the US can be traced back to Mexico, yet the borders with Mexico continue to remain wide open, Flights from Mexico continue to arrive and all passengers continue to enter the US unscreened. The Obama administration remains without a Secretary for Health and Human Services, it remains without a Surgeon General, it remains without a Director for the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there is no chief for the Food and Drug Administration, and the President openly says that Swine Flu is "not a cause for alarm." The United States calls European travel warnings to the United States "unwarranted" and an "overreaction".

It is hard to escape the impression that either politics is playing a larger role here than public health, or the media are simply blowing this out of proportion. The Obama administration better hope that this virus doesn't have legs because if it spreads as feared, people are going to remember this early vacillation and failure to act when it was still possible.

Felipe Solis Who Greeted Obama In Mexico City, Shook Hands with the President and Droped Dead of Swine Flu-like Syptoms The Next Day

Bloomberg is reporting that on April 16. Obama was received at Mexico’s anthropology museum in Mexico City by Felipe Solis, a distinguished archaeologist. The following day, Felipe Solis died of flu-like symptoms. President Obama is not displaying any symptoms but the coincidence is chilling.

Mexico seems to be taking every possible responsible step to try to contain this, including declaring a national emergency, closing schools and all public events. For that they deserve to be commended. The same cannot be said about US actions: Why is the US border with Mexico still open? Why are passengers coming in on flights from Mexico not screened for the virus? Why has the Obama administration failed to take a single preemptive action and is reacting to events rather than being preemptive? Wouldn't prudence dictate that the border be closed until the situation is clarified? Or do we wait until the pandemic spreads and then take that action after it's too late? Every case in the US and around the world is traced back to Mexico so far. Why wait? What exact number of infections in the US will justify closing the border? 100? 1,000? 100,000? 1,000,000? It's hard to take the warning seriously when the most basic steps like closing the border are not being taken at this early stage. Should this thing spread throughout the US via Mexico, people will look back on this moment and remember that the US could have taken preemptive action when only a dozen infections have been detected in the US, and chose not to act.
The daily scene at the Tijuana crossing into the San Diego area: