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People waiting to cross into the United States at the San Ysidro port of entry encountered unusually long lines Monday morning, pushing wait times up to three hours.
Many people in Tijuana had the day off Monday as schools and some businesses remained closed as the federal government tried to reduce the spread of the H1N1 flu that has led to at least 2,500 suspected cases and 101 confirmed deaths in the country.
The Baja California government has confirmed 11 cases of the flu in the state.
Many Tijuanans may have decided to cross the border to shop or engage in other recreational activity.
Local traffic reports estimated that around 400 vehicles were waiting to cross per lane, and approximately 900 people were waiting in the pedestrian lanes. The lines of cars stretched to Second Street in downtown, a volume of traffic that usually occurs around the Christmas holiday shopping.
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Vincent Bond, a spokesman for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, said inspectors were doing routine screenings Monday morning.
“We aren't doing anything differently,” he said. “It is just a lot of cars.”
People waiting to cross into the United States at the San Ysidro port of entry encountered unusually long lines Monday morning, pushing wait times up to three hours.
Many people in Tijuana had the day off Monday as schools and some businesses remained closed as the federal government tried to reduce the spread of the H1N1 flu that has led to at least 2,500 suspected cases and 101 confirmed deaths in the country.
The Baja California government has confirmed 11 cases of the flu in the state.
Many Tijuanans may have decided to cross the border to shop or engage in other recreational activity.
Local traffic reports estimated that around 400 vehicles were waiting to cross per lane, and approximately 900 people were waiting in the pedestrian lanes. The lines of cars stretched to Second Street in downtown, a volume of traffic that usually occurs around the Christmas holiday shopping.
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Vincent Bond, a spokesman for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, said inspectors were doing routine screenings Monday morning.
“We aren't doing anything differently,” he said. “It is just a lot of cars.”
What does a government do when it knows that it had bought millions of dollars worth of Tamiflu for an avian flu scare in 1997, and their oversupply is reaching the expiration date?
The answer, Invent a crisis!
Today the swine flu seems not as dangerous as expected as well. Recent 45 cases in a New York school have been ignored by the authorities for long enough to kill off half of NYC but nothing like that happened (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_swine_flu_states - broken link). Not even one of the students died.
We live in hyperreal times as some philosophers and sociologist use to call it. Things that get multiplied by the media seem to be much larger than they are in reality. Larger than life, so to say. Google News listed some 35000 recent stories about swine flu. Swine flu is one of the most popular topics globally for a few days now. Another comparison: Over in Germany they have 5000 dead in car accidents each year. On the other hand they had no terrorism related killings in almost 20 years. Nonetheless the threat of terrorism is omnipresent in all media daily and every years new state laws strip the last remainders of civil liberties we had to protect us from it. Guess what? How many media outlets reported about the car accidents? Just those that write that we had less people killed than last year. Below 5000 this time.
There is big money in swine flu! You might brush off the Tamiflu example I give as one of the many “conspiracy theories”. On the other hand it’s far easier to demonstrate that there is big money in the swine flu business. The Obama administration already applied for a 1.5+ billion dollars swine flu budget, just days and a few cases of it being reported. This number may seem small in times of needy banks getting trillions but it might grow quickly. Who gets the money? Who earns money due to a swine flu scare? Big pharma and government health agencies.
Sorry, but that's just being paranoid. I do agree that lobbyists for pharmaceutical companies have a lot of influence. I mean, if the bank lobbyists own Congress, why wouldn't the pharmaceutical companies have power over them too? Still, to think a flu pandemic was fabricated because we had too much Tamiflu inventory is a bit over-the-top.
Sorry, but that's just being paranoid. I do agree that lobbyists for pharmaceutical companies have a lot of influence. I mean, if the bank lobbyists own Congress, why wouldn't the pharmaceutical companies have power over them too? Still, to think a flu pandemic was fabricated because we had too much Tamiflu inventory is a bit over-the-top.
I'm not saying he's right but we never thought a president would be in bed with unions and own car manufacturers either. The point is it seems nothing is impossible anymore...
I'm not saying he's right but we never thought a president would be in bed with unions and own car manufacturers either. The point is it seems nothing is impossible anymore...
I don't want to go off-topic and bring up other conspiracy theories, but since it was raised here and you wrote "nothing is impossible," why then did so many call the 9/11 conspiricists lunatics? Do you mean "nothing is impossible because Obama is in charge?"
I don't want to go off-topic and bring up other conspiracy theories, but since it was raised here and you wrote "nothing is impossible," why then did so many call the 9/11 conspiricists lunatics? Do you mean "nothing is impossible because Obama is in charge?"
I mean just what I wrote, nothing more, nothing less...
Very mixed messages, new school closings, a new death and then area schools reopening? This sure sounds more economical than anything.
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The point is it seems nothing is impossible anymore...
