Swine Flu, that is.
President Barack Obama declared the swine flu outbreak a national emergency, giving his health chief the power to let hospitals move emergency rooms offsite to speed treatment and protect noninfected patients.
The official position is that this is a “pre-emptive move designed to make decisions easier when they need to be made.”
If you really want a scare, try reading some time about the vast powers the government gets during certain crises. (Suspending Habeas Corpus, etc.)
But I’m not in the tinfoil hat mood today. So I’ll take the government at its word that this is a normal administrative process, and that there’s nothing to fear.
I did, however, want to pose a question that The Wife® and I were discussing today:
If the President of the United States were to contract H1N1, would the government disclose that information to the people? What if it was a member of the first family, but not the President himself? Would the Bush administration handle this differently than the Obama administration?
Discuss.
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The Obama administration promised more transparency, so clearly the answer is “yes.”
President Bush was evil so clearly he would have done whatever was the most wrong.
Case. Closed.