Swine Flu EMERGENCY PANIC Declared by Paterson

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By Roy Edroso, Thursday, Oct. 29 2009 @ 2:48PM

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Categories: Featured, Medical

Though the CDC has stopped collecting swine-flu-specific info from states, Governor Paterson has apparently seen enough, including 75 s-f deaths since this whole PANIC kicked off, and has declared a swine flu emergency. What does that mean? The state will start allowing less-qualified medical and quasi-medical personnel -- yes, even dentists -- to administer the vaccine. And the Health Department can order more doses from the Feds -- not that it'll necessarily do any good, and the government is short on vaccine.

As President Obama already declared a national emergency last Friday, this puts us on double secret emergency PANIC. Citizens are encouraged to avoid all human contact (for bloggers, a snap!) and to practice Purell neti.