Tuesday, July 21, 2009

BA and Virgin to stop suspected swine flu victims from flying

Pig in a mask



 

Passengers with swine flu will be stopped from boarding flights, two major airlines confirmed today, as the Department of Health warned tourists who contract the illness abroad not to travel home until their symptoms have gone.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/19/swine-flu-british-airways-virgin

15 comments:

  1. "Both British Airways and Virgin Atlantic said they had provided check-in staff and cabin crew with guidance on how to act if they believe a passenger is unwell. Medical advice would be taken to assess the condition of passengers exhibiting symptoms, including having a headache, sore throat, runny nose, and aching muscles."

    "Virgin Atlantic said those suffering from the condition would be prevented from flying until they could provide a fit-to-fly certificate from their doctor or a hospital."

    I have to wonder how they are going to determine who has aching muscles and sore throat? How will they differentiate someone sneezing from allergies and someone sneezing from cold or flu?

    I guess next, they will submit everyone to a physical before they get on an airplane. They are using this lab created flu to take away any freedoms we have left just as they used the inside job of 9/11 to get the ball rolling. Just another way to treat we the people like cattle in the chute waiting for slaughter.

    Papers please.

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  2. however..if the usa/mexico govts had banned airtravel, borders, and sea etc, for just 4 weeks, a hell of a lot of the countries affected now, would not be!
    If the general mass would be intelligent and thoughtful enough to stay isolated willingly and voluntarily, there'd be no need for any of this.
    Simply, if I could afford to fly, I still would NOT be doing so, due to the confined recycled air and close contact. ditto train or longdistance bus travel.
    As for the much touted Pandemic and disaster training your government is supposed to have all worked out.. ha ha ha etc.
    its about as effective as the mad cow, bovine johnes, and brucellosis efforts that do ..exactly No Thing at all to stop or deter the spread.
    and on the subject
    I consider ours here in Aus is marginally better , but still way slack, as evidenced by tour ships being allowed to dock and disembark!
    they may? just? cope with foot n mouth..cos they can shoot all animals in a masive area.
    with humans..aw well...not allowed (yet)

    so back to the subject, the airlines should not be needing to take this step,
    the fact that they are?
    shows that they are actually doing what the people/sheeple if they had any IQ or social responsibility at all, would do.
    Imagine you are a hostess, baggage handler whatever, and you must work, yet people with a known nasty illness , risk your health daily.
    hell, the jobs bad enough anyway! without this added risk. doctors are diagnosing by phone!!!
    people are told to not even go to hospital until critical..
    ALL but the most urgent world travel should be stopped till it settles. and really most business can be done on net/phone anyway.
    tourism? hell of a waste of fuel and resources, and people waiting on others has never been high in my world view,
    and I worked in Hos (tility )pitality trades for a while.
    think, if all travel had been ceased immediately?
    many nations would still have no flu. and would,nt that! have screwed the WHO Baxter and cronies right up. No Pandemic would have existed!

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  3. That was kinda my thought when I read this. I said, "Ok, here we go, now they're giving the waitstaff in the sky police powers too..."

    I've got a sleuth of information on this not sure if I should posted including how the pharmaceuticals had the vaccine before the outbreak...hmmm...

    We're not headed in the right direction for sure.

    See, it was this kind of information that I was trying to post before I was censored into silence. I figure, I pick up the news, post them and let you guys decide for yourself what it all means, instead of me, spoonfeeding it to you or give you my take, there's enough of that going around already and, hell, even if I post something from the corporate media, y'all can read between the lines and see the truth.

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  4. Oz:

    Do you know that here in the US, many of the states have adopted a law called "lights on, wipers on" meaning that if the weather is so bad that you need to have your wipers on (because of rain or snow), it also means that you should have your headlights on? Well, if you don't, you can get ticketed (although I really haven't heard of anyone being fined because of it). However, the bottom line is that there are cases, like this, where people's stupidity forces the government to take matters into their own hands so that they can protect the idiots who don't have common sense to begin with. So, here ye go! This could very well be one of those cases...

    Anyway, I heard that New Zealand is now a little closer to you, eh? At that rate, pretty soon, you'll be able to borrow a cup of sugar from your neighbor in NZ just by sticking your head out the kitchen window...ha ha!

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  5. Yea SB, but it's so much better when you offer your spicy introduction and commentary with the article ;)

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  6. Oz, I agree. I hate it when people come to work and sneeze and cough all over the place. Especially the ones that don't cover their mouths and use tissues!

    But i see a broader more sinister reason for all of this as I stated above. This flu was lab created, not natural. They want this pandemic and they want the mandatory flu shots produced by Baxter.

    But hey, that's just my own paranoid take.

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  7. sisterb, yes we have similar guidelines, mainly signage in areas of fog etc. and its amazing how many will NOT lightup and are in dark or silver cars that vanish in a fog.
    Same as total cretins who dive into shallow water and then cry foul and try and claim damages.
    same mob that make a hue and cry and lawmakers cash in on the pR for votes, and majority suffer for it.
    you cannot legislate for stupidity, or you end up with a nanny state,
    we have it now.
    horse riding is a case, since a massive payout, most schools closed down due to huge insurance fees, and so now we already have 70% drop at least, in young people learning about handling animals, care, and pleasure of going out for a ride.
    A small number of people fell off pushbikes and had brain injury, now we all! have to wear helmets. so, many stopped riding- as it is beyond belief irritating to have these huge foam lined helmets in 40C weather, and they are a dud in the wet weather too.
    I like the Darwin Awards...we let the dumb do what they do best, kill themselves! with our blessing, and we do not overprotect the rest.
    Society survives, the fools do not. wonderful!

    as to NZ yeah 30cm closer, most of em are over here anyway...or so tis said.

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  8. Sb.. just the other day it was a torrential downpour here and dark as hell. Most everyone had their lighs on but there were those few cars that were black or gray of course. that didn't bother to flick that little switch. You couldn't see them until they were on top of you.

    Let me tell ya, it was hell trying to make a left hand turn out of the office parking lot that day!

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  9. fully agree on motive and source, except i belive still! that Novavax started it, see barbs farmwars on bioterrorism under Amicus.
    again the fact that government cdc did F/all shows they want it worldwide asap and they got it.
    airlines are shutting gate after the horse is at the knackers, not just bolted.
    on amicus downunder I have article on the supposed aussie vaccine, thats a usa company using us idiots as a fall guy!

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  10. And NJ is one of those states that has the 'wipers on, lights on' law and, as we know, them state troopers ain't kind to their own mothers...

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  11. I'm originally from Philly and the troopers are the ones in the car with you when you take your driver's test. I flunked the first time because of it. He made me so friggin' nervous that I flew right past the first stop sign.. lol.

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  12. Yep, I hear ya but, I guess that's the way it is in a society, those of us with 1/2 brain have to make up for those with none. We have similar helmet laws here including for children who ride their tricicles. My take on that is simple: ok, I can see them helping for a little kid who falls off his/her bike and hits their head on the pavement; however, tell me how that's gonna help someone who's traveling on the highway at 80 mph and hits a Mack truck head on.

    Now, back to the article (somewhat). Look at what I just spotted on the NYT

    http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/22/business/22biogenerics.html?th&emc=th

    Ha ha! Now, they're gonna start paying off the Congresswhores so that monopolies can be legislated into law (not that anybody is doing anything against them now, mind you). The last hope that we had left here with the healthcare scam were the generic drugs, now they're gonna take that away from us too.

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  13. Aaaah, if you had only known then what you know now, you would have slept him a $100 bill or showed him your boobs and you would have passed with no great effort :)

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  14. JG:

    I was on a cruise a couple of years ago (my first and my last) and remember going over to the buffet one morning and hearing this woman sneezing all over the place. Well, lo and behold, I got sick myself, high fever, achey, you name it (I never get sick, mind you). I couldn't even go to the doctor/nurse because they were charging like $60 for an Aspirin (I kid you not!) and didn't take insurance, of course. However, that was the result of people like that, spreading their germs all over the place.

    I took a food safety class in college and remember the professor talking about that, how cruiseships were breeding grounds for illnesses. Well, I'm a testament to that!

    Now, I'm staying at this hotel and went down to the breakfast room for a cup of coffee this morning and I hear this guy in the room, hacking away. I said, "oh, shit! why doesn't this guy just walk away and do that away from the food? Doesn't he know he's gonna spread germs all over and get everybody sick?" The answer is, "he doesn't care!" So, here I go again, I'll probably have whatever it is that he's spreading by the time I get home this weekend - and so will the rest of the hotel guests! There absolutely is no common sense in this country!

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  15. common sense
    isn't!

    it's bloody rare indeed.

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