Grim Reaper Finds U.S. Swine Flu Preparations Adequate

August 25, 2009 (LPAC)—The White House enlisted its own Council of Advisors on Science and Technology to issue an August 24th report praising U.S. preparations for the expected surge in swine flu cases this fall. If there is any contradiction in the fact that the Council's chairman is John Holdren, the Paul Ehrlich-trained population fanatic, the President seems not to have noticed. But then, he has other problems.

The report discusses scenarios for from 30% to 50% of the population catching the flu, and puts out the usual pabulum about improving emergency preparedness and speeding up availability of flu vaccine. The report called for accelerating availability of initial doses to mid-September, although Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius spoke on Monday of mid-October as an earliest possible date for the first of the totally inadequate planned run of 40 million doses.

The President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology report speaks of the possibility of 1.8 million hospitalizations and as many as 90,000 deaths in a worst-case scenario. If such goals are not met, it shall be no fault of the Obama Administration. They are doing just about everything possible to accelerate the economic conditions which can turn a mild pandemic into a deadly one.

Too bad the Cash for Clunkers program worked out so poorly. Has any of his genius economic advisors thought yet of Cash for Caskets?