What’s in a name? at Texas League of the South

In 1918 a flu epidemic swept the nation and the world. In that epidemic, between 20 and 100 million people died. At that time the flu was known as the Spanish flu due to its initial outbreak in Spain. The latest flu is being called “swine flu”. Some scientists are objecting to this label since it is not primarily a swine based virus, nor is it caught from eating pork. If the old common sense nomenclature were used, it would be called the “Mexican Flu”. I suspect that the powers that be do not refer to the Mexican flu with those terms due to political correctness and the ramifications that action would have to be taken at the border to prevent its spread. Despite the ramifications, some parties in other parts of the world have more cajones than the present administration and are already calling it the Mexican flu.

One of the best articles I have seen on the matter is the one done by Dr. Ron Paul. He addresses concerns about how the government is not a physician and needs to stay out of the medical field. The nanny government wants to make our medical decisions, safety decisions, economic decisions, etc., all without our permission in “our own best interest”. At that time, more Americans died from the vaccinations than from the flu itself. If that was the state of affairs then, can you imagine the mass vaccination they are talking about now? If programs like the one touted in Gillespe County where they brag that the whole county can be vaccinated were implemented, can you imagine the loss of life? The government was wrong in 1976 about all the dangers of the swine flu at that time and we will see if things are better now.

Meanwhile, behind the curtain, CONgress is preparing to vote on the administrations huge budget. They are finding ways to avoid having floor debates and to ramrod the package through, including healthcare concerns. Government healthcare was bad before Obama took office, and only stands to get worse.

Liberty for Texas and the South!

J Murrah