The Dallas Morning News, and others, are reporting that the Dallas county Health Department’s Clinic will prioritize among the people who will be given the Mexican Swine Flu Vaccine. Those who will move at the head of the list will be the health care workers. That of course makes sense as they will have a high probability of being exposed.  Next in line however will be mostly minorities.

Here is where it gets funky, right after the health care workers, priority will be given to those without health insurance ,  ” the clinic is intended to offer the swine flu vaccine to people who are at the highest risk for severe illness and who have no medical insurance” (source)

Yes you’ve read it correct, those without health insurance will be given priority. A pregnant woman with health insurance will have to wait in line while an uninsured person  gets their flu vaccine. A child whose parents have health insurance will have to stand in line behind someone who doesn’t have health insurance

I don’t want to hear that you don’t want the vaccine and that it doesn’t work anyway. That’s not the damn point! Understand that that is precisely why they are starting with this becasue many of you don’t care anyway. But once liberals have implemented  a policy based on race, as this one is, and the  policy has been accepted, that’s that. They move forward form there.  Have you ever known libs to go back ? Of course not this is only the beginning. As I’ve warned you at the first tea parties, if you don’t stand up now by the time they’re done you’ll beg them to take only your money!

OK, so who are the uninsured in Dallas Texas?

Well overwhelmingly they are minorities and more specifically Hispanics. In Dallas they are probably also  illegal aliens… So  a US Citizen, that pregnant woman or that child, will get their flu vaccine once the uninsured illegal aliens get theirs. Aren’t you proud of your country?

Do you think this is propaganda? Here is the US Census Bureau report on the 2003 uninsured data

Race and Hispanic Origin

The uninsured rate did not change for blacks (about 19.5 percent) or Asians (about 18.7 percent) between 2002 and 2003. (The health insurance coverage rates of blacks and Asians were not different in 2003.) Non-Hispanics who reported white as their only race saw their uninsured rate increase from 10.7 percent to 11.1 percent.
The uninsured rate for Hispanics, who may be of any race, was 32.7 percent in 2003 — unchanged from 2002.
Based on a three-year average (2001-2003), 27.5 percent of people who reported American Indian and Alaska native as their only race were without coverage, lower than the uninsured rate for Hispanics (32.8 percent) but higher than that of the other race groups. Comparisons of two-year moving averages (2001-2002 and 2002-2003) showed that the uninsured rate for American Indians and Alaska natives did not change. source

A recent study form a the Pew Hispanic Center posted on Capitol Wire PR stated that: “Six-in-ten Hispanic adults in the U.S. who are neither citizens nor legal permanent residents* lack health insurance. In contrast, 28% of Hispanic adults who are citizens or legal permanent residents and 17% of the overall U.S. adult population lack health insurance. ” source

Now lets look at demographics of Dallas county

As of 2006 over 25% of the population of Dallas was foreign born. As of the 2005-2007 American Community Survey conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau Blacks made up 33.3% of Dallas’ population;

Hispanics and Latinos made up 42.4% of Dallas’ population. Non-Hispanic whites now represent less than one-third of the city’s population. source

From this data we can extrapolate that about 14.1 percent of the the population of Dallas county are uninsured Hispanics and 6.6 percent are uninsured blacks for a total of 20.7 percent. 20.7  percent of the entire population of Dallas county.

Whites on the other hand make up only about 3.4% of the uninsured population of Dallas county.  Understand that these figures are probably very much skewed because the Hispanic population of Dallas county is probably a lot bigger but lets go with this for now.

Even according to these figures minorities in Dallas county are more than six times more likely to get a flu vaccine than whites. But that’s OK because they are also uninsured and probably illegal!

Welcome to Obama’s post racial America.

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This past summer the great state of New York , via State Health Commissioner Richard Daines,  issued an order that all health care workers who come in contact with patients receive  the Swine Flu vaccine.
The order resulted in protests,  two lawsuits- that I know of- and a judge eventually ordered it halted.

As a sidebar lets note that NY State has no qualms about adhering to federal so called “privacy” laws when the issues is the murder of babies, after all how can anyone tell a woman what to do with her body for a few months? On the other hand NY seems to completely forget about such laws when the issue is injecting potentially deadly poisons into its citizens.

Now the Great State of New York has rescinded its mandate. No, not because the liberals who run NY- into the ground- suddenly saw the light of their unconstitutional mandate but because a bigger government bureaucracy made an even bigger screw up.   The reason that the mandate is rescinded is becasue the Obama federal government has managed the flu vaccine program so badly that  there won’t be enough vaccines and the ones that will be available won’t be available om time.

Can anyone script a mess like this?

First, New York state showing complete disregard for federal laws or the constitution,  issues an order that citizens receive a vaccine that was ,at the time,  untested and about which no one had a clue  as to its safety or efficacy.

Second, the Obama administration which has handled Mexican Swine Flu in a manner that can only be called negligent at best and criminal under normal circumstances throw’s a wrench in NY’s plans by simply not having enough vaccines to go around.

Did I miss Governor Paterson’s condemnation of the shortage of vaccines?  Of course not.  Suddenly,after spending taxpayers money on defending who knows how many law suits, the idiot liberals in Albany find out that all of it was just a colossal waste of time.

Back to the feds, how can the administration that wants to manage your entire health care program justify not having enough vaccines to stave off a pandemic when they had almost a year to prepare for this?

This administration refused to close off the borders or take any meaningful steps  to screen those who enter the country and they assured us that there would be vaccines and plenty of them and that they’d be safe. I really can’t figure out which administration id the bigger bifoon, Obama or new York’s Paterson?

One idiotic liberal administration got trumped by a bigger idiotic liberal administration. Oh yeah I can’t wait to for these nit-wits to run health care !

Now its absolutely important to understand that even the 120 million doses that were initially ordered are a complete farce!   To put that number in perspective, France a country with about five times less population than the US ordered 30% more vaccines than it has people. To match them the Obvama administration would have had to order upwards of 420 million vaccines. They ordered 120 million and will get only 40 million at best. Is this not neglect of duty? Isn’t  the government’s first priority and duty  to protect its people?

This vital announcement that a ridiculously low number of vaccines received will be available received the same national press coverage usually reserved for local newspaper stories about lost and found pets. Did anyone  expect  anything else from  the Obama state organs formerly known as the MSM ?

The reason given for the 60% reduction in the number of doses available is “delays in manufacturing and packaging“

What? Packaging? PACKAGING!!! How many of the 80 million or so vaccine shortfall  will not be available due to packaging? How many of the 90,000 fatalities that the White House predicts will fall victim to the Swine Flu will do so because of “PACKAGING!”  Is this some sort of demented sick joke or is is this the Obama administration desperately  seeking a made to order Rahm Emanuel crisis?

This White House gives almost half a trillion dollars of our money to organizations run by left wing hoodlums and they can’t spare a penny to ensure that the “packaging” of flu shots is not an issue?

If that’s not bad enough the mid September dateline for availability of the vaccine is up in smoke. Dr. Thomas Frierden Director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry stated that the vaccines won’t be available until early October. My guess is that you shouldn’t hold your breath.

On the other hand its worth noting that Britain and France already received their first batches of vaccines this past week and Australia on Friday! I am not sure how many doses made it to Marta’s Vineyard but rest assure that the important people and their families will get the vaccines. After all who the heck are you?

The first batch of swine flu vaccine has arrived in Britain. The Government confirmed today it had received about 200,000 doses from drug company Baxter. Source

Paris – France received its first batch of newly developed swine flu vaccine on Thursday, Health Minister Roselyne Bachelot said, without specifying the type of vaccine or the precise number of doses….
She would not say who supplied the vaccines, but confirmed that France had placed an order with US pharmaceutical firm Baxter, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) in Britain and Swiss group Novartis. Source

If you are worried about Ayers and other left wing terrorists and agitators, don’t they too probably got theirs already trough various community organizer channels, just like in the communist nations they hope to emulate.

At a time when  W.H.O. officials the swine flu “spreads four times faster than other viruses”  and are urging that “All governments must prepare for the worst.”  our own government is too busy stealing your money to promote socialism, is too busy trying top pass laws to stop you from accessing the internet at crucial times, is busy putting law abiding Christians and veterans on terrorist watch lists and is busy setting up the premise that whites should not get as many flu shots as minorities.

The W.H.O. further added that he most important thing in the battle against the virus was “political leadership.”! Aint that just grand! Can someone send a memo to Obama at Marxist Marta’s Vineyard?

Once again Conunderground leads the news cycle!

If you watch the news with a just a modicum of attention and know how the liberal slime seeks to permeate and manipulate the public’s consciousness its not difficult to identify its well worn pattern.

On August 18, remarks made by Boston public health officials that the swine flu seems to affect minorities more severely than whites met with little publicity and even less scrutiny. The trial balloon thus successfully launched it was time for the state media to bring out the big guns !
Echoing the observations made by Boston public health officials that the Mexican Swine Flu seems to affect minorities more than whites, AP reported yesterday that in Chicago, ” swine flu was four times more likely to send blacks and Hispanics to the hospital than whites.” Source

Boston public health officials are concerned about data showing minorities are disproportionately hospitalized for H1N1 influenza, or swine flu.
Officials reported 480 confirmed cases of swine flu statewide as of Aug. 1. Three-quarters of people hospitalized for swine flu in Boston during the spring outbreak were black or Hispanic.

Note that in typical liberal “reporting” style The AP doesn’t state that more minorities than whites are affected by the flue but only that more minorities are going to the hospital. One very possible and probable reason for this could be that whites go to their family physicians to get treatment while minorities flood the hospital emergency rooms.

No matter that these “observations” fail to meet even the slightest pretense of scientific studies , these and other idiotic empirical and anecdotal “studies” will soon will be cited to justify the distribution of the flu vaccines to favor the minority communities and away form white communities.

The now infamous presidential panel study commissioned by , of course, the White House, stated that over 90,000 people could die from this year’s swine flue. It seems that the liberals are intent to see that the vast majority of those will be whites!

Rush reported on this today, four days after Conunderground raised the initial questions of swine flu shots distribution. His conclusions however were erroneous. Rush believes this to be a plot used by the left to somehow show that minorities are underprivileged and thus more easily subject to viral infections. We at Conunderground believe that it is in fact a way to justify allocating flu shots in a disproportionately high number to minority communities!

The Council has adopted emergency measures to encourage first responders to get their flu and swine flu vaccinations.

The state is expected to get 9 million doses of the flu vaccine, which is three times the amount of last year.
Concerned that the two separate vaccines that will be needed  will stretch the system past the breaking point  the council also voted to “deputize”  dentists, pharmacists and paramedics and add them to  the list of those authorized to administer vaccines.

Yeah no kidding, if you tell everyone who has flu symptoms to stay home instead of going to the doctor sure there will be less “influenza activity”

Reas assured that once you get pat that first sentance the pictures isn’t so encouraging :

• Over 99% of all subtyped influenza A viruses being reported to CDC were novel influenza A (H1N1) viruses.
• The proportion of deaths attributed to pneumonia and influenza (P&I) was above the epidemic threshold.
• Five influenza-associated pediatric deaths were reported and four of the five deaths were associated with novel influenza A (H1N1) virus infection.

That’s absolutely unacc3ptable especially when it could have been prevented. It also happens to be what I wrote not long ago in this article

Don’t you just love the nonchalant way that the CDC makes this announcement? Oh yeah so by the way a few hundred thousands could die from a disease that we did little or nothing to stop. I really wonder if this country could survive as,  a nation, such a catastrophe?

The NY Times article from which the above is qoted aslo reassures us that “The announcement does not surprise doctors accustomed to seeing complications in the brain caused by the seasonal flu viruses that circulate every year.”

Well it sure surprises the hell out of the rest of, and if it was such a nonevent why the hell write an article about it?   This is the first I’ve heard of this happening from Swine Flu
Folks it seems that we led by the nose and fed data incrementally to slowly get us used to the idea that this will turn very ugly very fast.

Sir Liam Donaldson chief medical officer at the Department of Health, UK

UK Chief Medical Officer Liam Donaldson announced yesterday that the country estimates its death toll from Swine Flu to reach a maximum of 65,000 deaths.

Officials urged that citizens reamain calm specifing that that is the estimate for a worst case scenario. The country already has 29 fatalities.

If we extrapolate the UK data and apply to the US  taking into account population and current deaths we came up with a worst case scenario number upwards of  approximately 400,000 to half a million casualties form the Swine Flu. ( This is exactly as we wrote a few weeks ago)

Aren’t you glad that your administration dismissed our requests to immediately close the borders?

We were the first site to blow the lid off the CDC’s lies about the number of Flu casualties as well as the first to disclose that doctors had stopped testing for Swine flu ( as if there was another strain out there now ravaging the population) in this article Proof That CDC Is Lying only weeks later did the W.H.O. admit that it will stop tracking individual Swine Flu cases.

Here is the article from Bloomberg

The agency posted the announcement on its website, saying that it would no longer report the number of confirmed cases in all countries restricting their reports to only  newly affected countries in order to track and document the pandemic.

In places where the virus is spreading widely, counting cases and confirming them with tests have become extremely difficult, if not impossible, according to the WHO statement.  We might note here that the United States is just such a place.

The WHO said that counting individual cases is no longer essential for those countries to monitor the risk of infection or to implement responses. It also helps the pol;iticians responsible for not protecting their population to cover up the real data. Look for the Obama administration to follow suit and no longer report the number of individual  cases.