The US is closing schools if there are suspected cases of swine flu, and Mexico has closed every public gathering place, from government offices to restaurants. We're at a level 5 pandemic alert. So why are people harping on Biden's comments? He said exactly what everyone else is saying, including Obama - don't travel if you don't have to, especially to Mexico, and avoid large gatherings of people if you can. This isn't particularly new or controvertial.
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And Diamond Joe is full of hilarious gaffes. And yes, going on air and whipping people into a frenzy (because that's what happens when you're a politician and you go on air to tell everyone that airplanes are essentially disease death traps) over this "pandemic" that has killed 3.33333333 × 10-8 percent of the global population counts as a gaffe.
Still, whoever is in power can't win - if they go to all the trouble to prevent the disease, people say they're blowing things out of proportion, but if they don't do anything and it spreads, then they get blamed for not doing enough. I'd rather they err on the side of caution in this particular case, and I think they're doing a pretty damned good job, IMHO.