Rom Emanuel said, “Never let a crisis go to waste.” So, we can fully expect the Swine Flu which has killed less people in the past week than people falling out of Indonesian Apricot trees, to be the launching pad of Healthcare reform. I don’t know for sure if there is such a tree, but I am confident, if there is, people could have fallen to their deaths stealing it’s succulent fruit. It still remains that we are being led to believe that we are one alarm shy of being fat and center (didn’t want to use dead center, too macabre) of a global Pandemic. Obama’s team is assembled and the pieces are falling into place. All we need is fear. And lots of it.

For nearly a week the media, which incidentally happened to overwhelmingly support, ehem, Mr. Obama, have been steadily ramping up it’s efforts to grind into our impressionable simple minds that the Swine Flu is scary. Very scary. Flights to Mexico have been diverted, cruise ship’s re-routed, travelers canceling long time vacation plans and Chinese paper mask manufacturers have started hiring by the thousands, are all the result of the media’s relentless attack. It was today when we had the first, let me repeat, t-h-e first death in the U.S. It doesn’t matter they were in the U.S. from Mexico to seek medical attention. It only matters it happened HERE! Run! We’re all going to DIE!!!

The message may be subliminal but it’s there. All this hype is meant to let people know that just like the economic crisis, only the government can protect us. They are the only ones big enough to produce enough vaccine to save American from certain death. Or, at least the 2 or 3 who may be in danger. They are the only ones with enough resources to organize treatment for masses of scared sheep flocking to get the cure. They are the only ones who can speak to a nation to instill calm and reassurance during a time of such crisis. Yet, so far the best they have done for us is to tell us to wash our hands and if we feel sick, stay home. Wash my hands? Done! Now what all mighty and knowing government?

We are being led down a dark and precarious path where our government has unilaterally decided we the American people are too stupid, too weak and too poor to fend for ourselves. This crisis will undoubtedly lead to universal healthcare. Thusly, just as we will be told the type of cars we like and can drive, how much employees should be paid and when we can use our government ration of electricity, we will also be at their whim for all our medical decisions. Imagine the implications of such a change.

Who will get cancer treatment? If you’re too old or too sick, will you be told to go home and die so someone else younger or with a higher social status can have the bed? Universal healthcare is nothing more than Socialized medicine. Rationing and typical government red tape hindering Doctors who will be paid by the government will be dictated to as to the types of treatment to render and who to treat will be rampant. Politicians running anything is scary enough, but when they politicize our healthcare, now that’s is scary.

So, get ready as Obama heeds the drum beat of his buddy Rom and launches the biggest missile in his Socialist arsenal and drops it square on us all. The Swine Flu is an inane if not innocuous virus. But the media, still in their euphoric state of seeing their man in the White House is in bed with him and are complicit in making us all believe it is more, much more. Simplify all the hype and read into the message being conveyed. Yes, people are sick, but even the White House has said, just wash your hands. More importantly, do not climb Indonesian Apricot trees.