Obama refused to shut down US-Mexico border after CDC and WHO issued H1N1 pandemic alert

April 1, 2020 By M. Catharine Evans

Once again, Barack Obama has opened the door to reviewing his 2009 response to what the CDC then called the "first global flu pandemic in 40 years." 

In a tweet accusing President Trump of being in denial about the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change, the former president cited an L.A. Times article on the administration's new policy to roll back Obama's 2012 environmentally friendly fuel efficiency standards.

We've seen all too terribly the consequences of those who denied warnings of a pandemic. We can't afford any more consequences of climate denial. All of us, especially young people, have to demand better of our government at every level and vote this fall.

This is rich coming from a president whose denial of the H1N1 pandemic early on may have led to tens of millions more infections and thousands more deaths than otherwise would have happened.

 During his two terms as president, Obama left our borders wide open to all kinds of infectious diseases the United States had rid itself of almost a century ago.  So looking back to April 29, 2009, a day after the CDC issued Interim Guidance on Closing Schools and Childcare Facilities, recommending a seven-day dismissal in affected schools and childcare facilities with laboratory-confirmed cases of the swine flu, it's no surprise Obama told a White House reporter, on the advice of his hourly discussions with his public health officials, that closing our southern border would be "akin to closing the barn door after the horses were out.........

The same person accusing President Trump of being in denial regarding the coronavirus continued his open border policy with Mexico throughout the year-long swine flu pandemic. The virus ended up claiming nearly 13,000 lives, including 317 children, and infecting over 60 million.

In contrast to President Trump's early travel bans to contain the virus, Barack Obama, by his own admission, refused to "close the barn door."

Chuck Todd and Nancy Pelosi have their presidents mixed up. It is 44 who has "blood on his hands" and who "fiddled" as people died ...........To Read More.....