The emergency declaration, signed by the president late Friday, enhances the ability of medical treatment facilities to handle a spike in influenza A(H1N1) patients by allowing them to implement emergency plans thanks to federal requirement waivers.

Originally posted by pluckynoonez

Originally posted by slyce
Declaring a national emergency opens the door for mandatory vaccinations and quarantines.

We are in big trouble folks.

Um, hello, that is why I said "so it beings...." We are all doomed. THis doom is as fresh as can be, so much so that I am going to be sick, but in a good way, as in I-just-got--the -seasonal-flu-and-the-test-for-the-swine-flu-is-worthless-so-I-am-now-going-to-fight-going-to-quarantine kind of sick.

The National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601-1651) eliminated or modified some
statutory grants of emergency authority, required the President to declare formally the
existence of a national emergency and to specify what statutory authority, activated
by the declaration, would be used, and provided Congress a means to countermand
the President’s declaration and the activated authority being sought. The
development of this regulatory statute and subsequent declarations of national
emergency are reviewed in this report, which is updated as events require.

The White House on Saturday said Obama signed a proclamation that would allow medical officials to bypass certain federal requirements. Officials described the move as similar to a declaration ahead of a hurricane making landfall.