Politicians are NOT Public Health Officials, But They Try to Play Them on TV!
After Vice President Joseph Biden's gaffe last week when he appeared on the Today Show about not taking public transportation such as subways and airplanes out of concern for being in confined spaces due to the swine flu, he's making up for it now.
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According to the L.A. Times Top of the Ticket blog, the V.P. proudly hopped on the Amtrak train in Wilmington this morning to show his confidence for riding in small, confined spaces. Biden, known to be a religious train rider for his 36 years in the Senate, obviously isn't going to let swine flu get him down, his comments about subways and airplanes not withstanding.
Of course, public health officials from the CDC and even the White House Press Secretary scrambled to reassure Americans that it is more than okay to take public transportation and that isolation is only necessary if one has flu symptoms.
My advice: let the public health officials give the advice about swine flu isolation and let the V.P. keep to foreign affairs and other matters of state. Otherwise, we'll all be scared to be on the Amtrak next to Vice President Biden!
Summer Johnson, PhD
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