Avian Flu: Is the Government Ready for an Epidemic?

ABC News ^ | September 15, 2005

[hombre_sincero]

It took the U.S. MEDIA long enough to get to this ....

reverse time line (newest to oldest the past 1 1/2 months)

• Medical - The Balkans - Pandemic Gateway to Europe - Friday, August 26, 2005
• Medical - From Hitler's Rockets to Islam's Bombs - now HN51 Virus - Thursday, August 25, 2005
• Medical - France - No Surrender to HN51 - Thursday, August 25, 2005
• Medical - EU facing HN51 Pandemic Threat - Thursday, August 25, 2005
• Medical - Russia Battling HN51 from China - Thursday, August 25, 2005
• Medical - Ebola - Avian Flu - Swine Flu - Saturday, July 30, 2005
• Medical - U.S. Pandemic Plan for Avian Flu - Sunday, July 24, 2005
• Medical - W.H.O. Flu Warning - Friday, July 22, 2005
• Medical - Stage-6 Pandemic in Communist China - Friday, July 22, 2005

[Solamente]

Bring it on! There's nothing good on TV anyway.

[Cougar66]

If you read "The Stand", then you know we arent ready.

[RadioAstronomer]

ping

[Cougar66]

This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang, but a wimper.
- T. S. Eliot

[302damnfast]

Nice ping list there. We better let Mother Abigail know. I guess she already does, though, considering...

As if it isn't scary enough...two Stand references in one thread! :(

Good luck sleeping tonight! :(

[hombre_sincero]

"two Stand references" ??

[Blzbba]

"Ready for an Epidemic?, hombre_sincero wrote:
"two Stand references" ??"



Posts 4 & 6.

[Blzbba]

Seasons don't fear the reaper.

[302damnfast]

Mother Abigail is a character in 'The Stand' and is the 1st on your ping list, which was far spookier to me than any of the others. :)

[Sender]

Captain Trips, man. I can kill it with habaneros, vodka and aspirin. Trust me on this one.

[Cougar66]

[softwarecreator]

Mother Abigail is a character in 'The Stand' and is the 1st on your ping list

Isn't their another freeper with the name Randalflagg?

If they were both on his ping list I'd be duct taping my house and staying indoors.  =)

[302damnfast]

Well, the software only allows us to see the first few...Defintely stockpiling the duct tape and plastic here...

[Judith Anne]

Thanks for the ping. I had heard that the ABC program was fairly accurate.

[302damnfast]

My bad! Looking back, the ping list wasn't yours. Take my first post to you and remove 'your ping list' and replace it with 'the other guy's ping list' and we're all square. :)

[Wally_Kalbacken]

My thought is that the lesson of the Hurricane Katrina debacle is that the stupidity of large numbers of people will obstruct the best planned emergency procedures. In Katrina it was the failure of the City of New Orleans to even make an effort to get approximately 80,000 people out of the city. Then it was people crawling into their attics, others looting and rampaging, etc. The New Orleans situation was not the best example of planning, and it was surely the worst example of execution.

Rather than expect that there is some lesson to be drawn which will allow an H5N1 breakout to be handled well - I'd suggest that Katrina's aftermath provides the lesson that one should buy a handgun and some ammunition and learn how to use them, stockpile some emergency supplies and also coordinate a plan for family to meet at some pre-arranged location should communications be broken.

[spinestein]

Within the next few decades or even a hundred years, there will be YET ANOTHER worldwide flu pandemic just like all the ones that have come in the past, from time to time.

There will be tens of millions of people killed and there is nothing that we can do about it except stay secluded and don't see anybody who's infected until it passes.

But people will still complain that the government failed to do its job to keep everybody safe.