Posted on 05/09/2006 4:51:12 PM PDT by Momaw Nadon
This movie says that if the Avian flu hits the US it will be like like having a Hurricane Katrina in every city. Remember when Michael Chertoff was mocked for attending a meeting about Avian Flu shortly after Katrina hit?
This is not very good filmmaking. They've skipped ahead to week four already.
Also, there's been an anti-conservative dig already: "this administration believes those (precautions) are better handled at the local level."
"You're cutting them off from their humanity which is the one thing that's gonna get us through this pandemic."
Good grief.
You forgot to mention Y2K and SARS! I'm still holed up in my dank, filthy apartment, afraid to leave for fear of more such unspeakable calamities.</sarc>
Russians poured into the streets to protest a ban on public gatherings. LOL
This is dreadful filmmaking.
I haven't watched ABC in a long long time....now I remember why.
I noticed that, too.
Thank heavens there's a webpage which presents some facts.
ABC TV Movie: Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America
On Tuesday, May 9 at 8 p.m., the ABC television network will air a made-for-TV movie titled "Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America." The movie follows an outbreak of the H5N1 avian flu virus from its origins in a Hong Kong market through its mutation into a pandemic virus that becomes easily transmittable from human to human and spreads rapidly around the world.The Department of Health and Human Services has prepared a Viewer's Guide and some anticipated Questions and Answers to provide factual information for viewers of the movie.
From what I have read about the potential for this particular flu to go human-to-human, which it hasn't done yet.... this movie is pretty accurate, trying to cover how it actually could be.
Anyone who isn't prepared, in the event that it does, is counting on hope. Just my humble opinion, of course.
I too have some information for viewers of the movie:
The writer was not given time to revise his first draft.
Yeah, I think I'll miss this one.
Note to self: start stockpiling liquor and cigarettes in case they fence up neigborhood...
They should have hired the BBC. Nobody does apocalypse telepics better.
I hope they consider one or two optimistic possibilities. Here's one...
In reconstructing the 1918 influenza virus, researchers learned which genes were responsible for making the virus so harmful. This is an important advance for preparedness efforts because knowing which genes are responsible for causing severe illness helps scientists develop new drugs and vaccines (e.g., they can focus their research on those genes).October 6, 2005: Researchers Reconstruct 1918 Pandemic Influenza Virus; Effort Designed To Advance Preparedness
perhaps you do not how how difficult it would be to manufacture a vaccine in the quantity needed in time to protect everyone.... there is no way they can figure out what exact vaccine will work until it goes pandemic, alas...
Who says it needs to be pandemic before we determine which vaccine to develop?
Not everyone needs to be vaccinated in order to help control the spread.
because they will need the exact virus as it mutates into a human to human form in order to make a vaccine that will protect people. It is not pandemic yet, so making a vaccine for the "bird" form of the virus will not protect people.
There are some good websites on this, I will look up the links for you, and post them in a few minutes...
http://www.curevents.com/vb/forumdisplay.php?f=40
http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/index.php
http://www.recombinomics.com/whats_new.html
http://www.fluwikie.com/index.php?n=Forum.Forum
http://www.avianflutalk.com/default.asp
You're probably right.............however not in the manner in which you think.
When this virus hits the US - and it will the first casualty is going to be the economy. It will start small, first where local economies rely on the poultry industry, like where I live, and then it will start to spread.
Even if it never mutates to a H2H strain, the economic impacts will be widespread........but alas no one around here seems to give a hoot about that.
Wake up people - it has to hit birds first........the first line of defense against this going H2H is the commercial poultry industry.
I suggest if you enjoy chicken on a regular basis and have the room that you start stocking up now. When avian flu hits the US huge numbers of chickens are going to be destroyed.......initially the price will drop and then it will skyrocket because supply will be so low.
I have no financial ties to the poultry industry, but live in an area where many people, including some very close friends, rely on it for their livelihoods. We don't take this threat as a joke around here.
I'm right about the BBC, but not the way I think I am? I'm confused.
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