Bttt!
Another UN BS Organization
Resurrecting my little ping list.
(blam or backhoe - if it wasn't you, sorry. For some reason backhoe and blam reverse themselves in my brain.)
One of the biggest problems with the information surrounding this virus, is that major headcases go on talk shows and rant and rave about how we are not ready to handle this, site Katrina, then idiotically forget (deliberately?) that Katrina was a state issue supposed to be handled by the governor, who was too incompetent.
The Real Flu Ping list.
Ta da.
The only thing the author got right was that we cannot expect WHO to control this disease, let alone prevent it.
Where he errs most greatly is in his grand assumption that every instance where close members are stricken by the present and recent strains of this virus passed it from member to member; were that so, then it would have already spread beyond those small groups to larger groups and we have not seen this.
For whatever reason, there seems to be a large and influential clique of alarmists intent on hyping this potentional pandemic as though their very careers depend on it, perhaps they do.
Dr. Angus Nicoll has a long and continuing history of hyping the heterosexual spread of AIDS, especially among the affected African communities.
>>Semper Fi<<
Oddly enough I have recently been retained in a technical assignment related to bird flu. I don't know what you are reading but everybody from the CDC to the government of China is taking this more seriously.
Is the U.N. behind the curve? Of course they are - they are the U.N. but fortunately the U.S. does not depend on the U.N. for health care info.
Now, that said, some countries that are problems, like China like to minimize internal health issues - but RELATIVELY, this potential threat is being taken more seriously and handled better than previous, similar threats.