1 posted on
08/26/2006 6:43:11 PM PDT by
blam
To: Smokin' Joe; LucyT
2 posted on
08/26/2006 6:43:47 PM PDT by
blam
To: blam
If a bird flu pandemic were to strike the United States, the usual characters would of course appear on television to tell us how we're ignoring the minorities who are being crushed by it.
It is the most frightening thing that no preparation can possibly occur in the United States because any action taken will be seen through the tint of politics. Make preparations for a million people to be in a tent city? Those are Republican re-education camps.
4 posted on
08/26/2006 7:10:57 PM PDT by
kingu
(No, I don't use sarcasm tags - it confuses people.)
To: blam
Only four died in Turkey? I thought it was more than that. But my memory ain't so good.
To: blam; All
Crosslinked to:
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8 posted on
08/27/2006 1:41:28 AM PDT by
backhoe
(Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, Ridin' the Trakball into the Dawn of Information)
To: 2ndreconmarine; Fitzcarraldo; Covenantor; Mother Abigail; EBH; Dog Gone; ...
9 posted on
08/27/2006 4:37:27 AM PDT by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
To: blam
11 posted on
08/27/2006 4:55:34 AM PDT by
Gritty
(It’s not that high-tech medicine doesn’t exist, but that it won’t be available – Dr M Osterholm)
To: blam
I read a report in 2003 the U.S. planned a similar response. Hospitals would be quickly overwhelmed. Most people would be left on their own.
12 posted on
08/27/2006 5:05:51 AM PDT by
ex-Texan
(Mathew 7: 1 - 6)
To: blam
....doctors might have to deny treatment to the sick and elderly to save younger, fitter patients.If this nation flings open its doors to anyone, it ought to be Europe's elderly and/or infirm.
15 posted on
08/27/2006 8:40:04 AM PDT by
mewzilla
(Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
To: blam
Triage.
In other words, prepare to take care our your own, because the government probably won't be able to.
17 posted on
08/27/2006 9:52:24 AM PDT by
redgolum
("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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