I agree with you A.Hun, but I can't believe this bird flu is it. We've heard sob stories and fright stories about it for several years, yet, compared to the amount of fear mongering, not many have died.
Sounds like a way for the affected countries to receive some sort of, I don't know FUNDING to "help" stamp this out before it..GASP! Arrives here in the USA
Nope. Someone has been promised money for something, some politico has found a way to get them the money thru this false threat. It just smells.
If the Black Plague returned, politicians, statist regimes, and powermongers of every stripe would be angling for ways to cash in on it, use it to consolidate their power, and so forth. But none of that would be evidence that the disease itself was anything to scoff.
When things get crazy corrupt, it's easy to mix cause and effect, and it's easier to cynically dismiss all threats. This is not wise.
Well put, and I also cannot know that the bird flu is going to be the pandemic....I worry about it because avian flu is particularly suited to jump to humans.
I don't suggest anyone freaking out, but it is smart to respect the possible danger. Anything one does to protect themselves from bird flu applies to biological attacks as well, and that is definitely a threat.
Another good point. OK we have a threat of a pandemic. More likely it will be thru some bio agent brought in by radical islam - whether or not that will be "bird flu", I don't know.
That IS one threat that I do not dismiss. The threat that radical islam will raise its evil, ugly head in this country. Yet, this is the one THREAT the Government would send us all through "sensitivity training" for so we don't worry about it.
When this countries politicos quit kow towing to the likes of CAIR, and quit telling me that islam is a peaceful religion, and quit sending TSA employees through sensitivity training, THEN - and only THEN will I believe them about a supposed bird flu.
But that's just me.