[E. Pluribus Unum]

There may be a pandemic coming, but it won't be anything we see coming.

They were saying all these same things about swine flu in i977.

If avian flu was going to do it, it would have happened already, and it would have happened so fast that nobody would even know what it was until after it was over.

[Cornpone]

"There may be a pandemic coming, but it won't be anything we see coming."

See my post #62. What do you mean we won't see it coming? They're telling us already. I worked in Seoul, Korea a few years ago. I love Korea, I love Seoul and I love the Korean people but things over there are not like the rest of the world...at least as we know it. And I'm sure they are horribly worse in China, Thailand and other Asian countries. At street level Seoul looks just about like any modern city. But when you go to the top of a 30 story building and can see what is going on from above, when you can see what is behind the walls and in the alleys, there is no doubt that it is a breeding ground for animal to human disease transmission.

[John Valentine]

If avian flu was going to do it, it would have happened already,

How do you know this? It seems to me that you would need to have be omniscient. Are you God?

and it would have happened so fast that nobody would even know what it was until after it was over.

You have this part nearly right, but you can't logically say that because it hasn't happened yet, it won't.