Again, are we being set up by Washington complacency again??
Well, if Tamiflu doesn't work, it's not really complacency that's at issue.
If Tamiflu worked, then we could stockpile it, and in fact, I think we are trying to do that.
But with this info, the only other thing would be a vaccine, but a vaccine can't be developed ahead of time since at this point the flu has not mutated to a strain that can be caught "person to person."
Of course once it does mutate to that point, then you can bet everybody will be working on a vaccine, but it really won't do much good because it takes a while to develop it, produce it and distribute it.
A pandemic flu of a new strain is not really something we can prevent, but rather something we might be able to manage if we have plans in place for quarantine, etc.