No one is dropping the ball. Remember: Never waste a good crisis. There is already “talk” that this “pandemic” will help Obama in his quest for Government Health Care.
Plus...if this IS the “big One”, then people will be looking toward the government to save them.
Perfect storm really. Crashing economy, viral pandemic...all they need now is some sort of “accident”.
I don’t beleive for a moment that 9/11 was an inside job, but President Bush did make use of it to move on Iraq (for good or for bad).
In Lord Zero’s speech today he opened with comments about how this flu is a good example of why we need more money to fund research.