Like apparently most of the world, I ignored much of the stories about Asian Bird Flu. "Ahh, that's halfway around the world in villages where chickens run around the house..." John Cole had a post the other day, and I scrolled right past it. But exploring a new site today (Rck Moran's Right Wing Nut House) I found his post "The Coming Catastrophe" disturbing, if not frightening. The original Washington Post story they each refer to is here.
Is this real or the next Y2K? I hope they are wrong...
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Yikes! Half of me wants to think the whole thing is crazy and half of me wants to stop by the grocery store on my way home to stock up! I can't even imagine this...We probably shrug off ideas like these b/c very few people living today were alive for the last pandemic. So it feels so "impossible" or overstated. Like an epsiode of The Twilight Zone or The X Files or something. And we probably feel far too confident in our healthcare system's ability to handle something call "flu." Maybe they should have given it a different name--like including the word flu is too "everyday," too familiar to incite any real alarm on our part...Just pray this thing doesn't happen. Yo' Sista'
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