wow, this one isnt pulling any punches!
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The Price We Pay
Upon this gifted age, in its dark hour,
Rains from the sky a meteoric shower
Of facts....They lie unquestioned, uncombined.
Wisdom enough to leech us of our ill
Is daily spun, but there exists no loom
To weave it into fabric..
Edna St. Vincent Millay "Huntsman, What Quarry"
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How can anyone read this and not want to prep? - unless they follow an "eat, drink, & be merry, for tomorrow we may die" philosophy.
."The next major advancement in the health of American people will be determined by what the individual is willing to do for himself"-- John Knowles, Former President of the Rockefeller Foundation
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Originally posted by AlaskaDeniseHow can anyone read this and not want to prep? - unless they follow an "eat, drink, & be merry, for tomorrow we may die" philosophy.
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Between 9/11, Iraq, and Katrina...the public willingness to deal with a coming disaster that will make them all insignificant by comparison--just isnt there.
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Originally posted by 4-ABBA....Between 9/11, Iraq, and Katrina...the public willingness to deal with a coming disaster that will make them all insignificant by comparison--just isnt there.
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Originally posted by Laidback AlThe events you mentioned are all localized events that most of the world watched on TV. It did not directly affect those TV watchers. There is a disbelief that there could be a worldwide calamity in this day and age. We have to look back to World War II and maybe even further back to the 1918 pandemic to find an event that had worldwide impacts. Its seems that every couple of generations, the world has to relearn old lessons.
I recall as a child the air raid drills in elementary school. We had many of them. (I lived in Los Angeles--a certain target.) The air raid drills were frightenng. I was young--but I knew even my parents were frightened. So was our teacher.
We need to be frightened--enough to seek a shelter. In that sense--'we the people' need to be "panicked".
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My post is redundant with
http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/sho...ed=1#post50893 but also fits here.
I happened to hear Dr. Greger speak tonight on the University of Florida campus. Overall he gave an outstanding presentation with emphasis on shelter in place preparedness and hygiene in addition to changes in the way we use farm poultry. I am sure any of us could find points of differences with his thesis but overall I believe he has made a substantive contribution to the preparedness effort.
I note in a quick perusal that he mentions fluwiki http://birdflubook.com/a.php?id=88
Each individual community is responsible for preparing its own pandemic plan; preparation begins with each family, each circle of friends, each neighborhood, each business, each township. To this end, a fledgling ?experiment in collaborative problem solving in public health? was launched called The Flu Wiki, available free for anyone to use at www.fluwikie.com, whose explicit purpose is to help local communities prepare for and cope with a pandemic outbreak. It is based on the ?wikipedia? model of nonprofit, internet-based collaboration to share knowledge and ideas from around the world. Its success depends on the level and quality of public participation.
JTThought has a dual purpose in ethics: to affirm life, and to lead from ethical impulses to a rational course of action - Teaching Reverence for Life -Albert Schweitzer. JT
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