30 October 2006
Bronco Bill – at 12:19
clark – at 13:42
I look upon the potential pandemic flu the same way I look at AIDS. Once everybody understood the AIDS virus, it was readily avoidable. Until the penny dropped, AIDS was the “wrath of God etc etc”.
IF H5N1 goes pandemic, within 3 to 6 months, the general community will have figured H5N1 out as well. The flu is a virus, not a black curse from outer space. I plan to keep my mouth shut in my local community. I did all of my letters to the editor months ago.
WE have monster log trucks barrelling threw my town everyday. I have easily mangaed to avoid them all of these years, without too much thought. I can avoid a flu virus if I put my mind and the mind of my kids, to the task. If we don’t, it is just bad luck or bad judgement
I am not afraid of looters etc- I plan to have a very low profile. Having visited and lived on a few communes in my time, I can tell you “community” is the last thing I am going to be seeking under the circumstances. This is not a hollywood disaster movie. If Rambo charges at this enemy (H5N1) with a grenade launcher in one hand and an Uzi in the other, he won’t get 10 feet before he is shot down, stone cold dead.
After 6 months or so of pandemic, during a lull, would be a good time to be seeking out others. People who have managed to survive the first 6 months of a pandemic would have some real skills- and will have proved it.