scariest e-mail ever So, I am on the Belgrade US Embassy’s e-mail list. When I get a message from them, it is never good news: “stay away from rallies… or certain splavovi.”
(Was it my imagination, or is the entry on H5N1 in the Serbian-language Wikipedia a lot less complete than the english one?)
I’m fairly sure we will have pandemic, so, I don’t find the e-mails scary, just overly delayed…
and if the govt still thinks it is best not to tell the public to stock up for disruptions until they can’t avoid telling them - that angle is chilling, I admit.
:-(
At least the message is now consistant across the warden system.
If you’re on foreign station, prepare for 12 weeks of SIP.
I still happen to think that’s VERY significant.
Of course our supply chains and security situations are just as fragile here in the US…
(yes, I’m rolling my eyes…)
Can’t interrupt holiday shopping season to tell the public they’re going to be so out of luck during a pandemic influenza year…
Bird Guano – at 03:22 At least the message is now consistant across the warden system.
If you’re on foreign station, prepare for 12 weeks of SIP.
I still happen to think that’s VERY significant.
So do I, and I think it is an indication something is afoot.
They don’t send out this kind of email without cause. (And usually a very particular one). Warden emails are sent out in reaction to specific near-term threats. They are not grandmotherly greeting cards expressing generalized worry and concern for the embassies’ charges.
I don’t think they’d pull this trigger until they thought they had to.
Pixie – at 08:52
Can’t help but agree, Pixie. Despite the recent slowdown of the news (some have actually been speculating that ‘we dodged a bullet’ in Indo), the hope of Peramivir being at least part of a migation strategy, and many ‘mystery’ illnesses being defined as chik or dengue (or recently cerebral malaria) I’m not at all convinced.
No, not a chance they’d pull this trigger unless they thought they had to.
My husband is supposed to be in Belgrade & over to Vienna in about 12 wks. Not the best timing, to put it mildly. Thanks so much for posting this; we will be watching it closely and reconsidering his travel plans (I already was, lol).
K from MI - I’m sure you’ll post anything else you hear from Belgrade on the forum, but just in case could you also let me know? I’m at petticoat.junction at yahoo dot com. Thanks so much.
What is “splavovi” ?
Petticoat Junction and Green Mom, I’ll post if I find anything else concerning Belgrade. I’m not the recipient of the warden message from Belgrade, I was just passing on a blog from Rachel in Belgrade. My best guess of “splavovi” would be some sort of demonstration.
Pixie at 0852
re:” Warden emails are sent out in reaction to specific near-term threats.”
can you clarify please how you know that these are reactions to near-term threats?(which I interpret to mean near-at-hand events)
The text referred to above is from “How to prepare for ‘sheltering-in-place’”, which is on the US Department of State website at: