Here is another topic that seems to have disappeared out of the Wiki Index so will start a new one for this site.
Was just thinking to myself on the way home from the city the other day with temperatures in the −30 Deg. C. range and the wind chill at −40 that a mass evacuation from the city’s to the country with no place to go would likely get a lot of people killed. When their gas ran out and they had no place to go they would freeze solid in no time so I hope people located in an area which gets winter conditions reconsider evauation unless they have prepared a place to go to.
mass evacuation as a policy solution to a panflu epidemic will fail as miserably as it would do for nuclear war survival, and for many of the same reasons; the people aren’t ready, the infrastructure isn’t ready, and it won’t be started until it’s too late.
Now, individual evacuation is a different thing altogether.
Just thought this little bit from the news thread was interesting - re India/Sri Lanka whatever it is that is going on over there:- Reports from India have described panic as hundreds of thousands of people have fled Surat, a city of 1.6 million.
Confirms our belief that people will leave cities in droves if the ‘bad’ comes!
Please provide the link to the Surat news — I can’t find it on the new fluwikie ? ? ? ? ? ? Thank you.
Sorry CCJ - it was on Dec 3 News thread OLD YELLER - — 03 December 2006, 15:51 Excerpt from article “U.S. To Monitor Airports to Find Any Plague Carriers” in the New York Times.
Dr. Torrigiani said W.H.O. has confidence in statements from the Indian Government that it is taking all necessary steps to control the epidemic. But the agency “does not have exact information of what is going on in India,” he added in an interview.
Plague is caused by a bacterium, Yersinia pestis. Last week, Federal health officials sent to India through the World Health Organization the reagents that are needed to detect the bacterium in a laboratory, Dr. Gubler said. The United States is prepared to send experts in diagnosing and controlling plague if India requests such aid, and a team could be readied in a day or two.
Dr. Gubler said his team had also sent materials on the control of plague to doctors in Surat who had requested such information.
He said there was concern about simultaneous epidemics of plague and a mosquito-borne viral infection known as dengue hemorrhagic fever. If both diseases break out at the same time, many cases of one might be erroneously attributed to the other, adding to confusion about the extent of the epidemic, Dr. Gubler said.
Reports from India have described panic as hundreds of thousands of people have fled Surat, a city of 1.6 million
Dr. Gubler said that in stepping up their monitoring, Federal officials did not want to create more panic. “At this stage, there is probably more danger from the panic than from the plague,” he said.
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The date on that story was 1994, another case of NewsNow rereporting.
cactus 11:48 and gharris 11:22
Thank you both. I was surprised this story didn’t get more coverage today.