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MikeWaters · 09-17-2005, 05:25 PM

http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/Inve...1130392&page=1

I feel a little like the guy holding the sign "the end of the world is coming", given that I mention this every once in a while.

This is very, very scary. This qualifies as a situation where if you are not prepared, it will be like having not gotten onto the ark.

America, under Bush and Leavitt, is among the least prepared countries. We have secured enough medication to treat less than 1% of our citizens. Scary.

SoCalCoug · 09-17-2005, 09:23 PM

My biggest beef with Bush is that he seems much less concerned with domestic problems than in what advances can be made overseas. I don't know his agenda, but I don't think caring for his citizens is at the top.

Archaea · 09-18-2005, 04:27 AM

you're just reading the press who hates him.

Show any spending projects he's vetoed. You won't find any.

bigpiney · 09-19-2005, 03:46 PM

I read the book 'The Great Influenza' about the flu epidemic during WWI. It was a great read, but got me worried if the flu does another mutation like that.

AIDS is nothing if bird flu gets going. That is some scary stuff. People were dead within 72 hours of contact. The healthier you were before hand the worse it hit you because your body killed itself in fighting back. It also did help that at the time most people lived in suck close quarters, (army barracks, the big cities).

MikeWaters · 04-27-2009, 03:50 AM

bump

09-17-2005, 05:25 PM	#1
MikeWaters Demiurge Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 36,365	The coming flu pandemic http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/Inve...1130392&page=1 I feel a little like the guy holding the sign "the end of the world is coming", given that I mention this every once in a while. This is very, very scary. This qualifies as a situation where if you are not prepared, it will be like having not gotten onto the ark. America, under Bush and Leavitt, is among the least prepared countries. We have secured enough medication to treat less than 1% of our citizens. Scary.

09-17-2005, 09:23 PM	#2
SoCalCoug Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Orange County, California Posts: 3,059	My biggest beef with Bush is that he seems much less concerned with domestic problems than in what advances can be made overseas. I don't know his agenda, but I don't think caring for his citizens is at the top. __________________ Get your stinking paws off me, you damned, dirty Yewt! "Now perhaps as I spanked myself screaming out "Kozlowski, say it like you mean it bitch!" might have been out of line, but such was the mood." - Goatnapper "If you want to fatten a pig up to make the pig MORE delicious, you can feed it almost anything. Seriously. The pig is like the car on Back to the Future. You put in garbage, and out comes something magical!" - Cali Coug

09-18-2005, 04:27 AM	#3
Archaea Assistant to the Regional Manager Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: The Orgasmatron Posts: 24,338	Domestically, he acts like a Democrat you're just reading the press who hates him. Show any spending projects he's vetoed. You won't find any. __________________ Ἓν οἶδα ὅτι οὐδὲν οἶδα

09-19-2005, 03:46 PM	#4
bigpiney Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Big Pine , CA Posts: 842	I read the book 'The Great Influenza' about the flu epidemic during WWI. It was a great read, but got me worried if the flu does another mutation like that. AIDS is nothing if bird flu gets going. That is some scary stuff. People were dead within 72 hours of contact. The healthier you were before hand the worse it hit you because your body killed itself in fighting back. It also did help that at the time most people lived in suck close quarters, (army barracks, the big cities).

04-27-2009, 03:50 AM	#5
MikeWaters Demiurge Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 36,365	bump